Subject: 1993 Moriarty Quote List [Corrected 1992 List, Part 10 of 11] Message-ID: <1993May10.035715.22200@tc.fluke.COM> Keywords: Acres O' Quotes Organization: The Institute for Criminal Science, Gizmonics Control References: <1993May10.032105.21262@tc.fluke.COM> <1993May10.035627.22140@tc.fluke.COM> Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 03:57:15 GMT Lines: 1850 "I'd like to ask Gary [Groth] to say something nasty about this." -- Will Eisner ---- "Expanding a comic line just to gain market share is like... Marvel." -- Harlan Ellison ---- "No, no, no, NO! Perverts are hired by MARVEL!" -- Harlan Ellison ---- "I am absolutely without flaw, and don't you f***ing forget it!" -- Harlan Ellison ---- "We'll learn about Euro-Communism -- That's communists who drive Porches." -- Howard Chaykin ---- "It's the best thing since professional golfers on 'ludes." -- Rick Obidiah ---- "We've repackaged Flagg. Basically, it's gonna look like a box of Tide." -- Howard Chaykin ---- "Almost all Eskimo jokes have the same punch line -- You know, he fell through the ice and died." -- Larry Marder ---- "College... what a *disgusting* place." [An observant quote from BEANS BAXTER] ---- "Captain America." "Revamp him? Make him a Commie or something?" -- Mike Grell and Mark Gruenwald ---- "OK, but be careful. In my experience, Republican women are harder to open than a liquor store in Nebraska." [Teddy's, err, Charlie's Angels spoof on SNL] ---- "To your left is the marina where several senior cabinet officials keep luxury yachts for weekend cruises on the Potomac. Some of these ships are up to 100 feet in length; the Presidential yacht is over 200 feet in length, and can remain submerged for up to 3 weeks." -- Garrison Keillor ---- "...in MAUS it wouldn't have been valid to have the Nazis land in a flying saucer." "I was thinking of that." "But it had been done before, right, Art?" -- Elliot S! Maggin, Art Spiegelman, and Lee Mars, respectively ---- "Well, social relevance is a schtick, like mysteries, social relevance, science fiction..." -- Art Spiegelman ---- "One of the problems I've always had with propaganda pamphlets is that they're real boring to look at. They're just badly designed. People from the left often are very well-intended, but they never had time to take basic design classes, you know?" -- Art Spiegelman ---- "...it's just what usually happens is propaganda from the right is perceived as actuality, and propaganda from the left is perceived as propaganda..." -- Art Spiegelman ---- "Pesky foreign espionage agents! Why don't they let me be?" [Lester Girls, lamenting on the lot of the Secret Agent] ---- "Listen, how about if you hit me instead, and then my niece can finally see how two grown men can fit into an aspirin bottle." [Maggie's Aunt (the wrestler) with some advice for the youth of America] ---- "Dick... YOU'RE FIRED!" *POW* *POW* *POW* [The kind of executive order that REALLY results in termination. From ROBOCOP] ---- "Nice shooting, son. What's your name?" "MURPHY." [From ROBOCOP] ---- "Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide." [Sean Connery comments on The Windy City in THE UNTOUCHABLES] ---- "Mr. Ness! I do not approve of your methods." "Yeah? Well, you're not from Chicago." [THE UNTOUCHABLES] ---- "Before I begin, I'd like to recite the Lawyer's Prayer: Lord, please let there be strife and misery among your people, Lest your servant starve..." [Clonezone takes on lawyers, from BADGER] ---- "Sir, if you'd pay ATTENTION instead of writing your signature in drool on the table, you'd know." [Clonezone takes on lawyers, from BADGER] ---- "You might have hidden diplomatic talents." "God, I hope not." [Sundra and Horatio, from NEXUS] ---- "I'm on a mission from Grodd." [An MTV gorilla, from SWAMP THING] ---- "Awh! Mothra!" [SWAMP THING] ---- "THE VEIDT METHOD: I will give you bodies beyond your wildest imaginings." [Another piece of Moore irony in WATCHMEN] ---- "...and the world's smartest man means no more to me than its smartest termite." [Dr. Manhattan against Adrian Veidt, in WATCHMEN] ---- "No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise." [Rorschach's only, fatal principle, from WATCHMEN] ---- "American comic books are militaristic propaganda! And much too expensive!" [Well, they are! From THE AMERICAN] ---- "Yeah... *cough*... that's right... rub it in... *cough*... offed by a non-stick coating..." [From THE AMERICAN] ---- "Hey, gimme five dollars!" "Kid, does the name Bernhard Goetz mean anything to you?" [From THE AMERICAN] ---- "If you took everyone who's ever been to a Dead show, and lined them up, they'd stretch halfway to the moon and back... and none of them would be complaining." [Local Deadhead from THE SEATTLE TIMES] ---- "You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human." -- Hobbes ---- "You READ this article, Mom?" "Damn it! Get your gunboats off my kitchen table!" [Those crazy aviators from VALKYRIE!] ---- "And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." [One of the two funny jokes in SPACEBALLS] ---- "Jack Putter... TO THE RESCUE!" [Martin Short, adventurer, from the conclusion of INNER SPACE] ---- "Oh, relax -- enjoy it! When do you ever use opposable thumbs, anyway?" [Max looks at the silver lining, in ZOT!] ---- "Max, did you order a talking monkey for this set?" "No, that's just a friend of the family." [Alternate Earth videos, from ZOT!] ---- "MR. DeGUZMAN, YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED!" "That's Harris. DeGuzman is math." "BAH! They're ALL scoundrels..." [Zack, looking desperately for evil, from ZOT!] ---- Why are many scientists using lawyers for medical experiments instead of rats? a) There are more lawyers than rats. b) The scientist's don't become as emotionally attached to them. c) There are some things that even rats won't do for money. [Anonymous] ---- "Enough of this running shit." [Sean Connery on chase scenes, from THE UNTOUCHABLES] ---- "They only have two rules in the whole school: One, you're not allowed to carry a gun, and two, you're not allowed to walk on the roof." -- Reed College rugby coach Peter Carmine ---- "During the race We may eat your dust, But when