Sunday, November 13, 2005

say wat?

1. "Let's get things straight. The police aren't here to create disorder. The police are here to preserve disorder." - Mayor Richard J. Daley during 1968 Chicago riots  

2. Ketchup is to "be counted as one of the two vegetables required as part of the school lunch program." - U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1981  

3. "Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life." - Senator Orrin Hatch, 1988  

4. "We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation of what newspapers can report." - South Africa Ministry of Information, 1988  

5. Instead of lying to Congress, he said he was offering "a different version from the facts." - Lt. Col. Oliver North, 1987  

6. "When I sell liquor it's called bootlegging. When my customers serve it on silver trays on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality." - Al Capone during Prohibition  

7. "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win it, you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin  

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