Quotable quotes from 1998

BUT enough tirades
from me for this year.
Here’s a collection of
quotes, wise, witty and
otherwise, excerpted
from News stories dur-
ing 1998.

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“Some drivers are so
stupid that gates are the
only thing to stop them
from damaging valuable

\ trains.”

Deep Cove resident
Damian Inwood. providing
candid response to the Oct.
2 News Inquiring Reporter
question: “Should train
crossings on the North
Shore all be gated for safe-
ty?"

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“1 happen to think rot-

ting human remains and

North Vancouver City
Coun. Barbara Perrault,
conjuring unpleasant cock-
tail recipes while arguing
against the installation of a
water main through the city
cemetery. (From a Feb, 27
News story.)

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“For instance the new
RCMP police chief was
named Fuchs, only the h
became a k (42 times in
one story). That’s when I
walked.”

The late Ralph Hall, on
the typo that precipitated his
departure from the old
North Shore Citizen news-
paper. (Front a May 20
News story.)

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“It’s like Godzilla
comes to Horseshoe Bay.”

West Vancouver District
councillor and Japunese
horror movie buff Liz Byrd,
on the likelihoad of the
British Culumbia Ferry
Corp.'s ignoring municipal
input on the design of a
major upgrade to the ferry

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yarns

terminal. (fram an Ocr 28
News story)
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“Lying, suppressing evi-
dence and witness tamper-
ing is laughable, but we've
all come to expect that
from our politicians.”

Poppi Reiner. with some
street-level wisdom in
response to the Sept. 18
News Inquiring Reporter
question: “Do you think that
President Bill Clinton
should be impeached?”

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“This is not my report.”

Consultant George Cuff
(in a Sept. 23 News story)
handing back an unopened
copy of his organizational
and management review of
West Vancouver's municipal
structure after it had been
edited for public release.
The report has since been
delivesed to the public in
further drips and drabs. It is
sull not George's report. Its

“not West Vancouver's either.

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“That’s why they call it
‘minor’ hockey.”

North Vancouver lawyer
Jay Straith, on a cocka-
mamie dispute involving the
ownership of the Griffins
hockey team in West
Vancouver. (From a Jan. 7
News Cheap Seats column.)

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“After I saw it, I
thought about charging
the kids to ride it.”

Jeff Harris, on the 7.5 cm
longhorn beetle his family
found on West Vancouver's
Sandy Cove beach. (From a
Sept. 2 News story.)

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“It didn’t occur to him
that there’s such a thing as
tides. All he said is the
rocks are rising.”

Bruce Falkins. a North
Shore Lifeboat Society
inember, describing the res-
cuc of aman stranded on
rocks. (Fram a daly 12 News
Marv)

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ever mind charisma,
he doesn’t have enough of
anything.”

Dawn Clucis, responding
to the July 12 News
Inquiring Reporter question:
“Would you vote for a ted-
eral Conservative Party led
by Joe Clark?”

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“... the B.C. Lions of
Canadian politics.”

The razor-witted Straith
again. describing the federal
Reform party and the job it
has done as the Official
Opposition. (From an Aug.
21 News story.)

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“May God forgive you."

The world’s wackiest
juror. Gillian Guess. to B.C.
Supreme Court Justice
Raymond Paris, after she
was sentenced to 18 months
in jail on a charge of
attempting to obstruct jus-
tice. (From an Aug. 26 News
story.)

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“This is a terrible piece
of legislation, a shameful
document. As a Canadian
and a British Columbian,
I'm embarrassed by it.
This exposes everybody —
and not just (Doug)
Collins — to the arbitrary
power of the state.”

Journalism professor and
former executive secretary
of the B.C. Press Council
Gerry Porter, on NDP
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code that limit free speech
and have resulted in the
News and retired columnist
Doug Collins appearing
before two human rights tri-
bunals to fice the same
complaint, (From a duly 29
North Shore News storv)
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“Ive never known
looking both ways to cost
$141,000."

North Vancouver District
Coun, Lisa Muri. during
discussion of funding fora
crossing guard program in
North Vancouver District.
(From a duly 22 News
SIOTN. )

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“Its like watching
grass grow.

Unidentified woman
observing the Gillian Guess
circus and trial. on the
trial’s level of excitement.
(From a May 31 North
Shore News story.)

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“They're actually going
to set up a commissar of
cutting red tape which is a
joke because, of course,
that means another
bureaucracy to, guess
what, cut bureaucracy.”

West Vancouver-
Capilano MLA Jeremy
Dalton. on more good ideas
from Victoria. (From an
April 1 News story)

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“I will conclude by
saying that I am 77 years
of age, that I defended
freedom in the 1940s
when Hitler was on the
loose, in the 1950s when
McCarthy was on the
loose, in the 1970s when
the federal hate laws were
passed, in the 19905 when
thase idiots in Victoria
passed their misnamed

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