you graduate, You'll work for us." -- Reed College cheer ---- "What, in my life, does not deserve celebrating?" [Adrian Veidt's soliloquy to his late retinue, from WATCHMEN] ---- "No, no, I don't mind being called the smartest man in the world. I just wish it wasn't this one." [Veidt's key phrase, from WATCHMEN] ---- "Riley, can you operate a road grader?" "Of COURSE! What kind of a question is that?" [What kind of a question IS that? A normal BADGER question, of course...] ---- "Oh... what's the easiest way to explain a coven..." "A secret meeting place for vampires." "Why, yes. That's it. Thank you." [Terminology and the vampire, from HERO SANDWICH] ---- "Hello, Laughing Academy? Please to send zee Viggy Vagon to..." "Richard, please..." [The elastic joker from HERO SANDWICH] ---- "No time to fill our pockets, Hempy! Looks like Harrod's and drug addictions for us after all." "Blast! I was hoping to avoid that." [Hempy's fate looks grim in DINOSAUR REX] ---- "...so, like everybody was rooted to the spot. He picked up a little girl, and like, we'd all seen FRANKENSTEIN, right? It was scary. Then he sits her on his shoulder, an' everybody laughs and claps. Man... "Man, that was the *best*. Best moment of my life." [Chester, a social and cultural rarity: a good man. From SWAMP THING] ---- "This guy, North... does he ever get out of his car?" [Local Seattle Comic] ---- "In a blatant effort to curry favor with a French judge and jury, accused Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie told a stunned courtroom in Lyon this week that his favorite movie has always been `The Nutty Professor'." -- Dennis Miller, SNL News ---- "Amid all the noise about the Joan Rivers cancellation, ABC has canceled `Our World', which featured Linda Ellerbee. The two unemployed women plan to get together and open up a chain of charm schools in Libya." -- Dennis Miller, SNL News ---- TO THE CLASS OF 1987: "Unfortunately, a full 16% of you will be functionally illiterate. I'm afraid you'll have a hard row to hoe in the job market; after all, there are only so many staff positions at USA Today." -- A. Whitney Brown ---- "Since he's been in the White House, President Reagan has gotten two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, prostate surgery, and he's been shot. "And we, the American People, should always remember these things... because he won't." -- Dennis Miller, SNL News ---- "The Washington Post reported yesterday that Jim Bakker had been seen in the PTL steam room frolicking nude with three other naked men; and that a neglected Tammy Fay had had her breasts enlarged, hoping for a Marilyn Monroe image. "The collected Bakker history should inspire us all to become true believers in a supreme higher power that made sure, out of the five billion people in this world, that these two creeps found each other." -- Dennis Miller, SNL News ---- "I... AM NOT... A PACIFIST!" [An angry defensive back explains to rednecks, in AMAZING GRACE AND CHUCK] ---- "Justice, like lightning, should ever appear To some people, hope, and to other ones, fear." [A slightly changed version of Tony Isabella's opening lines to BLACK LIGHTNING] ---- DAVE BARRY'S "1986 in Review" -- Nov. 19th: White House spokesman Larry Speakes tries to clarify the Iran Arms deal further but no reporters show up because they're afraid they'll wet their pants laughing. ---- DAVE BARRY'S "1986 in Review" -- August 3rd: Working in dark, cold and treacherous currents far beneath the surface of North Atlantic water lashed by Tropical Storm Dwayne R. LePoon Jr., divers for the first time are able to get an "underwater eye" camera inside the wreck of the Titanic and discover that the ill-fated luxury liner had been operated by financially troubled Eastern Air Lines. ---- DAVE BARRY'S "1986 in Review" -- June 29th: President Reagan announces that the SALT II treaty is "dead" and that he will continue to abide by it. White House press spokesman Larry Speakes clarifies this by explaining that the president "has no idea what he is saying." ---- DAVE BARRY'S "1986 in Review" -- June 14th: Eight concerned parents in rural Georgia sue the local school district for teaching their children the alphabet, which can be used to form dirty words. ---- DAVE BARRY'S "1986 in Review" -- June 2nd: Canada demands that Libya send it some diplomats so it can expel them. ---- DAVE BARRY'S "1986 in Review" -- May 10th: The official Soviet news agency Tass releases a photograph of a city street scene, with the caption: "All is well as citizens of Chernobyl are resuming normal activities." Clearly visible in the background is the Vatican. ---- DAVE BARRY'S "1986 in Review" -- Apr. 25th: True Fact: The U.S. Government arrest 17 people for allegedly attempting to sell arms to Iran. This item will seem much funnier later on. ---- DAVE BARRY'S "1986 in Review" -- Apr. 11th: After aerial reconnaissance photographs reveal that Moammar el-Gadhafi is building a 375-foot-high middle finger near the highly strategic Gulf of Sidra, an angry President Reagan directs massive bombing raids against various site in Liberia. Worldwide reaction to the U.S. raids is mixed, the major criticism being that the president probably meant to attack Libya, which SOUNDS like "Liberia," but is actually a different country. U.S. polls show that 87% of Americans support the president and think they "probably would have made the same mistake." ---- DAVE BARRY'S "1986 in Review" -- Mar. 20th: Kurt Waldheim issues a statement claiming that he missed World War II because of "car trouble." ---- DAVE BARRY'S "1986 in Review" -- Mar. 6th: In the Middle East, Iraq uses up all its young men and has to borrow some from Iran so they can keep having a war. ---- DAVE BARRY'S "1986 in Review" -- Feb. 20th: President Reagan visits the island of Grenada to commemorate the U.S. victory over communist Cuban troops armed with sophisticated construction equipment. Thousands of cheering Grenadans turn out to watch Air Force One gracefully touch down, then swoop back up into the sky because Grenada is too short for an actual landing. ---- DAVE BARRY'S "1986 in Review" -- Feb. 17th: Under the careful scrutiny of crack State