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- From: ralph@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (ralph.winslow)
- Subject: Re: The Dan Quayle Dikshunary
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:52:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.125212.7098@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec22.215519.10439@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1h89okINNj01@network.ucsd.edu>
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- In <1h89okINNj01@network.ucsd.edu> fledgist@weber.ucsd.edu (Fragano Ledgister) wrote:
- >In <1992Dec22.215519.10439@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> pat@sphinx.phys.Virginia.EDU (pat walsh) wrote:
- >>RAJA@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
- >>>The nattering nabobs of negativism is by W. Safire I think!
- >>>Nothing to do with Slac business....rajagopalan
- >>and fledgist@weber.ucsd.edu (Fragano Ledgister) writes:
- >>>I think 'nattering nabobs of negativism' was one of Safire's
- >>>effusions.
- >>Safire! Suffering succotash! A salient seismic seizure of the cerebrum has
- >>caused me to attribute this infamous quote to the wrong man! :-)
- >>
- >>The "nattering nabobs" quote is probably the most famous example, but didn't
- >>Spiro (and/or his speechwriters) display a fondness for alliteration on more
- >>than one occasion?
- >
- >Yes, they did. And Safire was frequently to blame. Another famous
- >phrase is at the tip of my tongue, but I can't quite remember it.
- >
- >ObQuayl(e): Happy campers you will always be.
-
- And I wrote that I thought that it was Spiro after all. It hasn't paid
- me that well to think in the past, and it appears that once again all
- my abuses of the sixties are coming home to roost; I stand abjectly
- corrected (but wiser). I think I'll pass on raking up any alledged
- alliterations by ol' Spiro, thanks.
-
- Quitting while only a little behind,
- Ralph
-