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Dick Armey marches on! (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Rose)
Fri Mar 17 17:35:32 1995
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 17:34:12 +0001 (EST)
From: Derek Rose <rosed@world.std.com>
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
thought this might be of interest....
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Date: 15 Mar 1995 15:38:22 GMT
From: Todd Seavey <Todd_Seavey@kaplan.com>
To: 74157.2567@compuserve.com, nugent@husc.harvard.edu, jtlevy@princeton.edu,
jforeit@earth.fjc.gov, rosed@world.std.com
Subject: Dick Armey marches on!
Dear ones,
Things are a bit slow here, so I thought I would amuse myself by recounting
the Dick Armey story I heard from a Phil Gramm-loving couple I met here in
NYC. According to them, Armey was asked on a recent news show: "Aren't you
worried that if the line-item veto passes, it might be used to cut some
program you want?" And Armey, without a pause, said, "I don't want anything."
In other News news, specifically the New York Post, newsguy Kyle Smith has
been assigned to do a story in which theatre and film critics review F. Lee
Bailey's performance in the Simpson trial. Expanding the parameters a bit, he
decided to call Camille Paglia after finding her number in his rolladex. Her
answering machine said: "You have reached Camille Paglia. You did not get
this number from Camille. Please call... " and gave some other number.
Nonetheless, he left a message and she called back with some very fast
critical observations and apologies for having a PMS day.
I suggested that Kyle might also want to compare Bailey's current performance
to his performance in the Single Worst Episode of Star Trek (with the
possible exception of "Spock's Brain," in which Spock's Brain is stolen--but
at least that one has camp value and may have provided the inspiration for a
recent episode of Star Trek: Voyager in which, according to Ali Kokmen, one
of the main character's lungs were stolen and had to be temporarily replaced
with "holographic" lungs). The original series--if I remember
correctly--featured an episode in which the Enterprise encountered a world
where all the parents had died and the children had fallen under the evil
influence of a being masquerading as a guardian angel who sort of looked like
a floating head in a shiny aura, played by F. Lee Bailey. Kyle's looking into
it and hoping Paramount has photos.
Yours respectfully,
Todd
