Wednesday, December 23, 1992 ~ North Shore News -- $ Remembering the quotes of ’?92, with relish YOU SHOULD he having 2 drink rather than readin these Quotes of the Year, | the choice of which springs 3 from a fevered mind — or so say the best authorities. I feel better now that I've given up hope. — Book title. Female snails with penises spark alarm. — Headline in The Van- couver Sun. Queen Victoria wouldn't like it. ~~ Labor Party MP Clive Soley, after the tabloid press showed pic- tures of U.S. businessman John Bryan sucking Fergie’s toes. Or perhaps it was the other way around? The Ontarians, (hey are the worst sons of ditches you can imagine. — Diane Wilthetmy, Quebec’s deputy minister of gev- ernmental affairs, who claimed her boss ‘‘caved in’ to English Canada. The argiophones are onthe floors. You don't want to keep hit- ting them when the battle is over. — Mayor Yvan Deschene of Rosemere, Quebec. What greater experience can there be than to play your first test match against the convicts? — Brit cricketer lan Botham, making himself popular Down Under. That’s why the Romans built the roads straight — so that the Pakis couldn't build corner shops. — Brave Ian B. again, on multicule. A int of female navy pilots are go-go Cancers, topless dancers or hooke+s. — U.S. Admiral Duval Williams, after a pilots’ party in Las Vegas. The admiral went down with his ship, of course. Today, people do not feel obliged to obey God; they expect God to obey them. -—— British col- umnist Peregrine Worsthorne, after the Church of England deci- sion to admit women to the priesthood: . Doug Collins ON THE OTHER HAND Our program was bullet-proof. — CBC man Brian McKenna, on his TV effort called The Valour and The Horror, which was shot down in flames by the CBC Om- budsman and others. They are enemies of Canada. — Brian Baloney, on the No forces during the referendum campaign. He (Trudeau) promises tv keep the state out of our bedrooms but negiected to mention that he would put it in ev>+y other room. — Maclean’s columnist. Barbara Amici. Perverts get break. — Headline in the Vancouver Province, ignor- ing the fact that they have been getting breaks ever since Trudeau screwed things up with his Charter: of Rights. If the Canadian government devoted half the time and energy to ordinary law enforcement that it has to incarcersting (and depor- — EVERY SUIT IN THE STORE EVERY SPORTCOAT wesrore D RESS S H IRTS Hathaway, Sero, Gant Ti ES pure silk, assorted pattems DRESS PANTS scimmocre, styiomaster SPORTS SHIRTS com, somaway ond other SWEATE RS Ingo, Toscani, Boston Traders CASUAL PANTS con, nautica, omers ‘@) U TE RWE A R Gant, Naulica, Aquascutum AC Cc E SS @) RI ES sox, belts, scarves REGULAR STOCK FROM LEADING CANADIAN AND INTERNATIONAL DESIGNERS PARK ROYAL - SOUTH MALL - MAIN FLOOR 44 !’m scared of Clinton. Too socialist. Face like a baby-food ad. 99 Len Saunders of Salmon Arm. You're white, man. — Black rioter in Los Angeles before beating up CKNW reporter ~ Liz Scobie, Sleepy Eye, Arkansas town librarian George Garrett. ting) David Irving, crime would be unknown. — Editorial in the Toronto Globe & Mail, talking sense for once. Why ban same-sex marriages? — Editorial in the same paper,- which appears to nave been cap- tured by the queers. Ismoked marijuana but I didn’t inhale. — Bill Clinton. 'm scared of Clinton. Too so- cialist. Face like a baby-food ad. — Liz Scobie, town librarian of Sleepy Eye, Arkansas. It seemed to the visiting Briton that America could not confer the presidency on the embodiment of National Congress. Gorillas armed with stolen rifles terrorizing Africa. — Weekly World News, a tabloid, speaking truer than it thought. What's the big deal about being a white supremacist? {f you’re black and you stand up for Delicious. Better than pig or chicken. — Former cannibal in Indonesia, remembering the good old days, with relish. They weren't fired. They were replaced. — Mike Harcourt, deny- ing that the BC Rail board of directors had been thrown out of the caboose. ye are a bedperson. yourself you're a bloody hero. But if you're white and do the same, all of a sudden you're a racist. — T don’t care how old you are. And God rest ye merry. Even if the 1960s — on a drait-dodging, retized pot-bead shackled to a feminist intellectual. — British columnist Frank Johnson, con- fessing he was wrong. You have absolutely exhausted me. 1 feel seriously knackered. — (Former) British cabinet minister David Mellor, after making love to his actress girlfriend, in a con- versation taped by a British tabloid. They make strange bedpersons. ~— Mary Collins, MP and Defenc Lady; being linguistically lousy; on Preston Manning and Judy Rebick. When he gets out of medicine, we'll get oul of politics. — Poster put out by the B.C. Medical Association on Mike Harcourt. Winnie's in the Pooh — graffit in South Africa on Winnie Mandela, dumped by the African e UP TO 50% OFF UPTO 50% OFF 30% or we10 IO% on we10 DO or 10 IO % or 50% OFF 50% OFF UPTO 50% OFF & A Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance 40 ; fo 60” ” OFF aYO S by andlelight hour traditional Christmas be service of warmth and cel@yvation for the whole family. 6:30 p.m. December 24th Nerth Shore Alliance Church 201 East 23rd Street (1 block east of Lonsdale) * SPECIAL HOURS * FOR THIS EVENT SATURDAY DEC. 26 8AM-5PM SUNDAY DEG. 27 10AM-5 PM NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE DURING THESE HOURS