Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > George H. W. Bush made the famous campaign promise: > > Read my lips: no new taxes! > > > > Dan Quayle was his VP, and famously misspelled "potatoe". > > > 1. The spelling card Quayle was holding, given to him by the school > 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 principal, > the superintendent, and the teacher who had written "potatoe" on the > 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 of a > molehill, and did so with not a little hypocrisy involved. > > (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 a > little light on the subject.) > > > -- > Kent
You mean like "Nuclear", as opposed to 'Dubbya's' *Nucular* pronunciation??? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
