Quote Unquote

I'm not sure how I ended up on this groups e-mail list, but I received something from Hawkeye Caucus.

An ongoing section of their posts is titled

QUOTE/UNQUOTE

This group of alumni, students, employees and friends of the University of Iowa do the U of I a grave disservice with this embarrassment and the scientific community is united in that fact.

"How do you unquote a quote?"

Quote?

Politico had a story about the Obama White House charging CEO's, they've invited, for lunch.

W.H. makes CEOs pay for lunch

Tacky!

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Checking on the protocol, Politico asked Letitia Baldrige, who headed Jacqueline Kennedy’s White House staff, for comment.

“I’m sure they have their political reasons for doing that, but I think it’s not what quote, hospitality, unquote is all about.”

How do you unquote a quote?

You Said

Most weekday mornings I tune the TV into the Mike & Mike radio show on ESPN2.

This morning the two Mike's, Greeny & Golic, were going on about how Golic had jinxed the U.S. Women's Hockey team by prematurely tweeting they were winning gold against Canada, they didn't, and how Golic shouldn't do the same to the Men's team.

Greeny went so far as to say an "anecdote" was needed to counteract Golic's jinx.

Which made me think of a bit by Ron "Tator Salad" White -- "If I knew the difference between anecdote and antidote, my friend Bob Schneider would be alive today. He got bit by a copperhead and I'm reading him humorous stories out of Reader's Digest."

Greeny also is known to "unquote" a quote.

You can't unquote a quote and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Mike "Greeny" Greenberg is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

They must be so proud.

Can I Quote You?

Dave Price, on the Tuesday 5p.m. newscast, had a story about the Big Lug Butt's--err Big Lug Nut's review of I DED:The Motion Picture.

Price read the BLN's statement that, "Iowans will not be taken for suckers."

Except Price said it as "quote" "unquote".

I've asked before, "How do you unquote a quote?"

You can't and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Maybe it's a University of Missour-uh, or Mizzou, thing.