Doug Collins ® get this straight ® THERE’S A lot of fun around and we are all clowns, even though Joe Clark denies being one. So here’s the final batch of quotes for 1987, which Westbrook Pegler might have called a year of wonderful nonsense. If anybody should have been Slushed down the toilet, it should have been me, Vancouver Alder- man Ralph Caravetta. J only know him from his silly utterances on council. | think he’s a horse's ass. Alderman Harry Rankin; on Caravetta. If this country ever became a right-wing dictatorship, he’d be its Dr. Goebbels. Harry again; on Doug, your humble servant. Canada is a windbag democracy. Soviet citizen Arkady Berkutz, returning to the USSR after six years in Montreal. Canada does not operate like that, Premier Howard Pawley of Manitoba on the chances’ of Quebec getting the F18 contract even though the Manitoba bid was better; just before Quebec got it. it may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. The UK’s Margaret Thatcher. dt wasn’t your sort of average ’ retreat place. You could take your tle off but it didn’t make the decor go away. Prime Minister David Lange of New Zealand, on the Commonwealth ministers’ stuffy hideout in Kelowna. I'm sick and tired of obeying the law, I think we’ve got to do ~ j something. Bill Zander of the | Provincial Council of Carpenters; fon B.C.’s labor laws; proving that labor still has a fot to learn. There was a lot going on and 1977-1987 POLICE ROADCHECKS “DECEMBER: 8TH2= JANUARY. 33RD it’s awfully easy to forget something. President Ronald Reagan, on whether he knew anything about the hostage- ransoming plan in the Contra ‘scandal, When we have something to say we'll have something to say. Liberal leader John Turner, trying, to go one better than Mackenzie King. . The prime minister and the truth are not on easy terms. Turner again, being diplomatic. Ido not cross picket lines; never have and never will. The Great Baloney, showing again that he is a nincompoop. We are preparing for possible aggressions by the arch-Satan, the world-devouring U.S. and her Aireling servants. Tehran Radio, echoing the Great Ayatollah. fam not Ringling Brothers, I am the minister of external af- fairs. Joe Clark; trying to per- suade us of something. Mr. Vander Zalm is not an odd- ball, but he is not a ball-bearing, either. Globe & Mail editorial. Mr. Swangard will not be heading the exhibition any longer. , Tourism Minister Bill Reid. ZI want to make it abundantly clear that Mr, Swangard has not been fired. Tourism Minister Bill Reid; after having a few words with the premier. Buddha and Jesu; were friends! Shout from a woman during a fight in the Jegislature prayer- room. The Pope is a lobbyist. So is the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lob- byist Thomas d’Aquino of the Business Council on National Issues. The only reason I can think of is because he’s popular. David Chapman, killer of John Lennon; on being asked why he considered killing Johnny Carson. Hang in there, Maggie. Don’t give an inch, Streamer flown over the Commonwealth Conference site by a wise-guy. Mrs. Thatcher keeps forgetting that she was meant to be a grocer and nota prime minister. Do you hear that, you old cow? Actress Sarah Miles. Their slogan was ‘Show us your tits.’ News report on T-shirt signs displayed at the Indianapolis 500 road race by the “‘ignoroids.”’ This is a God-fearing country ex- cept for the month of May. In- dianapolis street-cleaner. The guys are spoiled. They can see naked women all the time and after the game there'll still be nak- ed women. I felt like doing my nails up there, Exotic dancer at a Vancouver pub; on being ignored during the Canada-Soviet hockey final. . Lo. Doug Collins is a human stink- bank, Cap College teacher Stan Persky. I’m beginning to believe in Christmas! 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