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- From: mycroft@dorsai.com (Keith Kushner)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Re: The real Dan Quayle
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.112315.23914@dorsai.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 11:23:15 GMT
- References: <D2150056.ir917o@erics.infoserv.com>
- Organization: The Dorsai Embassy +1.718.729.5018
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- erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith) writes:
- :
- : Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potatoe,' how's it spelled?
- : You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go... all right!
- : -- Vice President Dan Quayle correcting a student's
- : correct spelling of the word "potato" during
- : a spelling bee at an elementary school in Trenton.
- :
- : I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But
- : as Mark Twain once said, "You should never trust a man who has only
- : one way to spell a word."
- : -- Vice President Dan Quayle, actually quoting from
- : President Andrew Jackson.
- :
- : I should have remembered that was Andrew Jackson who said that, since
- : he got his nickname "Stonewall" by vetoing bills passed by Congress.
- : -- Vice President Dan Quayle, confusing Andrew Jackson
- : with Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson,
- : who actually got his nickname at the first Battle of
- : Bull Run.
- :
- Has anyone ever found the original source for that line? "I have nothing
- but contempt for anyone who can spell a word only one way," is attributed
- to Thomas Jefferson in some sources.
-
- : ... Nope, he's still a brainless twit.
- :
- Oh, come now... mindless, maybe, but not brainless.
-