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- The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for October 6 to 12,
- 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. I am not, nor have I ever been, a judicial nominee of the
- Republican Party. --:Dave
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- Ich bin ein Berliner. (I am a [type of pastry].)
- --John F. Kennedy to German people, 1963
-
- Publishing a volume of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the
- Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. --Don Marquis, THE SUN DIAL
-
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us
- the truth about its author. --G.K. Chesterton
-
- What do _you_ care what other people think? --Richard Feynman
-
- An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
- --Fulton J. Sheen
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- God answers all prayers. Sometimes the answer is "No". --Unknown
-
- How do you make a handkerchief dance? Put a little boogie in it.
- --Kevin, "Land Of The Lost" show
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- The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for October 13 to 19,
- 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. Hey, it's better than retaining water. --:Dave
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- I'm tired of all this business about beauty being only skin-deep. That's
- deep enough. What do you want -- an adorable pancreas? --Jean Kerr
-
- When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with
- experience will get the money. And the person with the money will get some
- experience. --Leonard Lauder
-
- Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.
- --Heinrich Heine
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- I asked the bartender for a double, and he brought out some guy who
- looked like me. --Rodney Dangerfield
-
- We were so poor in my neighborhood, the rainbow was in black and white.
- --Rodney Dangerfield
-
- If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure.
- --Vice Pres. Dan Quayle
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- We must limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the
- House and members of the Senate. --Vice Pres. Dan Quayle
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- The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for October 20 to 26,
- 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.
-
- It Feels So Good When It Stops Dept.: A line of cute, cuddly stuffed
- animals has been discontinued by Sears. Why? Because it wimped out when
- hunting groups, devoted to killing cute cuddly animals, complained. It
- seems that a certain portion of the proceeds from the toy line went to
- support an animal rights group, devoted to preserving the animals that the
- hunting groups want to kill, and children want to hug in effigy.
- So make it stop. Call or write Sears representatives, the more important
- the better, to counter-complain. Inform them that you would much rather
- spend your money at stores devoting to making -children- happy, and
- preserving both wild and domesticated life, than at stores that cave in to
- pressure from people whose purpose is to destroy that life and keep toys
- that represent it out of the arms of children. We outnumber the hunters,
- and the negative PR should influence Sears to reverse its decision on the
- toys. --:Dave
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- Mars is in essentially the same orbit as Earth. It is somewhat the same
- distance from the sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where
- there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means
- there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
- --Vice Pres. Dan Quayle
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- Actual items found on English supermarket shelves: Bimbo Bread (South
- American bread), Grated Fanny (canned South American fish), Noveau Pschitt
- (orange drink), Moron (an Italian wine), Donkee Basterd Suker (sugar from
- Amsterdam), Craps (chocolate bars from France), Krapp (toilet paper from
- Scandinavia). --"Comic Relief" magazine
-
- aborigines, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a
- newly discovered country. --"The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce
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- Give me a circus anytime, if it explores the issues. --Denis Horgan
-
- Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll
- all be driving Iraqi cars. --Will Durst
-
- All that I've found out so far is two wrongs don't make a right but three
- lefts do. --David Bunnell
-
- I'm not sure the universe considers me necessary for its continued
- existence, and I have this uneasy feeling it's going to do somet
- --Stephen Kahn
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- The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for October 20 to November 2,
- 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. This is not an offer to sell securities. --:Dave
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- The human mind is like a pin~ata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of
- surprises inside. --Lily Tomlin
-
- Dawn didn't just break, it bloody well exploded, taking out a good-sized
- chunk of horizon and leaving little bits all over the trees. We were
- picking them up for weeks. --Lawrence Watt-Evans
-
- When writing a letter to a Senator, you must address it to "The Honorable
- ______", regardless of the facts. --J. Whiting
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- A kazoo is the larval stage of a bagpipe. --A. Lewis
-
- From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was
- convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. --Groucho Marx
-
- Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow
- up because they're looking for ideas. --Paula Poundstone
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- Police board may consider dropping injured officers
- --Headline, 29 Oct. 1991 Hartford Courant
-