October 26, 2003: Honorable Mentions
Ah, friends, Romans, countrypersons of nonspecific gender. dontcha' just love the smell of warm roasting nuts. Me neither.For other great tangents, take calculus. In the mean time, this week's HONORABLE MENTIONS, or in most romance languages:
les menciones honorablessyou (just don't ask what the German is):
"Well, we weren't talking about it" -Mr. Harsanyi, on why he hadn't revealed that his father had shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics with John Nash
"They were a fairly small terrorist group; they only managed to kill a few people" -Mr. Harsanyi, on Weather Undergound, the final radical vestiges of the SDS
"To me, it's hard to understand why anyone would want to glorify the '70's" -Mr. Harsanyi
"I'm dainty" -Roz
"No, I'm going to be selfish and keep all my enlightenment to myself" -Micheline
"God's Grandeur rearranges to spell Rare Dogs' Dung" -Orlin, trying to dig deeper on an poem
"I decided that getting raped by a drug dealer was not a good use of my Columbus Day weekend" -Cori
"When Tali leaned over, I was never sure how she got back up" -Cori, on Tali Machnes
"I'm wearing a green kilt; I need to keep it on" -Cameron, on her denim overcoat
"It's like: you have a choice, but, really, you don't. Is ABC, NBC, or CBS really a choice? Well, yeah, the female broadcasters look different" -Tom Hayden, on freedom
"She's from Texas; she got out okay" -Tom Hayden, on his assisstant
"Dallas. I've seen it on TV" - Tom Hayden
"He didn't die. He went to Texas" -Wesley Morgan
"Who needs romance when you can have death?" -Andrea Lam, on inspiration
Now go on with the rest of your break. For the rest of you sad, pathetic people that aren't students at Commonwealth (a.k.a. Mick Jagger's Salt of the Earth), have fun working your buttocks* off.
-Ben "peace, love, dope, now get the hell outta' here!" Miller (brownie points for those of you who get the reference)
*but·tock
n.
1.
a. Either of the two rounded prominences on the human torso that are posterior to the hips and formed by the gluteal muscles and underlying structures.
b. The analogous part of the body on certain mammals.
2. buttocks The rear pelvic area of the human body.
[Middle English, from Old English buttuc, strip of land, end. See bhau- in Indo-European Roots.]
