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To: IceShark who wrote (18517)2/8/1999 1:53:00 PM
From: wlheatmoon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 86076
 
Little humor to pass the time. Man, it's dead around here today.

Moments when saying nothing might have worked out better...

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I
Would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if
we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we
cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever.
*Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in The country. *Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC

I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
*Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the
world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
*Mariah Carey, pop singer

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We
are the president."
*Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents

The police are not here to create disorder. They're here to preserve
disorder."
*Former Chicago mayor Daley during the infamous 1968 Democratic
Party Convention

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
*Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas.
*Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
*Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the
same reactions in the brain as marijuana ... The researchers also
discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are. *Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show, August 22

Half this game is ninety percent mental.
*Philadelphia Phillies manager Danny Ozark

They're multipurpose. Not only do they put the clips on, but they take
them off.
*Pratt & Whitney spokesperson explaining why the company charged
the Air Force nearly $1,000 for an ordinary pair of pliers

It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
*Former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have
was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
*Former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities
in our air and water that are doing it.
*Former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle


The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
*Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia

The president has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
*Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on "Larry King Live"

After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of
David Steele to the post.
*Philip Streifer, Superintendent of Schools, Barrington, Rhode Island

That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jack ass,
And I'm just the one to do it.
*A congressional candidate in Texas

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
*General William Westmoreland, during the war in Vietnam

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been a real deep thinker and stuff
*Billy Ray Cyrus