Department observers, Filipino voters re-elect President Ferdinand Marcos by more than 600 billion votes. Marcos, in a conciliatory mood, calls for "a time of healing" followed by "a time of giving people powerful electrical shocks in their private parts." ---- Favorite Tabloid Headlines: * Baby born with winning lotto ticket * Princess Di to become an American * Elvis' face appears in Maytag window during rinse cycle * Bigfoot ate my twins * Jane Wyman: "Life with Ron prepared me for 'Falcon Crest' role" * Why Mr. T. sleeps with a night-light * Exclusive: Why Pulitzer panel shuns tabloids [Extracted from a rec.humor article] ---- "What *are* you doing up there, Reg?" "Being heroic, Dom. It was my turn." [Blank Reg, being just that. From MAX HEADROOM] ---- "Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." [Mark Twain] ---- Mencken and Nathan's Ninth Law of The Average American: The quality of a champagne is judged by the amount of noise the cork makes when it is popped. ---- "Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse." -- William Gilbert ---- Mosher's Law of Software Engineering: Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job. ---- Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage. Those who manage what they do not understand. ---- Pohl's law: Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it. ---- Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again. -- A. E. Housman ---- Pig: An animal (Porcus omnivorous) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it [balks] at pig. [Ambrose Bierce, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY] ---- "We don't have to protect the environment -- the Second Coming is at hand." -- James Watt ---- If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. [Gloria Steinhem] ---- "I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce." -- J. Edgar Hoover ---- "I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness." -- Steve Martin ---- "When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen." -- Young Richard Nixon on Teapot Dome scandal ---- "I've had one child. My husband wants to have another. I'd like to watch him have another." [Anon. fortune] ---- [Fundamentalist] Christian: One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. [Ambrose Bierce, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY] ---- "To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition." -- Woody Allen ---- Noncombatant: A dead Quaker. -- Ambrose Bierce ---- "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again." -- Clint Eastwood ---- Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): "Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization?" Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea." ---- Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania. -- Dorothy Parker ---- "A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I believe everything positively stinks." -- Lew Col ---- Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when they grow up, they will never be able to edge their car onto a freeway. [Anon. fortune] ---- Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to execute a job? A: Four; three to hold it down, and one to rip its head off. [Anon. fortune] ---- Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs. [Anon. fortune] ---- Naeser's Law: You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfoolproof. ---- Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. [Anon. fortune] ---- If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions? [Anon. fortune] ---- Honorable: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur." [Ambrose Bierce, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY] ---- Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined. ---- Captain Penny's Law: You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool Mom. ---- Harvard Law: Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. ---- Mad: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence... [Ambrose Bierce, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY] ---- Monday: In Christian countries, the day after the football game. [paraphrased from Ambose Bierce, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY -- he used baseball instead] ---- When uncertain or in doubt, Run in circles! Scream and shout! [Dorable] ---- "President Reagan has advised the youth of America that it is a good idea to practice total abstinence from sex. And that is a good suggestion, Mr. President... now tell it to the Marines." -- Mark Russell ---- "Well... everybody's being very careful, these days, sexually, but there are still several pockets of promiscuity... the Marines and the Evangelists." -- Mark Russell ---- "I get all these stories mixed up, the headlines come so fast... the money, the money that the Rev. Jim Bakker allegedly gave to that church secretary: I want to know how much of that money went to the Contras in Nicuraugua and I want to know NOW!" -- Mark Russell ---- "I suppose that for the next year-and-a-half the stock market will shoot way up every time Howard Baker walks out of the Oval Office and says, `He's alert today!'" -- Mark Russell ---- "`JUST A ROBOT?!' How would you like it if I called you `Just a Jew?'" [Luthor the robot loses his temper in AMERICAN FLAGG!] ---- "No FLACK! No HASSLES! No morons playing AL CAPONE in the lobby!" [Liz discusses the advantages of being a CPA in FORTUNE'S FRIENDS: Hell Week] ---- "Where I come from, equality of the sexes is a given -- so WE can hit ANYONE." "Oh... thank you... SO much... for explainnnn..." [24th century manners, courtesty of THE JUSTICE LEAGUE] ---- "He'd make a fine addition to the team, Batman... if only he wasn't so lacking in energy and enthusiasm." "We'll have to get him to work on that." [24th century manners, courtesty of THE JUSTICE LEAGUE] ---- "Splendid villain! Very exuberant!" [Uncle Max rates criminals in ZOT!] ---- "Maybe you were right... maybe I don't belong here." "Yeah, well, *I* do! YOU showed me that." [A truly moving sequence from ZOT!] ---- "For my own part, regret nothing. Have lived life, free from compromise... and step into the shadow now without complaint." [Rorschach