> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 11:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Quaylisms
>
> I tried but I can resist no longer! My favorite "Quaylisms":
>
> I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only
> regret I have was
> that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could
> converse with those
> people." - J. Danforth Quayle
According to the Urban Legends pages at:
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/quayle.htm
this was a joke made up by a congresswomen who admitted, immediately after
telling it, that it was fabricated. That didn't stop a number of media
outlets from reporting it as the truth. The rest are accurate but, as a
professional public speaker myself (I speak in front of two classes a day),
I know that I wouldn't want the full transcript of my remarks made public. I
am grateful that the perceptual systems of my students filter most of the
garbage and focus on the overall meaning.
Rick
Dr. Richard L. Froman
Psychology Department
John Brown University
Siloam Springs, AR 72761
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.jbu.edu/sbs/psych/froman.htm
