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- From: popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Re: The Dan Quayle Dikshunary
- Message-ID: <De38VB2w165w@unkaphaed.gbdata.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 06:26:12 GMT
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- fledgist@weber.ucsd.edu (Fragano Ledgister) writes:
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- > In article <1992Dec22.195834.8853@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> pat@sphinx.phys.V
- > >Herbert Rutledge writes:
- > >
- > >> This entire lexical exercise, for which we are indebted to Jeff Wilder,
- > >> is an outstanding example of:
- > >
- > >
- > >> spirology n: the study of deviant vice-presidential behavior
- > >
- > >...often signaled by the dubious distinction of destructive, divisive discou
- > >from the permanently, prodigiously and proudly poison pens of basically
- > >bombastic, backward-looking, bench-warming Buchanans (didn't he write the
- > >"nattering nabobs of negativism" speech) and their ilk...
- >
- >
- > I think 'nattering nabobs of negativism' was one of Safire's
- > effusions.
- >
- >
- >
- > --
- > ____________________________________________________________________
- > Dawn over the dark sea brings on the sun;
- > She leans across the hilltop: see, the light!
- > --------------------------------------------------------------------
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- No. It was Pat Buchanan's. Safire wouldn't be caught dead writting a
- sentence strung to gether like that. It also has that Buchanan
- truculence about it.
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- Pope Charles
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