takes a rare look backward, from WATCHMEN] ---- "I simply cannot ride in a car that says, "Women's Transit Authority" on the side." [The Badger discusses the proprieties of driving in BADGER] ---- "I cook with gas, I ride in tractors, I drink with deceased movie actors." [Badger Rap, from BADGER] ---- "Now then. This is the situation. Roaches. Millions of roaches acting together under the direction of a human. Like me! Or Burt Reynolds!" [One man and 50,000 rats against an army of Roaches. BADGER] ---- "Stand by to be impressed." [Lucifer tries to blow this joint. From STIG'S INFERNO] ---- "Sorry... Mort Weisinger got the better of me for a sec." [A moment of panick due to the Plasma Monkeys. From STIG'S INFERNO] ---- "I imagine you've guessed by now that these big explosion panels are nothing more than an obvious method of *greatly* reducing my penciling time." [Ty Templeton footnotes how he Draws Comics. From STIG'S INFERNO] ---- "What's this? Your way of saying you're sorry?" "No... it's my way of trying not to." [Good writing from CROSSFIRE] ---- "My husband commits an inconceivable act of perversion with a barnyard animal, and it's not central to my case?!" "Not in California." [Arnie Becker discusses marital infidelities on L.A. LAW] ---- "Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt." [From THE CHOCOLATE BOOK] ---- The New IBM PERSONAL SYSTEM COMPUTERS: Engineered... by Lawyers [Jeff Meyer] ---- Michael O'Donoghue on Louise Lasser's SNL hosting: "She was a nice woman going through a few problems, but I wanted to force her to eat her goddam pigtails at gunpoint." -- "Saturday Night", Hill & Weingrad ---- Michael O'Donoghue's letter to Mademoiselle Magazine: "Dear Editors: I couldn't help but be a bit irked when I noticed that you and [photographer] Duane Michals had cropped my head out of the photograph that appears on page 121 of your March issue. I'd like to come over there and kick every one of you in the cunt if I didn't think it would ruin my shine. Michael O'Donoghue" -- "Saturday Night", Hill & Weingrad ---- "But now I am what I am today! A responsible citizen, and besides that... I packs a rod!" [BULLET CROW discusses gun control] ---- "I'm the luckiest rabbit in the WORLD! I'm going to work for you, my hero... DICK DUCK, DUCK DICK!" [A slight mistake in BULLET CROW] ---- "Hmmm... volcanic activity in the greater Sioux City area." [Weather conditions in BULLET CROW] ---- "Hi. I'm Luther. Dumb ol' Luther -- the happy sidekick. The comedy relief. And I'm going to kill you." [Luthor's cybernetic logic finally gives, in AMERICAN FLAGG!] ---- "And the Angel of the Lord dropped upon him, yea verily, saying: My left hand carries iron, The right one steel. If the left don't gitcha, Then the right one will." [The Preacher gives his slightly warped version of scriptures, from GRIMJACK] ---- "...you thought you were alone, but you see, there's monsters everywhere. Most of the time, ya don't even need Gamma rays to let 'em out." [Philosophy from THE HULK] ---- "To live outside the law, you must be honest." -- Bob Dylan ---- "I love America. Electricity right from the wall, anytime you want it." [A Central American torturer discusses convenience, from THE PUNISHER] ---- "And God help whoever gets in our way!" "Dimitri...?" "YES, Alexi?" "We're not supposed to believe in God." "Oh. That's right." [Faux pas on the part of some Russian Super-Soldiers, from THE JUSTICE LEAGUE] ---- "Merry Christmas, scumwad." [Norm Buntz's jolly wish to Belker's assailant on HILL STREET BLUES] ---- "That's the trouble with godhood: it robs you of your finer judgement. A deity so rarely has to *pay* for his mistakes!" [The Midgard Serpent analyzes mythic concepts...] ---- "...while heroes... heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity! Thus are legends born!" [...and THOR analyzes right back] ---- "HONK! HONK!" [The BADGER in moralistic turpitude] ---- "Yes! The Animals! Possibly the greatest band ever. Possibly not." [The BADGER] ---- "And look... don't threaten the customers. They don't eat as much." "I'll keep it in mind." [Jezebel Jade comments on American service organizations, in JONNY QUEST] ---- "But you don't UNDERSTAND. I've been doing this for years now. There's a flash of light. And I'm on another planet." "Yeah... Yeah, I sometimes get that." [Adam Strange attempts to explain his lifestyle, in SWAMP THING] ---- "Conquest." "I had a premonition he was going to say that." [Cerebus -- who else?] ---- "But... surely, your merciful Holiness... SOME should be exempt from such a draft?" "EXEMPT?! ... Oh, all *right*. No DEAD people." [Cerebus -- who else?] ---- "'Wit smoke and fire and fumes an' what-not comin' outta dere nostrils... dey rep'esent youah virility... Likewise wit' d'enormous bulge in y'pants here." [Portrait of a dictator... CEREBUS] ---- McDonald's new McSUSHI: "America's Eating It Raw!" [SNL] ---- "...for we have Vim... for we have Vigor... for we have Advanced Nuclear Weaponry!" [BULLET CROW's usual banter] ---- "Elektra. Over there. It's a flying dwarf." [Strange doings in ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN] ---- "...you see, he thinks I'm crazy. And I'm the President. So I've got the box. Damn Straight." [The hilarious conclusion to ELEKTRA] ---- "Calling all units! Leading monster stampede through the bottomlands to lower forty!... Set up ambush on flanks!... Also, do not shoot me!... Repeat!... Do not shoot me!!!" [FLAMING CARROT vs the Giant Japanese Monsters!] ---- "That Flaming Carrot is a real fire-eater!... He'd charge Hell with a bucket of gasoline!" [FLAMING CARROT] ---- "I shot 'em in the ears and blew their brains out! I invented that!" [FLAMING CARROT] ---- "You know monsters... they're ALWAYS eating power stations!" [FLAMING CARROT] ---- "Hey, Flaming Carrot!... What makes you so brave?" "It's my birthday. Now get outta here!" [FLAMING CARROT] ---- "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." [George Carlin] ---- "It is better to shred the bugger than to bugger the shredder." -- Ancient Doltic proverb. ---- "Taking drugs in the 60s, I tried to reach Nirvana, But all I ever got were re-runs of The Mickey Mouse Club." -Rev. Jim ---- "The unique thing about the whole 'Masters of the Universe' concept is that it combines sword and sorcery with high tech, so you've got guys in armor wielding swords, but they're also equipped with lasers." -- Gary Doddard, director of 'He-Man' ---- "Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor." -- Dolph Lundgren, actor[?!] ---- "If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up." -- HANNAH AND HER SISTERS ---- "She got drunker, and drunker... and then she became Joan Collins!" -- HANNAH AND HER SISTERS ---- "Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God -- I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again." -- HANNAH AND HER SISTERS ---- "How the hell do I know why there are Nazis? I don't know why the can opener works." -- HANNAH AND HER SISTERS ---- "In regards to Oral Roberts' claim that God told him that he would die unless he received $20 million by March, God's lawyers have stated that their client has not spoken with Roberts for several years. Off the record, God has stated that `if I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.'" -- Dennis Miller, SNL News ---- "Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core." -- Hannah Arendt. ---- Quod licet Iovi non licet bovi. [Translation: What Jove may do, is not permitted to a cow.] [Ancient Phrase] ---- "AMERICA'S CUP FACT: Most of the people obsessed with the America's cup are trendy jerks who hadn't even heard of it a year ago." -- Dennis Miller ---- "BEWARE, EVILDOERS, WHEREVER YOU ARE!" -- The Masked Avenger ---- "Y'know, the world would be a beautiful place if it certain people weren't in it." -- RADIO DAYS ---- "I distrust a man who says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much, it's because he's not to be trusted when he does." -- Sidney Greenstreet, THE MALTESE FALCON ---- "I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously, unless you keep in practice. Now, sir, we'll talk if you like. I'll tell you right out, I'm a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk." -- Sidney Greenstreet, THE MALTESE FALCON ---- "You may be right, my faithful Indian companion." -- RADIO DAYS ---- "Boy -- LOOKIT DEM GUNS!" [Lustfull father in MR. MONSTER] ---- "Gosh, Mr. Monster... You're SWELL! I wanna be jus' like you when I grow up!" "Ha Ha! Well... OF COURSE you do!" [A sentimental moment in MR. MONSTER] ---- "All extremists should be taken out and shot." [Anonymous] ---- "Hideous creatures from other dimensions! What'll I do? What'll I DO?!" [The BADGER considers an everyday problem] ---- "You'd think IBOB would forgive and forget the seventeen guys I chopped up in Nepal. But NOOOOOOOO..." [The BADGER] ---- "Hope this is the RIGHT guy!" [The BADGER] ---- "This is the type of situation where your personal health insurance really comes into focus." [The IBOB demon from THE BADGER] ---- "BACK, spawn of Satan! It's the Reverend Wallace Wallop you face, and my strength is GREAT, for I do HIS work! This is a battery-powered water pistol filled with HOLY WATER! We don't hold with the Papacy, but Lord, LORD -- that Pope can bless water like NOBODY'S business!" "Rambo him good in the name of the Lord." [The Rev. Wallace Wallop (and the Missus) dispatch yet another Hellspawn] ---- "The sixties were good to you, weren't they?" -- George Carlin ---- "You stay here, Audrey -- this is between me and the vegetable!" [Seymour from LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS] ---- Any philosophy that can be put in a nut shell, belongs there. [Anonymous] ---- "From Sharp minds come... pointed heads." -- Bryan Sparrowhawk ---- There are two kinds of egotists: 1) Those who admit it 2) The rest of us [Anonymous] ---- [From Prince Ra-Man's predictions for 1987] 3/29/86: Marvel continues to prove that the New Universe is more true-to-life, by canceling three of the titles -- just as would happen to *real* comic books that are incredibly bad. 4/2/86: Rebounding from the demise of the three New Universe titles, Marvel announces that they will be replaced by three new mini-series set to run in the second half of the year: X-Men vs. the G.I. Joes, X-Men vs. the Ewoks, and X-Men vs. Jarvis the Butler. -- R. A. Jones ---- "How dare they jail me! Those freedom-loving American JERKS!" [Godless Commie Scientist from ATOMIC MAN COMICS] ---- "Who could be attacking me in my own home? Egor Green? Galxor of Xaytan? Horrortroy the DevilDog? Dr. Stardust? Bug Boy? Or some new bozo with a bad attitude?" [Atomic Man!] ---- "Well, we must face a new reality. No more carefree days of chasing squirrels, running through the park, or howling at the moon. On the other hand, no more `Fetch the stick, boy, fetch the stick.'" [The Far Side, by Gary Larson] ---- "Thunderstick?... You actually said `Thunderstick'?... That, my friend, is a Winchester 30.06." [The Far Side, by Gary Larson] ---- "The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut." [The Far Side, by Gary Larson] ---- "Really, I'm confident that when all the facts are in, you'll see that there's no cause for interdepartmental tension..." "THIS before breakfast..." [A disembodied head from ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN] ---- "I've heard all kinds of sounds from these things, but `yabba dabba doo' was a new one to me." [The Far Side, by Gary Larson] ---- "Notice all the computations, theoretical scribblings, and lab equipment, Norm. ... Yes, curiosity killed these cats." [The Far Side, by Gary Larson] ---- "Sure, I'll draw, mister -- but first you gotta say the magic word... Didn't your mother ever teach you the magic word?" [The Far Side, by Gary Larson] ---- "A cat killer? Is that a face of a cat killer? Cat CHASER, maybe. But hey -- who isn't?" [The Far Side, by Gary Larson] ---- "Well, Mr. Cody, according to our questionnaire, you would probably excel in sales, advertising, slaughtering a few thousand buffalo, or market research." [The Far Side, by Gary Larson] ---- "Remember me, Mr. Schneider? Kenya, 1947. If you're going to shoot an elephant, Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job." [The Far Side, by Gary Larson] ---- [sung to "The Ballad of the Green Berets"] Fighting soldier