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John Mann  <metroboyeh5MY_UNDERWEAR@yahoo.com> writes:

> Can I add to my sig file along with the Shelly Winters
> earthquake quote?  

But of course.  I'm pleased that you asked, but as far as
I'm concerned, anything posted to Usenet is in the public
domain and fair game for quoting.  (I've seen people try
to copyright their Usenet posts, but I dismissed them as
self-important wankers.)


> (In case you may have wondered about it's use; the first
> time I read that, years ago, it sent me into hysterics 
> for about twenty minutes.  Guess you had to be there.)

Glad to hear it.  I've read or heard stuff like that
occasionally, things that hit my funnybone just right
and had me chuckling for a long time afterward.  My 
alt.peeves colleague Dan Hillman (he of the "tattered
poster of dogs playing poker" quote) has singular 
talent for coming up with stuff like that.  Those who
may be up for a good chuckle are encouraged to check
out Dan's treatise on logos and trademarks:

	http://www.quahog.org/hillman/prose/logos/

One such _bon mot_ was something I heard on the radio a
couple of years ago.  I was driving up Hwy. 1 late one 
weekend afternoon on my way back from Monterey or some-
where, listening to NPR.  The afternoon's feauture was
back-to-back biographies of Karl Marx and Groucho Marx.
That had me chuckling right there, but what really got
me going was a story about Groucho Marx being rejected
for membership in a New York country club because of 
antisemitism.  

Groucho wrote to the club asking them to reconsider.
"The membership would really be for my daughter, so
that she could have a place to go swimming in the sum-
mertime," he explained.  "She's only half Jewish; how
about if she only goes into the pool up to her waist?"  



Geoff

-- 
Scourging the world of liberalism,
one sniveling jerkoff at a time.