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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
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- Subject: Perot Quiz
- Summary: from the February 1993 Spy Magazine
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.025719.652@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 02:57:19 GMT
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- One out of every five voting Americans liked Ross Perot's ideas enough to
- think he and Margot should be redecorating the White House right now. Could
- it be that the rest of us missed something he said? How many of the following
- do you recognize as no-nonsense Perotisms?
-
- A. "The U.S. government is like a 450-pound woman in a size-7 dress or
- Bigfoot in a size-5 shoe.
-
- B. "Truth is, they all lie on TV and sell you a phony picture of what's
- going on. . . Anyone who's truthful is called and looked at as crazy."
-
- C. "There is no way you can know the taste of water unless you drink it or
- unless it has rained on you or unless you jump in a river."
-
- D. "I have a documented case of one boy [traveling] across Texas with a
- chicken. Everyone wants to know why the boy came home? The chicken was
- worn out. A chicken can only take so much travel."
-
- E. "You have created the monster. . .My faith in me is stronger than all
- your armies, governments, gas chambers or anything you want to do to me."
-
- F. All are no-nonsense Perotisms.
-
-
- Answer: Only (D),the rambling chicken story, is taken from a Perot speech,
- delivered in Washington in 1984 on the topic of school reform. The rest of
- the comparatively cogent thoughts---(A),(B), (C),and (E)--- are direct
- quotations from jailhouse correspondance or ramblings of Charles Manson.
- 1996! 1996! 1996!
-
- [from the February 1993 issue of Spy magazine; reprinted without permission;
- all typos are the fault of my brother, so blame him]
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