In Vietnam, The perfect son To any Mom, He's one part man, One part machine, He's Ollie North, The Mute Marine. [...] He traded arms With Iran For hostages -- What a great plan! The chances for Success were zero; Yet he's still A national hero. [...] He'd like to talk But cannot speak, His will is strong, His case is weak; We may never know Just what he's seen: The man they call, The Mute Marine. -- Saturday Night Live ---- "What IS a `moderate Iranian', anyway? Someone who takes hostages but doesn't eat them?" -- Mark Russell ---- "Badger, what kind of amplifier should I get?" "A BIG one." [The Badger giving out Hi-Fi advice] ---- "Oh, No! My heart is racing! The metamorphosis has started! It's too late -- I can't stop it! I'll be that ugly green monster -- hated and hunted! I'm... I'm... I'm GUMBY, Dammit!" [From BOFFO LAUGHS] ---- "A keyboard... how quaint." [Engineer Scott gives his considered opinion of a Macintosh -- Star Trek IV] ---- "I liketh a band that playeth the oldies." -- David Addison ---- "I've been kicking Reagan all the time he's been up; I see no reason to stop now that he's down." -- Jeff Meyer ---- "So you're from outer space!" "Actually, I'm from Iowa; I just WORK in outer space." [Captain Kirk on careers -- Star Trek IV] ---- "We Americans, we're a simple people... but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities." -- Robin Williams ---- [Lester Maddox talking to Prime Minister Botha of South Africa] "Lemme show ya the odds, Sparky... In yer country, ya got 14 million black people, and 3 million white people. "Now, does the name `Custer' mean anything to you?" -- Robin Williams ---- "Dan, you risked your LIFE for cheap sex?" "You say that as if it were a bad thing." [Harry and Dan from NIGHT COURT] ---- Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's Christmas wish: "We would like to have Jerry Falwell, Lyndon LaRouche, and Pat Robertson chained to a radiator while Harlan Ellison reads them the U.S. Constitution." [From THE COMIC BUYER'S GUIDE, a Christmas wish from two of the creators of DARK KNIGHT] ---- "Well, Chas, it's like this... I'm under psychic domination by a ninja assassin with magic powers with a body almost as good as yours who needs to kill Ken Wind because he's possessed by a demon. How've you been?" [Agent Garret tries to summarize his situation to a colleague... from ELEKTRA] ---- "A gentleman representing a Slavic country has offered me $100 million to destroy the American wheat crop. What do you say?" "You don't crap where you sleep." [Ham presents THE BADGER with an economic enigma...] ---- "No heavy pitch! No lame digression! We're at the peak Of our profession!" [Jaques expounds on CLONEZONE's skills as a video tech] ---- "Because I live in the hearts and minds of everyone who believes in TRUTH, JUSTICE and THE AMERICAN WAY. And that is bigger than you. Bigger than anyone who tries to make me in their own image." [From THE MAN OF RUST] ---- "You have to ask. Just once in your life, you have to ask." -- Irwin Bernstein [A truism from the long-suffering DA on HILL STREET BLUES (played by George Wyner)] ---- FLUKE MINUTE SAFETY TEST: In case of fire, save the a. women and children. b. expensive equipment. c. jewelry and wallets of those who've succumbed to smoke inhalation. [Originally a part of a Sane Man quiz -- I abscounded with it] ---- "None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with you. YOU'RE locked up in here with ME." [Rorschach sets people straight. WATCHMEN #6] ---- "Even in 1956, when informed of his mother's brutal murder, he restricted his comments to one word: `Good.'" [From the medical report on Rorschach. WATCHMEn #6] ---- "Bumbling? BUMBLING? You can't even speak English, and you're INSULTING people?" [An angry accountant from MERC] ---- "What mistakes have you made, Lieutenant? You kept the media away from it. That's the bottom line, isn't it? Yes it is." [Lt. Gordon gets a lecture on departmental priorities. From BATMAN: YEAR 1] ---- "All I want to do is read ONE good comic book before I go COMPLETELY blind!" [The GNATRAT complains again...] ---- Why won't sharks eat lawyers? Professional courtesy. [Anonymous] ---- "This guy wants to be in the White House because Jesus told him. Jesus woke him up and went: `Pssst. Pat. Pat. Yeah, it's Jesus, man. Hey, hey, I want you to run for president.'" -- Sam Kinison ---- "It's like: `JESUS TOLD ME TO! NOW WHAT?'" -- Sam Kinison ---- "You know, I remember when the Lord spoke to me and said to go into radio. And that was about the time Jesus said 'Expand your ministry into the television area.' And that was about the time Jesus spoke to me and said to put out a satellite so the government couldn't control our transmissions. And it was about that time that Jesus came to me and begin to explain to me the non-profit corporation principle. Yeah, and then Jesus told me to build an amusement park, it would be non-profit. YAH!" [rude gesture] -- Sam Kinison ---- "A-B-C-D-E-F-G, Sell your story to TV, How you turned in Mom & Dad -- Wasn't Mrs. Reagan glad?" -- Mark Russell ---- Robin Williams on engineering majors: "We don't get laid much, but we're building the future." ---- "You know, we've won awards for this crap." -- David Letterman ---- "This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one." -- George Sanders ---- "What a bonanza! An unknown beginner to be directed by Lubitsch, in a script by Wilder and Brackett, and to play with Paramount's two superstars, Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert, and to be beaten up by both of them!" -- David Niven, BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES ---- "I thought I told you to SHUT UP!" -- Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman ---- "WHO'S TARIM, NECROSS!!?" "NO! PLEASE! I'LL GIVE YOU ALL THE GOLD! EVERY COIN!" "*WHO*?!" "YOU ARE! **YOU**!" "damn right." [CEREBUS and The Big Stone Guy go at it...] ---- "Sorority girls! I'll get you sorority girls!" "Nah...." [Christine tries to find a substitute for the obligation she owes Dan -- from NIGHT COURT] ---- "You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer." -- Robin Williams ---- It was pity stayed his