[Ads-l] Desperate Last Plea for Most Notable Quotations of 2014
Dan Goncharoff
thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Thu Nov 20 16:59:04 UTC 2014
If you want something from sports:
"He was just yappin' at me the whole time, So I took him and threw him out
of the club." -- Rob Gronkowski, talking about a play when he shoved Colts
safety Sergio Brown out-of-bounds.
DanG
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
wrote:
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> Subject: Desperate Last Plea for Most Notable Quotations of 2014
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> It's November 11 and I still don't have 10 quotations that I consider to
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> suitable for my annual list, run by the Associated Press, of the top 10
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> st notable quotations of the year. By =93notable=94 I mean
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> or =93famous=94 or =93particularly revealing of the spirit of our
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> rather than necessarily being eloquent or admirable. So I am renewing my
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> plea for suggestions of notable quotations from 2014, particularly ones
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> m politics or popular culture or entertainment or sports or business or
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> hnology.=0A=
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> Fred Shapiro=0A=
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