April 25, 2004:
Voters:Last week's winner was Mr. Phillips, who said, "I am not a geeky boy. Iam a geeky man!"
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This week's nominated Quotes:
"This was an age when candidates were chosen by bosses in smoke-filled rooms. To use a cliché. I don't know how much smoke there really was." -Mr. Young, on the nomination process of the late 19th century.
"I went to the school of hard knocks. And as you can tell, I am graduating summa cum laude." -Paul Cavallaro
"See, I do have impulse control; I didn't bite your arm." -Erin McCabe, to Rhett duPont
"My teenage angst feelings are so perfectly expressed through blink182's meaningful lyrics." -Norris Wong
"A sensible country. Or at least a country that has a sensible measurement system." -Alex George, on Canada
"I would suggest that after months and years of pointing to the obvious--signaling to the elephant in the middle of the living room--and turning over backwards to keep a constructive ethical tone while observing others who use guerilla warfare to score, one feels the need to stand in the middle of the road and loudly state that the proverbial king has no clothes on!" -Lydia Rivera-Abrams, in an editorial in the Winchester Star
"From now on I'm going to dedicate my life to making your life less miserable than I have made it in the past." -Joshua Rifkin, to his wife
"It was hot in those Birkenstocks, let me tell you!" -Jean, on running the marathon as part of a gang of radical lesbians
"My sleeping hours are 'at random' at this point, so any time to call is as good as any other time." -Mr. Harsanyi, giving students his home phone number
"You are THE most obnoxious child." -Ms. Bluestein, to Ben Miller, after he chuckled when she said Ms. Brewster had experience with literary critiquing and "other kinds of writing"
"You know where you are? You're in crazyville. You get there on the crazy train, after taking too many crazy pills." -Julian
The virtual voting booth closes at 5:00 pm on Friday. Special bonus recognition to anyone who can spot all six metaphors Lydia mixes in her quote.
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