[QOTW] Quote Of The Week, Oct. 17th

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Hello, faithful subscribers!
You subscribe quite well- that much is
true.
I imagine you do a pretty great job of reading, too, though I'm
not there to see you read these emails.
Submitting, however, is not your
strongest point.
There, at least, I can see that there's some effort and
memory required. Voting, on the other hand, requires but three
things:
1) that you have some sort of preference between the week's
submissions;
2) that you be capable of clicking "reply";
and 3) that you
then type your ranking of the quotations into the reply email and send
it.

I find it hard to believe that only six of you were up to that this
week. You're really missing out on a wonderful opportunity at
participatory democracy, guys! It's very exciting.

Last week's winner
was:

"Whenever there's a cow, I want to talk about it. A cow is never
by accident."
- Ms. Dale

I've never thought of cows as creatures of
great purpose, myself, but I guess you learn something new everyday,
especially if Ms. Dale is talking about farm animals.

This week's
choices, of which you'll note there are only nine (hmmm, if only there
were something you could do to remedy this...):

"I exceeded my hug
limit for the next ten years."
- Molly L., after being
group-hugged

"Raffi sang 'Baby Beluga' to me. It was magical."
- a Yale
tour guide on a certain musical guest 

Tricia: "I have inadvertently
subsidized a shrimp assassin."
Keller: "Don't worry. It was a shrimp
murderer. Shrimp aren't prominent enough for assassins."

"Yes, that was
regarded as the absolute embodiment of sonic evil. If they heard it they
would have to run from the room and clean out their ears or
something."
- a music professor at Mount Holyoke

Eloise: "Clovis
commanded an army when he was fifteen."
Tahmid: "I know! I'm so jealous!
How come he gets the power of God on his side?"

"You can't push that
too far, because Nietszche would get angry at you, and believe me, you
don't want that man angry at you. Even dead, he's dangerous."
- a
philosophy professor at Mount Holyoke

"You're such a mammal."
- JP,
commenting on Alex B.'s hot-bloodedness

"One minute they're killing
people, the next minute they're buying milk for nuns! What lovely
people."
- Kate's roommate, describing a Spanish short story

"Can you
sneeze in a French accent?"
- Mr. Davis, to some French students

Do you
think they're funny? If so, tell us which ones are the funniest by
voting! Instructions here: http://www.qotw.net/voting.php
If you don't
(well, regardless of whether or not you do, but especially if you
don't): make next week better by submitting using this lovely little
tool: http://www.qotw.net/submit.php. Please? We definitely got more
submissions than this last year, and I'm sure we can get up there
again.

That's it for this week, other than the obligatory plug for the
Honorable Mentions list, which periodically sends out all of the
not-quite-good-enough-to-make-the-regular-email submissions and to which
you can subscribe by sending an email to
honorablementions_subscribe at qotw.net.

  Enjoy, and please do submit and
vote.
- Asa "feels slightly futile, what with this weekly (well,
bi-weekly, but Shaul's doing it when I'm not) begging" Goodwillie  
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