August 10, 2003:
QOTW Members:Sorry to be a little late with this email. I was on a Prodigious ROOOAD Trip. Any attempts at further explanation would be futile.
This week's Honorable Mentions are pretty weak (i.e. they consist of two letters and a punctuation mark), but Honorable Mentions is still the best thing to happen to QOTW since the birth of Eloise "Child Prodigy" Fourth Grader. So you should send me an email telling me you want to join the exclusive Honorable Mentions club.
This Week's Quotes:
"Look! A bullet-breathing fire guy!" -Rhode Islander, on a fire-eater
"'The Garden State'? They should change it to 'The Apocalyptic Death State'!" -Jenn, while on the New Jersey Turnpike
"I got a shot of the fire chief coming out and lighting a cigarette." -Our favorite (amateur) investigative reporter, on the behavior of the fire chief during a fire in our Philadelphia hotel
"C'mon, this is a planet that had ONE composer who was ALMOST brilliant." -The alien in my dream, arguing for the destruction of earth
"Whoa, I wish I knew someone who was into plagues. Besides me." -Jenn, reading "The Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence"
"Delaware: Small, but Wonderful." -A postcard from "Dela-where?"
"My only defense in a cold and hostile world of pedestrians is to walk fast." -Julian
"The internet service is ninety nine dollars... wait, no..." -Paula, good-natured employee at a New haven hotel, on the $10.99 internet service
"There's still plenty of time for that. Besides, we weren't exactly Romeo and Juliet; his parents like me... I think. Well, they gave us condoms, at any rate." -Micheline, on her relationship with Jeff
"I want to test my theory 'never trust anyone with the initials JH.'" -Julian Hyde, friend of Josh Haselkorn
And to apologize for the higher-than-usual level of inside jokes (or things that look like inside jokes, anyway), here's a special bonus quote, watered down for mainstream consumption:
"Do you eat slaughtered meat? Yes? Good, you're not part of the problem, you're part of the solution." -Matt, to Kate
-Ben "all airborne, all the time" Orlin
