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<pre>Hello, all you loyal readers. It's been a couple of weeks, due to Hancock, but here we are, once again...<br /><br />The winner from two weeks ago was Aurélie, with an appropriately Hancock-themed warning:<br />"Can I tell you our flood story? Because it's better than Noah's."<br />Congratulations, Aurélie!<br /><br />This week's choices:<br /><br />"Hello? Hello? ... HELLO? HE- Oh, it's a text message."<br />- Miriam answering Josie's phone<br /><br />Melanie: "Maybe Banquo was past childbearing age... [laughter] you know, because men don't go through menopause."<br />Mr. Davis: "Oh yes, they do!"<br /><br />"Strapless is acceptable; topless is not."<br />- Mr. Hodgkins, on appropriate chorus attire for graduation<br /><br />"Don't screw with me, I read the whole MEH textbook. You trying to get me to invade Russia in the winter? Screw that, <br />I read the MEH textbook!"<br />- Talia L. (mildly censored), on reviewing for the AP<br /><br />"This is obvious to many of your parents, maybe not to you... Reproduction has a cost."<br />- Mr. Clifford<br /><br />"I think she's been on the rails of bitter irony for the whole book!"<br />- Matt B., embarking on a rather cynical train (hurr hurr) of thought in Disquieting Fiction<br /><br />"If I just massaged a piece of lead, I wouldn't die."<br />- Caleb W., explaining lead poisoning<br /><br />"Wow, I can't believe that animals just, like, walk around all the time."<br />- Layla<br /><br />"They're not called 'The Law Abiding Military Citizens,' are they? They're romanticizing brigands!"<br />- Mr. Clifford, on sports teamed named things like "The Pirates," etc.<br /><br />"You're nothing but a congealed glob of shaving cream on the ear of the world."<br />- Dan F.<br /><br />Vote, as usual, in a reply to this email, and according to these instructions: http://www.qotw.net/voting.php<br /><br /><br />There is, for once, no need to submit, as this is the last weekly email of the year! Next week we'll send out an <br />email with all of the weekly winners and you can vote on them. The week after we'll send out the grand Quote <br />of the Year finale, in which you can expected such wonders as the Quote of the Year, the Most Quotable Person <br />of the Year, and the fabled William Jennings Bryan Award.<br /><br />A bloated Honorable Mentions email will shortly follow this one; if you aren't already signed up, well, it's too <br />late for you, I'm afraid.<br /><br />Enjoy, vote, and relish in the fact that you don't need to feel guilty about not submitting.<br />- Asa "may you catch your exams sneaking up on you before it's too late" Goodwillie<br /></pre>
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