<pre>Hello again, QOTW subscribers! I hope you've had a lovely summer, and I'm sorry this is coming to you half a day late.<br />(I realize this isn't the first email you've gotten from us this year, but it is the first I've sent.)<br /><br />Anyway, it seems we've all fallen right back into our old, familiar school-year habits, including the most unhelpful of them all: people really aren't submitting.<br />Do better this week and next week's email will be funnier!<br />To submit:<br />1. Go to http://www.qotw.net/submit.php<br />2. Type your little gem of overheard witticism into the big white box.<br />3. If you wish us to know from whom the submission comes, type your email address into the little white box.<br />4. Click the "Submit" button.<br />Not so hard, really, once you think about it...<br /><br />Anyway, last week's winner, as determined by <em>your</em> votes (well, the votes of those of you who actually voted, but we'll get back to that later) is Ms. Haber, with:<br /><br />"The Huns invading Europe was not like that song, 'There were 5 in the bed and the little one said, roll over, roll over, and they all rolled over and the Visigoths ended up in North Africa.' "<br /><br />Indeed it was not.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anyway, here's this week's batch of- well, I won't say "hilarity," but you get the idea.<br /><br />"I'm going from being the good-cop new teacher to being a bad guy like Mr. Sherry."<br />- Mr. Limperis
<br />"No, I lost my planetary sweater in India. One moment I was riding a mule, and the next, the sweater was gone."<br />- Gautam
<br />"I mean... they're not the same."<br />- Mark S., answering Ms. Bluestein's question as to the difference between a narrator and a poetic speaker<br /><br />"Oh, you people, are your souls not better than those at BUA?"<br />- Ms. Haber, explaining The Great Awakening
<br />"But we still have one HUGE problem... Matt is still in Andover!"<br />- Ms. Bardsley, emphasizing the gravity of the fact that a murderous, land-hungry Matt (in a US History role-playing scene), was still in town<br /><br />"You don't know who Betty Grable was? She was this long-legged... delicious... black-and-white movie star."
- Mr. Davis, imparting his mystifying wisdom to some ignorant young Disquieting Fiction students<br /><br />"They died!"
- Oscar L., answering the question "What happened to the compost buckets?"
<br /><br />Now you vote!<br />No, really. You reply to this email listing your top x choices where x is a member of [1, however many choices there are this week].<br />It's easy. Go to http://www.qotw.net/voting.php for more thorough instructions. Follow them. They are your friends, and will lead you to good things.<br /><br />A last note: if you aren't already subscribed to Honorable Mentions, you can do so by sending an email to Honorablementions_subscribe@qotw.net .<br />The Honorable Mentions list occasionally receives a collection of all the things that don't make it into the regular email for whatever reason.<br /><br />And, of course, one last plea: please, please do submit? This thing only really works when you all pitch in. We can't find a week's worth of material by ourselves.<br />That's about it, I think.<br />Enjoy!<br />- Asa "loves this sort of weather" Goodwillie<br /></pre>