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- The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for December 1 to 7,
- 1991. "Rare Gems" is a service mark (sm) of Rare Breed Noninc. and David
- Alan Wright. Compilation copyright 1991 by same. All Wright's rights
- reserved. These collections may be distributed freely as long as this
- notice is retained. Use other side for additional listings. --:Dave
-
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-
- The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction
- means. --Oscar Wilde
-
- I'm not going bald. I'm hairing impaired. --Peter David
-
- A word is dead
- When it is said
- Some say.
- I say it just
- Begins to live
- That day.
- --Emily Dickinson
-
- The tongue of man is a twisty thing. --Homer
-
- Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and
- goes to work. --Carl Sandburg
-
- When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him:
- "Whose?" --Don Marquis
-
- What's a thousand dollars? Mere chicken feed. A poultry matter.
- --Groucho Marx
-
- ===
-
- The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for December 8 to 14,
- 1991. "Rare Gems" is a service mark (sm) of Rare Breed Noninc. and David
- Alan Wright. Intro and compilation copyright 1991 by same. All Wright's
- rights reserved. These collections may be distributed freely as long as this
- notice is retained. Don't look a gift camel in the mouth. Yecch. --:Dave
-
- ===
-
- Remember those Camels I mentioned a few weeks ago? The ones that hang
- around billboards in homo-erotically suggestive poses, pushing carcinogenic
- mood-altering substances? They're up to even more mischief. Now they're
- corrupting children.
- A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association
- links the cartoon camels in Camel's cigarette ads to increased smoking in
- children. Although the ads are aimed at adults (they're certainly adult in
- nature), the AMA finds a higher incidence of Camel smoking in children who
- smoke than in smoking adults, citing brand recognition as the cause. The
- main camel, known as "Old Joe", is recognized by more than 98 percent of
- high school students, as opposed to 67 percent of adults. 91 percent of
- 6-year-olds recognized him. This recognition factor is almost identical to
- that of Mickey Mouse, and Joe hasn't even been on television. The AMA says
- that Camel smoking by minors increased significantly since the character
- debuted in 1988. Camel smoking is now done by 25 percent of 12- to 17-year
- old smokers, twice as much as the rate for smokers 18 to 24 years old.
- "Bestialic Homo-Erotic Child-Seducing Camels". So who wants to do the
- comic book?
-
- ===
-
- Our fatal troika [modern Russia] dashes on in her headlong flight,
- perhaps to destruction. --"The Brothers Karamazov" by Fedor Dostoevski
-
- Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the
- town gossip. --Will Rogers
-
- We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend
- the rest of our lives there. --Henry Longfellow
-
- ...what I knew about caring for a baby could be tallied on the fingers of
- one foot. --Humfrey, "Question Quest" by Piers Anthony
-
- Some of the most popular yet tedious phrases in our language are "Why
- didn't you...?" and "You should have..." --Stephen Kahn
-
- I felt like I was at a venison dinner. People kept passing the buck.
- --:Dave Wright
-
- Good judgment comes from experience; and experience, well, that comes
- from bad judgment. --Unknown
-
- ===
-
- The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for December 15 to 21,
- 1991. "Rare Gems" is a service mark (sm) of Rare Breed Noninc. and David
- Alan Wright. Intro and compilation copyright 1991 by same. All Wright's
- rights reserved. These collections may be distributed freely as long as this
- notice is retained. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Soviet Commonwealth!
- --:Dave
-
- ===
-
- A satellite has revealed that the upper atmosphere of Earth contains massive
- 200-mph windstorms of continental size, previously unnoticed by scientists.
- The windstorms act like ocean waves, starting small in the troposphere and
- building until they break against the mesosphere, which is nicknamed the
- "ignorosphere" because it's so hard to study that it's usually ignored.
- Therefore, the windstorms have been ignored until now. Not that anyone would
- notice the 200-mph wind breakers if they were standing in the middle of them;
- the air is so thin at that altitude, the force is negligible. Other items
- rumored (by me) to be found in the "ignorosphere" are active attempts to
- balance budgets, the actual intelligence of television audiences, instruction
- manuals, and MacLean Stevenson.
-
- ===
-
- Intrigue... How intriguing! --Gomez, "The Addams Family" show
-
- My account's like the Ed Sullivan Show with a stageful of Eastern Bloc
- acrobats -- too many bouncing checks. --D. Wilson
-
- Dogs NEVER diet. We don't have any clothes we have to fit into.
- --Dawg, "Hi and Lois" strip by Mort Walker and Robert Browne
-
- While we spend energy and imagination on new ways of cleaning the floors
- of our houses, the Japanese solve the problem by not dirtying them in the
- first place. --Bernard Rudofsky
-
- A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. --Samuel Butler
-
- I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays
- of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis
- Bacon. --Bill Hirst
-
- The song of canaries
- Never varies,
- And when they're moulting
- They're pretty revolting.
- --"The Canary" by Ogden Nash
-
- ===
-
- The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for December 22 to 28,
- 1991. "Rare Gems" is a service mark (sm) of Rare Breed Noninc. and David
- Alan Wright. Intro and compilation copyright 1991 by same. All Wright's
- rights reserved. These collections may be distributed freely as long as this
- notice is retained. Operators are lounging by. --:Dave
-
- ===
-
- Time Magazine is still running commercials that promise your free gift
- will arrive before Christmas Eve. Does this mean that if you call now, and
- then check your mail, you'll find that your gift has been sitting there for
- five days or more?
-
- ===
-
- ...I did not get a woman in the fishnet body stocking that hung by the
- fireplace, as I had requested from Santa... --J. Long
-
- This is a medium-strength pain reliever.
- --Fortune-teller's doctor, Martha F. Campbell cartoon
-
- One more remark like that, buster, and I'll kick you where the sun _does_
- shine. --Woman at nudist camp, "off the mark" cartoon by Mark Parisi
-
- There are no illegitimate children -- only illegitimate parents.
- --O.O. McIntyre
-
- The way we get thoroughbred horses and thoroughbred dogs is through
- inbreeding.
- --Louisiana Rep. Carl Gunter, explaining why incest is not a good reason
- for abortion
-
- A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has
- never learned how to walk forward. --Franklin D. Roosevelt
-
- Give me chastity and continency, but not yet. --St. Augustine
-
- ===
-
- The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for December 29, 1991
- to January 4, 1992. "Rare Gems" is a service mark (sm) of Rare Breed
- Noninc. and David Alan Wright. Compilation copyright 1991 by same. All
- Wright's rights reserved. These collections may be distributed freely as
- long as this notice is retained. For recreational use only. --:Dave
-
- ===
-
- I may look like a note, but I'm actually an alien being. Right now I'm
- having sex with your fingers. I know you like it because you're smiling.
- Please pass me around because I'm really...
- --Note, "Stranger Than Truth" by Stephan Petrucha
- ("Munden's Bar Annual" #2)
-
- If all these support groups are supposed to be "anonymous", then why does
- each person have to get up in front of everyone else and say, "Hello, I'm
- Real Name, and I'm a..."? --Dave Wright
-
- In one year and out the other. --Larry Hammer, 1/1/92
-
- "Around the World in 80 Days" will not be shown at this time, because we
- only have thirty minutes...
- --"You Can't Do That On Television!" show
-
- The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to
- believe that there is -some- group of folks who know what they're doing.
- --Damon Knight
-
- [Jimi Hendrix] thought I was stupid [for not taking drugs], and I thought
- he was a god. Now he's dead, and I'm still Ted. --Ted Nugent
-
- Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys
- to teenage boys. --P.J. O'Rourke
-