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• Mr. Ford spoke to the convention but not Mr. Nixon.
  In his honor, couldn't the GOP at least have arranged for 18-and-a-half minutes of silence?...
• How about that footage on the news yesterday of our new Commander-in- Chief on the deck of the aircraft carrier (Teddy Roosevelt?
  ).. After throwing one of his snappy salutes (he's *almost* got that down), I half expected him to give the order, "Let's turn this thang around....
• Jeane Kirkpatrick, who spoke to the GOP meeting, is a Democrat.
  Mr. Reagan used to be one, too. And, though there was no evidence of it at the convention, Mr....
• Mr. Reagan got lots of applause at the convention for the economic recovery.
  His economists, meanwhile, will continue trying to figure out what he did right....
• Four more years," GOP delegates shouted while Gerald Ford was speaking to the convention, but he had the good sense to stop talking after just a few weeks.
• A woman from the south was attending a social gathering up north and tried striking up a conversation .
  .. "Where're you all from?" she asked to a group of ladies....
• Who said the GOP convention had no surprises? When Roger Staubach introduced Nancy Reagan he didn't ask her how she spells relief.
• While looking for a Real Job (read: technical writing), I've been paying the bills doing medical transcription work.
  I came across a book today called "The Empty Laugh Book" by the American Association for Medical Transcription, containing some of the funniest dictated and transcribed quotes from the world of medicine that I've ever encountered....
• Dead Men Read No Mail My father died on Jan 02, 1995.
  He left no forwarding address. Therefore, it fell to me to collect his mail....