WHO SAID IT #5

"I have girlfriends that love gratuitous violence, blood and gore and people getting carved to pieces."

A. Ellen DeGeneres
B. Ed McMahon
C. Prince
D. Prince Harry
E. Prince Philip
F. Alan Thicke
G. Chris Zelez, female horror movie fan

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"If you look at his picture, he has a smile on his face,"

A. Raw foods pervert Dan Hoyt
B. Spokane Mayor Jim West
C. Emmett Kelly
D. Palm Beach County sheriff's spokeswoman and Rush Limbaugh fan, Teri Barbera
E. Jesus, in his high school graduation photo

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A CONTRIBUTION:

SportsQuotes follows a breaking story

WHO SAID IT #4

"I can't take full responsibility for what my attorneys do."

A. Ken Lay
B. Corrado "Uncle Junior" Soprano
C. The RIAA
D. Scooter Libby
E. My aunt Ethel, after her bogus personal injury claim was thrown out of court

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"... people don't want to know what meat is. They don't think of meat as an animal; they think of it as an element of a meal."

A. Hannibal Lechter
B. Raw food pervert Dan Hoyt
C. Sanctimonious "New Yorker" Bill Buford
D. Anyone who has ever had a burger at Applebee's
E. Armin Meiwes (who?)

A free iPod goes to the first person who supplies the correct answer*

*Please enclose $250 processing and handling fee in order to claim your prize.


CONTRIBUTORS:

A victim of usury gets little sympathy from InsideDisney.

I guess the Experts hate America.

WHO SAID IT?

"If God wrote my biography, I wouldn't like it."

A. Jerry Falwell
B. Pope Benedict
C. Barbra Srteisand
D. Oral Roberts
E. Umberto Eco
F. The Duke lacrosse team

big surprise

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"Since eels do not keep diaries," ...the only way to determine gender was to cut and slice, "but in vain, all the eels which I cut open are of the fairer sex."

A. Young Ted Bundy
B. "Killer Clown" John Wayne Gacy
C. Young Sigmund Freud
D. Famous sushi chef Masahuro Morimoto
E. One of the sharks in "Finding Nemo"

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"I'm looking for Ms. Right. I'd love to do The Bachelor. That would be perfect for me. I've been single too long. I need to settle down and try the love thing for a while."

A: New Jersey governor Jon Corzine
B. Robert Blake
C. OJ Simpson
D. Bart Simpson
E. The ubiquitous Gilbert Arenas


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SPORTSQUOTES jumps on the "Who Said It?" bandwagon:

"Unfortunately, I can't talk about any legal business.... But when things are sorted out, I'll be more than happy to tell my side of the story so you can find out what happened."

A. O.J. Simpson
B. Ray Lewis
C. Robert Blake
D. Ricky Manning, Jr.
E. All of them, of course.

E is the correct answer. Who said it most recently here.

DON'T WORRY, KAAVYA. THEY SAID THE SAME THING ABOUT ME WHEN I WROTE THAT BOOK ON THE DANGERS OF WHALING.

BOSTON -- The publisher of a 19-year-old Harvard University sophomore's debut novel is investigating the work because it includes several passages that are similar to a book published in 2001.

Kaavya Viswanathan's "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life" was published in March by Little, Brown and Co., which signed her to a hefty two-book deal when she was just 17.
On Sunday, the Harvard Crimson reported the similarities on its Web site, citing seven passages in Viswanathan's book that parallel the style and language of "Sloppy Firsts," a novel by Megan McCafferty that Random House published.

details, details

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IS THAT A THICK SOCK IN YOUR BOOT, PAAVO, OR ARE YOU JUST GLAD TO SEE ME?


Finns are so uncomfortable with themselves, says Alexander Stubb, a Finnish member of the European Parliament, that when they meet someone for the first time, they stare at their own feet. Then, after 10 years of friendship, they stare at the other person's feet.

all the news

AND OJ IS STILL LOOKING FOR THE REAL KILLER

SAN JOSE - As oil prices hit a record, drivers worried about $3-a-gallon gas and politicians feared the impact on elections, President Bush on Friday acknowledged the pain but seemed resigned to being able to do little about it.

"I know the folks here are suffering at the gas pump," the president said while promoting his competitiveness initiative at the Silicon Valley headquarters of Internet networking company Cisco Systems Inc. "Rising gasoline prices is like taking a - is like a tax, particularly on the working people and the small-business people."