hand. "Pity I don't have any more bullets," thought Frito. -- BORED OF THE RINGS ---- "This... this is a great pig." [Ham expresses his appreciation in THE BADGER] ---- "Don't believe a word she says, Monsieur! The sheep, they are all LIARS!" [A French citizen attempting to dissuade THE BADGER] ---- "Bah! You can't make a sow's ear out of a cheap thug!" [Ham re-iterates one of Circe's old complaints in THE BADGER] ---- Who says you can't have it all? a. Michelob Light. b. Heidegger. c. The IRS. -- A sane man ---- A good USENET motto would be a. "Together, a strong community." b. "Computers R Us." c. "I'm sick of programming, I think I'll just fuck around for a while on company time." -- A Sane Man ---- "He didn't run for reelection. `Politics brings you into contact with all the people you'd give anything to avoid,' he said. `I'm staying home.'" -- Garrison Keillor, LAKE WOBEGONE DAYS ---- "If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?" -- Garrison Keillor ---- Seen in TV Guide, describing the Star Trek episode _Amok_Time_: "Mr. Spock succumbs to a powerful mating urge and nearly kills Captain Kirk." ---- "And I'm a respected psychiatrist!" [Frasier Crane discussing homicidal tendencies towards Diane to Sam on CHEERS] ---- "Poor man... he was like an employee to me." [The police commisioner on SLEDGE HAMMER laments the death of his bodyguard] ---- "I know what I'm doing. Trust me." [The motto of SLEDGE HAMMER] ---- "That man makes Rambo look like Pee-Wee Herman." [The description of SLEDGE HAMMER] ---- "Hiyo God Damn Silver." [Oliver Queen in THE DARK KNIGHT FALLS] ---- "She has decades-- *decades*, left to her..." [Wayne comments on Robin in THE DARK KNIGHT FALLS] ---- "Who *was* that spud? Talks like my dad." "He used to fight crime." [Robin and Wayne discuss Oliver in THE DARK KNIGHT FALLS] ---- "Nothing we can't handle, folks. We're still America... and I'm still President." [Ronnie Regan as Mr. Reassuring in THE DARK KNIGHT FALLS] ---- "Isn't tonight a school night?" [Superman asks an interrogative of a traunt Robin in a tank in THE DARK KNIGHT FALLS] ---- "You gotta be cruel to be kind..." [Nick Lowe] ---- "Oh, dear Heavens, it's -- *gasp* -- the ROGUES!" "Lovely reading, Elvira... you should have gone into theatre." [Those experts from the Institute for Hyper-Normal Conflicts, in BLUE DEVIL] ---- "Hi. This is Dan Cassidy's answering machine. Please leave your name and number... and after I've doctored the tape, your message will implicate you in a federal crime and be brought to the attention of the F.B.I... BEEEP." [And the Devil Himself, from BLUE DEVIL] ---- "He's our leader! The wisest of us all! At least, that's what my parents always say." [Just another misguided super-ape from BLUE DEVIL] ---- "Look at that! It's AMAZING!" "You're right! How does he manage to speak and blow the pipe at the SAME TIME?!" [And DC continuity is wrecked again in BLUE DEVIL] ---- "And *this* -- this is for losing my new luggage, you SLIMEBALL!" [Race Bannon finally loses his temper in JONNY QUEST] ---- "DAMMIT, MacAlistaire... you'll *live* longer in civilization." "Jest seems longer." [MacAlistaire and the poet part (finally) in Journey] ---- "You FIEND! What have you done with Daisy?" "You IDIOT! She's arranging transportation to France!" "You TROGLADYTE! What's in France?" "Truffles, you demented bandicoot!" [Badger and Ham having a Tiff... in THE BADGER] ---- "You think this hat is stupid?" [Another stylistic MERC...] ---- "All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable." -- Fran Lebowitz ---- "If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?" -- Lily Tomlin ---- "Thank you for flying U.S.A.F. We hope that you will consider us again when your travel plans next include bombing Tripoli." [Anonymous Netter] ---- "He who uses an 8088 will be reincarnated as one." [Anonymous Netter] ---- "I think we should stop looking for issues to discuss. I think we should shut up and get to work." -- Howard Chaykin ---- "I use more sex than violence 'cause I know more about it." -- Howard Chaykin ---- "In a few years, I think we'll be marketing Marvel Comics like computer software." -- Archie Goodwin ---- "Creative people all come in and want their stuff printed on gold leaf." -- Jim Shooter ---- "We all have the capability for a good idea. We should have the ability to protect them, and the wisdom to share them." -- Jack Kirby ---- "CRISIS erased the mistakes of the last 50 years. It's up to us to make the mistakes for the NEXT 50 years." -- Marvel Wolfman ---- "It's really difficult to sympathize with someone who can bounce bullets off his chest." -- Frank Miller ---- "You must understand that I find The Batman a very noble character." -- Frank Miller ---- "Whom the gods would destroy, they first teach BASIC." [Anonymous Netter] ---- "Evil... pure and simple, from the Eighth Dimension!" [Our Man Buckaroo, seeing evil where no one else can... BUCKAROO BANZAI] ---- "Yes, it would be the easy way... but it wouldn't be the COWBOY way." -- Ranger Doug [From the musical group RANGERS IN THE SKY] ---- "If I were going to create a New Universe, I'd rest on the seventh day." -- Jack Kirby ---- "Catharsis is something I associate with pornography and crossword puzzles." -- Howard Chaykin ---- "Each Man must stand on his own!... Must answer to his own God!... I will probably WIN though..." -- Flaming Carrot ---- "Brother against brother!... Friend against friend!! DENTIST against DENTIST!!!" [Things go from bad to worse in FLAMING CARROT] ---- "In fact, Life *itself* is looking pretty meaningless, if not outright UGLY." "`Hill Street Blues' into reruns again?" [Milo and Binkley discuss enui... BLOOM COUNTY] ---- "Look at him! Just *look* at him! What's he doing?" "Scratching his head." "...with his foot. I quit!" [... and Opus looks at wrestling. BLOOM COUNTY] ---- "I am FLAMING CARROT! Even best friends fear me a little!" ---- "I am grim... and harsh... and ripe with fury! I fight and kill and howl and get *all bloody*! I go bowling whenever I want!" [The Carrot's statements on life...] ---- "Guess who's not hiding anymore? Ha-ha-ha!" [...and fair play. FLAMING CARROT] ---- "Kid -- riding a