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(Allen Thomson) wrote:

Ya know, though I have no doubt that Dan Q was a bit vague on the
details, and though I often enjoyed a chuckle thanks to him, I just
got a slightly eerie twinge about that famous quote.

I.e., it is pretty much right, or at least not too wrong:


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Again, I do not claim that DQ did or did not know what relation his
words had to physical reality. But if you analyze the text as
written, it's not a stretch to say that it's pretty much in line
with what a lot of today's planetologists would say, or at least
admit into the space of reasonable discussion.

A friend of mine is from Indiana and has long been perturbed by the
national reputation Quayle recieved. According to him, he always
seemed a sharp cookie, until exposed to the merciless glare of a
national media which *must* find something to hang a story on.

D.
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:42:54 GMT, (Derek
Lyons) wrote:

A friend of mine is from Indiana and has long been perturbed by the
national reputation Quayle recieved. According to him, he always
seemed a sharp cookie, until exposed to the merciless glare of a
national media which *must* find something to hang a story on.

....There is a theory about Quayl (SIC) that goes something along the
lines of "He really is quite intelligent, but simply was unable to
handle the pressure of being under nationwide scrutiny, and was merely
providing a textbook example of one form of stage fright."

Of course, I subscribe to that theory about as strongly as I believe
Shirley Chisholm had a chance of winning in '72...

OM

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Derek Lyons wrote:
A friend of mine is from Indiana and has long been perturbed by the
national reputation Quayle recieved. According to him, he always
seemed a sharp cookie, until exposed to the merciless glare of a
national media which *must* find something to hang a story on.

The story I heard, from people who had met him, is that he seemed to be
one of those unfortunate people who are intelligent and articulate in
private, but whose brains sometimes turn to mush when you shove
microphones in front of them. That doesn't have to happen very often for
someone to get a reputation for it, and then it's the only thing you'll
ever hear about them.
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Derek Lyons wrote:

A friend of mine is from Indiana and has long been perturbed by the
national reputation Quayle recieved. According to him, he always
seemed a sharp cookie, until exposed to the merciless glare of a
national media which *must* find something to hang a story on.



One of Quayle's teachers said this about him: "You look into those big
blue eyes, and it's like you're looking right out a window."

Pat