But to address the immediate problem, Bush offered only a pledge that "if we find any price gouging it will be dealt with firmly."

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CONTRIBUTIONS

SPORTSQUOTES has a nostalgic post:

"... I was surprised to see that Bill Madlock is black. Mostly, blacks don't go by Bill, you know. They call themselves Willie."

Whitey Herzog's first day managing the Texas Rangers, 1973

lots more here

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MONKEYSAYS (I think this site is actually fiction) has a man in street report:

"Guess who I saw at the FoodMart?" I asked.

"Who?" LZ responded.

"Chase Utley," I said.

"Who?" LZ repeared.

"Chase Utley," I said once more.

"I heard you," LZ said, "I meant, who is Chase Utley?"

"He's on the Phillies," I said. "Plays second base, I think."

"And he was in the FoodMart?" LZ said.

"Buying Pop Tarts," I said. "They were on sale."

"Hmm," LZ said.

"He's very pasty, a little overweight, and has bad skin," I said. "You wouldn't know it from the tv."

"A fat man with bad skin who plays for the Phillies was buying discount Eggos in the FoodMart down the street?" LZ stated.

"Pop Tarts," I corrected.

"How can you be sure it was him?" LZ asked.

"He was wearing a Phillies shirt," I said. "The striped version, and his name was on it."

WHO SAID IT?

''I feel like smacking you in the face, mate, stay away from me.''

A. Queen Elizabeth
B. Julian Barnes
C. Martin Amis, to Julian Barnes
D. Pete Doherty
E. All of the above, at one time or another

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LATEST CONTRIBUTIONS

FROM TOMORROWKNOWS: (common atrocities)

School big pleads guilty in sex sting

A Manhattan high school administrator who bragged about sexual liaisons with teenagers was nabbed trying to hook up with more underage girls in an Internet sting operation, authorities said yesterday.

Steven Mark Rubinstein, 49, an assistant principal at Murry Bergtraum High School, pleaded guilty to kiddie porn and child enticement charges in White Plains Federal Court.

School officials reassigned Rubinstein last month after learning of the allegations and will move to fire him, a Department of Education spokeswoman said.

Using the handle "DaddyMark," Rubinstein sent sexually explicit messages from his home and school computers to federal agents posing as 13-year-olds over the past year, prosecutors said.

Rubinstein, who lives in Poughkeepsie, claimed in the cyberchats that he'd had sex with 15-year-old and 17-year-old girls in the past. After trading messages with the undercover officers, he requested a meeting so he could addthem to his list of conquests. When confronted, Rubinstein admitted trying to meet the "girls" but shied away from an actual rendezvous when he became suspicious that he was dealing with officers.

A teacher since 1985, Rubinstein also admitted downloading and trading images of child pornography over the Internet. Authorities said they seized images of minors having sex withadults from his computer. Rubinstein faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison when he is sentenced July 10.

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FROM SPORTSQUOTES: (this one came to me in a dream)

--"I went to a Billy Joel concert at the Staples Center on Wednesday. Billy Joel was rockin'. I went with my family and had a great time. I'm a huge fan. We were all waiting for "Piano Man." It was his last song. He saved the best for last."

Excerpt from Matt Leinart's diary
Read the rest of the the installment here.

FROM EXPERTSSAY: (there's one born every minute)

U.S. Bird Flu Threat May Be Overstated, Experts Say

Dr. Marc Siegel, author of False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear and a clinical associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine in New York City,said, "There's a complete psychosis here."

"The whole problem with the topic is the blurring of the distinction between birds and people. I'd be worried if I was a bird -- maybe. But not even all birds should be worried," Siegel said.

FROM INSIDEDISNEY: (q's and a's that shed light on the great entertainment giant)

Q: With 2 deaths in less than year, Epcot's Mission: Space is becoming quite notorious. Is it true that going on this attraction is more dangerous than actually going to outer space?

A: Absolutely not. The space shuttle has a death rate of 2%. Mission: Space's 2 deaths over the last year are statistically insignificant. Taking into account ride capacity and Epcot's average attendance, I put the number of Mission: Space "missions" at around 500,000 a year. You do the math.

Q: Thanks for putting my mind at ease. Now I know that it is much to go on a theme park ride than to be blasted into space.

A: Glad to be of service.