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- Subject: Re: The real Dan Quayle
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- From: murthy+@EDRC.CMU.EDU (Sesh Murthy)
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:32:31 GMT
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- In article <D2150056.ir917o@erics.infoserv.com>, erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith) writes:
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- |>
- |> Okay, I'm stepping back ... I'm looking ...
- |>
- |> 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.
- |>
- |> ... Nope, he's still a brainless twit.
- Could any of you with kids in school check on this. My daughter
- started spelling no, as NOE, and claims this is a school joke.
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- This is the same girl of course who voted for Clinton (in the school
- mock elections) because he looks handsome and she likes his hair.
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- She is 6 years old.
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- Sesh
-