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May 25, 2006

It Cuts Out The Column And It Puts It In the Basket

by AltHippo @ 3:51 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

From today’s White House Briefing:

“Q. Did you often see him with the actual newspaper column — actual physical columns from the newspaper?

“A. Yes, he often will cut out from a newspaper an article using a little pen knife that he has and put it on the edge of his desk or put it in his desk and then pull it out and look at it, think about it. That will often happen. . . .

“Q. How long does the Vice-President keep the columns that he cuts out with a pen knife and puts on the corner of his desk?

“A. Sometimes a long time.”

That’s going to be a scene from my upcoming movie: Silence of the “Big Time” Lambs.

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5 Responses to “It Cuts Out The Column And It Puts It In the Basket”

  1. Bukko in Australia Says:
    May 25th, 2006 at 7:08 pm

    I want to hear more about the suppressed story of the secretary who suffered severe finger injuries when she was holding on too long to a paper that The Shooter was trying to eviscerate!

  2. AltHippo Says:
    May 25th, 2006 at 10:20 pm

    “The Shooter.” I love it. The best we’ve come up with locally is “Big Time” from a now obscure interview with Bush and Cheney when they didn’t know the microphone was on. Bush called a reporter an asshole, and Cheney echoed “Big Time.”

  3. Surfx.ro Blog Verification Says:
    May 26th, 2006 at 5:17 am

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  4. eRobin Says:
    May 26th, 2006 at 9:50 am

    When I first taught elementary school, I had to go to one of those in service seminar type things. They passed out an eval form and said that we had to fill it out COMPLETELY!!! Do you understand? COMPLETELY!!! So I did - including the space for what about the presentation “needs improvement.”

    Many months later - but before the school year ended, I spoke to my principal about something. My evaluation conference or something like that. And she tells me that June Carroll, the head muckety muck in charge of district hiring or something, had seen her at a conference. She pulled my eval sheet from that stupid seminar out of her briefcase, showed it to my principal and asked her if I were “a problem.”

    So I’m familiar with obsessive loons who hold onto scraps of paper for indeterminate lengths of time waiting to use them to start trouble.

  5. AltHippo Says:
    May 26th, 2006 at 8:22 pm

    Actually, eRobin, I had a similar experience in college.

    The course was Communications Arts 301, for upper classmen to prep them for doing seminars in the real world. After a somewhat quirky first lecture, the Professor asked us to write an honest and anonymous assesment of her presentation.

    Naievely, I wrote an assesment, something to the effect of “I wonder if you’ve been exposed to too much religious dogma.”

    What I learned afterward, was that she took those forms, and spent the rest of the semester tracing them back to their authors.

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