May 3, 2003:
Sorry this email was late. Power was out here in Winchester (don't laugh) today. Or at least it was at my house.Last week's landslide victor: "Did anyone else feel like they were doing the hokey pokey? You know, you put your sexuality in, you take your sexuality out, you put your liberalism in and you shake it all about." -Joanna, on the Health and Community Workshop on 'identity'. Joanna got 11 of 21 first place votes, the highest total and highest percentage ever.
How to vote: contact me if you're confused.
And now, this week's NOMINEES (thanks to Bess for her clutch movie memory skills):
"The finest work of fiction you ever wrote, Josh." -Kominsky, to Josh, on the latter's history research paper
"Today I smite; yesterday I smote; and I have smoot." -Becca
"They should have the flags at half staff." -John, at Fenway Park, heading into the ninth inning of an 11-7 Red Sox loss
"It's a film noir movie with the lovely Lauren Bacall, who my mother actually TOUCHED in Cape Cod..." -Mr. Conolly, on the film Dark Passage
"Blood-spurting groins are cool; racism is not." -Becca
"That's what I call campaign shock and awe!" -Miller, on Manny Ramirez stealing second base
"Nital." -Kate, in response to accusations that Latin is an inherently backwards language
"You'd never make it in the army." -Mr. Davis, to noisy Commonwealth students as he tried to get them to fill out the preliminary AP test forms
"You can only have pacifism after you pacify everyone else." -Isaac
"[Pope] Innocent IV was not the son of [Pope] Innocent III." -Ms. Grant
As always, you can double your QOTW ration and hear the winner immediately after it's decided every Tuesday by joining the QOTW Honorable Mentions club (subject to further name change).
Voting ends 5:00 Tuesday afternoon.
-Ben "sometimes there's a fine line between QOTW and lying, and sometimes there's no line at all" Orlin
May 3, 2003: Honorable Mentions
Hot of the presses: this week's winner was "Today I smite; yesterday I smote; I have smoot." -BeccaThe Honorable Mentions:
"It's this goddamn Republican administration." -Mr. Davis, on the letter "w" being called a vowel
"Extramarital sex sounds like a discount. 'On sale, with extramarital sex!'" -Becca
"I think water balloons filed with nerve gas are not a family-friendly duel instrument." -Julian
"I'm all for stealing if you steal cool stuff." -Dewey
"Pacifiers are like methadone for babies." -Joanna
"Just assume I'm lying until I tell you otherwise." -Miller
"In order to achieve a truly balanced society, we must strive to tear down all boundaries and cross all barriers to incorporate both men and women." -Julian, in response to the "fists in faces" crisis (don't worry, it didn't make sense at the time either)
As always, everybody's invited to send in good quotes they hear. Feel free to nominate yourself, too. Modesty is a losing strategy when it comes to QOTW.
-QOTW Management
