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- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!gumby!destroyer!ais.org!spencer
- From: spencer@ais.org (Spencer PriceNash)
- Subject: Re: Say it ain't so!!!
- Message-ID: <C03LEq.60H@ais.org>
- Organization: UMCC
- References: <1992Dec30.153557.14225@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:30:24 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Dec30.153557.14225@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> pat@sphinx.phys.Virginia.EDU (pat walsh) writes:
- >garrett@Ingres.COM (MMMMM...ESSENCE OF GELFLING) writes:
- > [...]
- >(discussion about the rumors of a Quayle museum or statue in Huntington,
- > Indiana)
- > [...]
- >>I wonder about the size and content of it. Will it be closet size?
- >>Will it be the first library that deals exclusively with comic books?
- >> And if it a statue, what pose might he strike?
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Why, there's only one possible choice, and the photo on which the artwork
- >must be based already exists! It's the famous photo, recently discussed in
- >this group, of Dan in danger of blowing off his own elbow with a missile
- >launcher (or grenade launcher or whatever the bloody thing was) because he's
- >holding it backward. And, just as the original V-shaped wall of the Vietnam
- >memorial in Washington was eventually supplemented by a statue of three
- >soldiers, the Dan statue too must be supplemented by figures of the two South
- >American officials looking on in amusement. Finally, over one of the
- >officials there must be a bronze thought balloon bearing the words "What a
- >dope!", preferably in both Spanish and English.
- >
-
- I've got to get in to work after the holiday break is over and post the
- caption for that photo. It came from the New York Times and belonged
- to a co-worker. I wish I'd written down the date of the photo, though
- it must have been in several newspapers.
-
- Yeah, that would be an excellent choice for the statue pose.
-
-
- >- Patrick Walsh
- > University of Virginia Department of Physics
- > pw@virginia.bitnet, pw@virginia.edu, pat@gomez.phys.virginia.edu
- --
- Spencer PriceNash spencer@spencer.ann-arbor.mi.us spencer@ais.org
- "We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward." -- Quayle
-