Quotations-of-the-year

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Dec 19 20:02:23 UTC 2007


At 12:32 PM -0500 12/19/07, Charles Doyle wrote:
>Featured on the Yahoo homepage: Our own Fred Shapiro's rankings of
>"quotations of the year":
>
>   http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071219/us_nm/usa_quotes_dc
>
>--Charlie
>
FWIW, the first two candidates appear together for the first time in
a current commercial for aol.news that urges us to keep with "the
latest flashes in the pan" (nice plural). This is the TV version--
http://digg.com/comedy/AOL_s_Hilarious_New_Ad_Don_t_Tase_Me_Bro_Others_Included
--although I prefer the radio one myself, which is a bit subtler.

LH

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