Recent quotes

"I am so enamored of oatmeal that there are days that I not only have it for breakfast, but also for dinner."

-- Kathy O'Malley

*** WGN radio personality Steve Cochran re-told the story recently of something that happened at one of the Chicago Cubs' postseason games at Wrigley last October. He was enjoying the restroom facilities on the club level, as was Michael Jordan. When Steve went to wash his hands (as any radio personality with good hygiene is wont to do), he overheard a fan in the restroom approach Jordan at a urinal.

"Wow, Michael Jordan! Can I have your autograph?"

To which Michael turned his head (but not the rest of his body) and replied with a line he must have rehearsed so many times in so many public restrooms around the world.

He said: "This isn't a pen."

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"The level of illiteracy in our parents are appalling."

-- George W. Bush, to the Conference of Mayors

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David Letterman's "unfair edit" of Arnold Schwarzenegger (he cuts and pastes bits of speech to create a new sentence the victim never uttered): "I'm a movie star with the leadership talent of a mastodon frozen in time."