buffalo is dangerous! Keep the change and buy yourself a gravity knife and some fireworks." [Sound advice from THE BADGER] ---- "WHY!! It's the CULMINATION, son! The NEXUS point! The HOLE in the DONUT! The EVENT of the MILLENIUM! The GREATEST story ever TOLD, son! And YOU, I say, YOU ARE THERE!" [Elrod the Albino at a turnpike in history, in, ah say in, CEREBUS] ---- "...and then, of course, there's what's-his-name... the one who lives in Metropolis." [Batman cites precidents for inhuman sexual behavior in SWAMP THING] ---- "Get away from her, you BITCH!" [You wanna argue with a Woman Waldo? ALIENS] ---- "I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." [That lovable android from ALIENS] ---- "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." -- Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards ---- Kentucky: The state that needs Japan to bring it into the 20th century. [Anonymous Net Poster] ---- They seek him here, they seek him there; They seek that scoundrel everywhere! Is he in space, or traveling time? That damned Napoleon of Crime! [Moi] ---- David Letterman's "Things we can be proud of as Americans": * Greatest number of citizens who have actually boarded a UFO * Many newspapers feature "JUMBLE" * Hourly motel rates * Vast majority of Elvis movies made here * Didn't just give up right away during World War II like some countries we could mention * Goatees & Van Dykes thought to be worn only by weenies * Our well-behaved golf professionals * Fabulous babes coast to coast ---- "What do you mean... `NO MORE BODIES'!?" [A very perturbed NoMan] ---- "But your creed, your ethos... it was one of your most appealing features." "You know, Larry, sometimes I say things... and afterwards, I can't remember saying them." [The Yak and The Badger debate philosophy] ---- "They seek him here, they seek him there... they seek that Snowman everywhere! Is he in Youngstown -- or Cincinnati? That damned, elusive, two-ton Yeti?" [The Badger, In Search] ---- "I am out there saving the world from Commies and Martians who will eat your feet... and he's making peanut brittle in my washer!" [The Flaming Carrot bitches...] ---- "Gosh, Dr. Heller... even your Death Ray doesn't work!" "By Gar! How do you kill a dead dog?" [Flaming Carrot and Dr. Heller try to, err, kill, a dead dog] ---- "Flaming Carrot!" "I win!... I defeated DEAD DOG!" "But how?" "I wacked it apart with two-by-four!" [The secret to any battle, by my main man FC] ---- "Didja think one tool would change the world? We're a symbol -- the whole Star Key experiment... we're a walkin' allegory!" "Oh, yeah? An allegory of what?" "Of a good guy doin' a good job, no matter what it takes!" [Flyin' Ryan and Steelgrip Starkey] ---- "I'm going to kill everyone in this room." "Now that's DARN rude." [The Joker visits David Letterman] ---- "From the beginning, I knew... that there was nothing wrong with you... that I can't fix... with my hands..." [Archtypical Dark Knight] ---- "Whatever happened to him?" "Uh, well, he pulled it on Rorschach and Rorschach dropped him down an elevator shaft." [A Rorschach pique is discussed] ---- "You can shoot... the animals... in the forest... but you cannot... shoot the *forest*." [Nature and the Swamp Thing] ---- "Warning... Me--? YOU... are warning... ME...?" [Nature and the Swamp Thing] ---- "Contempt? Yes. Yes, I think that's the word. Contempt." [Abby Cable comments on the US courts in SWAMP THING] ---- "I feel the Need..." "The Need..." "FOR SPEED!" [Maverick and Goose in _TOP_GUN_] ---- "...pull upward slowly, lock elbow and apply pressure while pummeling opponent's skull with folding chair..." [Wide World of Wrestling with Opus in BLOOM COUNTY] ---- "He's going to kill me. I KNOW it. That's the kind of day it's been." [One of those days for the Black Cat] ---- "Yow! A genuine MARK OF THE DEVIL vomit bag! I can't throw up into this! *GLUG*" "My hat!" [The Badger samples Aussie hospitality] ---- "Addison, what are we going to do?" "Me, I'm examining the major Western religions. I'm looking for something that's soft on morality, generous with holidays, and has a short initiation period." [Dave and Maddie on Moonlighting] ---- "Don't worry son, the marines don't mind killing Martians." [Army philosophy in _Invaders_from_Mars_] ---- "...wow, look at all the spiders. I GUESS that's a good sign." -- overheard at the public beach, Rancho Seco Nuclear Power Plant cooling lake. ---- "Mayor of Kiev Declares May Indoor Sports Month" -Pravda ---- I will not drink! But if I do... I will not get drunk! But if I do... I will not in public! But if I do... I will not fall down! But if I do... I will fall face down so that they cannot see my Fluke badge. [Fellow Flukie] ---- "You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Net had one throat and I had my hands about it." -- Rorschach (1985) ---- "Is that a real poncho... I mean Is that a Mexican poncho or is that a Sears poncho?" [Frank Zappa, "Camarillo Brillo"] ---- "The doctor said I had dain bramage... But my friends don't know what 'dat shit is." [Seen on Net] ---- Definition of STRESS: That confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's desire to choke the living shit out of some asshole who desperately needs it! [fortunes program] ---- "Oh sure, this costume may look silly, but it lets me get in and out of dangerous situations -- I work for a federal task force doing a survey on urban crime. Look, here's my ID, and here's a number you can call, that will put you through to our central base in Atlanta. Go ahead, call -- they'll confirm who I am. "Unless, of course, the Astro-Zombies have destroyed it." -- Captain Freedom [Dennis Dugan as Captain Freedom on Hill Street Blues] ---- "Goldfish... what stupid animals. Even Wayne Cody stops eating before he bursts." [Local Seattle comedian] ---- "Women: can't live with 'em... Can't shoot 'em." -- David Addison ---- "Danger, you haven't seen the last of me!" "No, but the first of you turns my stomach!" [The Firesign Theatre's NICK DANGER] ---- Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood. [The fortunes program] ---- Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. -- Russian Proverb ----