Re: How do you grow brocolli?
- From: Willie Wonka <floydstestemail@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:11:37 -0700 (PDT)
Kent West wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:principal,
George H. W. Bush made the famous campaign promise:1. The spelling card Quayle was holding, given to him by the school
Read my lips: no new taxes!
Dan Quayle was his VP, and famously misspelled "potatoe".
authorities putting on the spelling bee, had the "e" on the word.
2. "potatoe" is an acceptable, albeit archaic, spelling.
3. The audience in the room, including the Press corps, the
the superintendent, and the teacher who had written "potatoe" on theof a
card, applauded when the student added the "e" at Quayle's urging.
I daresay that the Press and anti-Quayle forces made a mountain out
molehill, and did so with not a little hypocrisy involved.a
(Note, I'm not particularly a fan of Quayle; really don't have an
opinion one way or the other about him, but I despise the Press'
spin-mongering, and don't much care for continued spread of
misrepresentations as gospel. No offense to Ron; just hoping to shine
little light on the subject.)
--
Kent
You mean like "Nuclear", as opposed to 'Dubbya's' *Nucular* pronunciation???
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