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• Reporters like Bill Greider from the Washington Post and Him Naughton of the New York Time
  for instance, had to file long, detailed, and relatively complex stories every day -- while my own deadline fell every two weeks -- but neither of them ever seemed in a hurry about getting their work done, and from time to time they would try to console me about the terrible pressure I always seemed to be laboring under....
• Homer: Ooh la la! Lisa: Hi, Dad. Homer: You look great, sweetheart.
  Lisa: [abashed] Thanks. Homer: Little Lisa, Lisa Simpson....
• Homer: So anyway, Lenny and Carl are never around on Wednesdays and they don't tell me where they go.
  It's like a conspiracy. Bart: A conspiracy, eh? You think they might be involved in the Kennedy assassination in some way?...
• The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George Wither.
  Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well"....
• Bart: [Daniel Stern's voice, a la Wonder Years] Me?
  Get a job? Were they serious? I didn't realize it at the time, but a little piece of my childhood had slipped away, forever....
• Things are not going well with me. There is a brain-drain in my home town that has been going on for some time now and is rather thorough.
  I wanted to stay around, but was asked to leave by the rest of the permanent residents who felt I was too dumb!...
• Banish me to Babbledegook! No, No! I DID my time!
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together.
  They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life....