March 28, 2004:
Voters, Quoters, and Other Free-Loaders:Last week--as he is wont to do--Norris Wong made history. He won the most overwhelming victory in QOTW history, earning 75% of the popular vote with his remark "I want to glaze this pot a color that is vibrant... something that makes girls say, 'How manly, yet nurturing.'" Congratulations to Norris, and here's hoping he can replicate this victory in November's general election.
In response to depressingly low voter turnout in recent weeks, QOTW is relaxing its voting requirements. If you want to vote the classy way, go to http://www.qotw.net/~qotw/howtovote.html and follow those instructions. But if you're a corner-cutting slacker, just reply to this email and put your favorite quote in the email body.
This week's nominated quotes:
"We're all little infinitives, are we not? And we get conjugated along the sentence of life." -Mr. Davis
"You looked deep into her eyes and you said 'no thanks' and you stole her heart." -Fiona, on a peculiar instance of "love at first sight"
"I'll major in engineering, then go to law school, then wear a suit, and after that my vision ends." -John Oliverio, mapping out his future
"It's a way to see an animal's inner beauty." -Jenny, on eating meat
"El PP es los republicanos. żLos republicanos son los malos, no?" -Jave, equating Spanish politics to American politics. (Translation: "The PP is the Republicans. The Republicans are the bad ones, right?")
"You poser. You're like the N*SYNC of slacking off. Completely commercial. Doing it for looks. Sure, all the teen girls idolize you. But you're not living it." -Roz, arguing that there's more to procrastination than meets the eye
"The nice thing about the Classic Sports Network is that Magic Johnson is never HIV positive." -Becca
"The Allman Brothers Band... were the real masters of the impromptu solo; they routinely dragged songs out fifteen or twenty minutes. And people wonder why their touring keyboardist committed suicide." -Ben Miller
"That's not a language. That's a disease." -An old Norweigan man, on Swedish
"Juliet, you're dead darling. Die." -An acting teacher at the Globe theater, to a young student
"Reading the QOTW email and not voting is like attending Commonwealth School for the sports program." -QOTW, employing a cryptic similie to try to persuade people to vote (NOTE: this is a decoy advertising quote, not one to be voted for)
Voting, as always, closes Friday at 5:00.
If you would like to be treated to extra gobs of delightful quotes, free of charge, you should sign up for Honorable Mentions by sending an email to this address with the following secret password: "Sign me up for Honorable Mentions." And if that's STILL not enough quotes for you, just start hanging out with Julian Hyde; he's usually good for a few laughs.
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