Posted on 12/30/2003 5:32:30 AM PST by Bobby Chang
One of my favorite things to do each year is to collect all I've written and see what stands out in each of them to see what happened in the year.
As usual, there have always been great quotes from the year gone by, and I thought about sharing some of the funniest quotes I've made and even other quotes from friends which I thought were enjoyable.
I decided one of the best things to do is to share with you some of those great quotes I've made in 2003. Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry, and others will puzzle you. But they were all great quotes in 2003.
Without further commentary, here are some of the best personal Quotes of the Year of 2003.
Enjoy!
Bobby :-) Deuteronomy 31:6-8
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First up . . .
The Story of the Year On the Capture of Saddam:
It is a day to celebrate in the world. One of the world's biggest purveyors of terrorism has been caught. I knew we had him and this leadership proved to the world they aren't backing down -- the Earnhardtian mentality of President Bush showed here today why we have him as our brave leader.
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On Operation Iraqi Freedom. I thought the battles reminded me eerily of the students in the battle in Les Misérables. I could hear the song "One Day More" in my head as we prepared for battle, and later victory.
I remember again when (the news/talk radio stations) promoted (the national tour "Les Misérables" in Charleston) on (WTMA). Those songs have come back tonight as we prepare (for battle against Iraq).
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One of my papers in college was about "Outcome-Based Education". Now this came up after I read of silly lawmaking in one state:
Outcome-based education gave us the blight of "invented spelling," which states misspelled words are right. Now we have seen the newest form of inventedness, Outcome-Based Lawmaking.
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"These alterations are blatantly illegal because of American copyright laws and furthermore, permission was not granted from Careers-BMG according to the album's notes."
In an E-Mail to the Philippine media group INQ7.NET, I exposed a Philippine recording artist violating copyright infringement on a 2001 album she recorded because she failed to put the copyright mention or even spell the composer's name correctly. (I've met the composer of the song in question -- nice lady.) It may be an innocent song but when you consider the song in question was the same song I sang at my first-ever solo in April 1997, and I have knowledge of the song from top to bottom, and you see infringement, you protect your friend.
(P. S. The artist was forced to recall after I exposed the scandal.)
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Why there are too many homicide bombers in the Middle East:
"20-year old (homicide) bomb(er)s are very dangerous when full of nails."
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"Seems I am rather sitting pretty in a colouratura culture than a backwards one!"
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"Do I have to call you (Luciano) Pavarotti?"
-- My new voice teacher (August) Leah, to me, after I matched pitch well in a session.
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The MTV Video Music Awards controversy -- I had this quip on the presenters:
As for presenters, surely nobody will be "Trading Spaces" (Selah and Laurie Smith), going boogity boogity boogity down "A Different Road" at 200 MPH (Kathy Troccoli and Darrell Waltrip), throwing interceptions to the opposing team's coach (Kurt Warner and Jeff Fisher), or guiding a blind girl to survive an island (Dirk Been and Ginny Owens).
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Favourite Songs Which Could Become Church Solos for a tenor
> > > My Life Is In Your Hands (Troccoli, Montvilo) > > > Non Nobis Domine > > > Carry On (Farrell, Smith) (English or Spanish) > > > Go Light Your World (Rice) > > > A Different Road (Troccoli, DiGesare, Sudano) > > > Love Has Come (Maher) > > > Jesus, What a Saviour (Wexelberg)
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Church ran a worship dance class at the start of the year.
"If this (dance) opportunity turns out well I may have to learn to tumble all over again as part of our church's programmes!"
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Kids, this isn't MTV, X-Games, or 54321. There's a Big Red Truck in the parking lot.
-- on the school dress codes
------------------- Person: > If opera is entertainment, then falling off a roof is transportation<
Me: Don't tell me or my friends.
Opera can be entertainment and touching. In April, I attended "The Consul", and was left scared and crying in (the) scene (in Act III involving Magda Sorel). There was a personal reason behind it. (Serena played Magda, and knowing what I did, it tore me to tears.)
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On the adult male television channel "Spike TV":
Spike TV, when I originally heard the name, had me thinking it would be a channel based on volleyball (spikes, of course -- bump, set, SPIKE, complete with discussion on rally or side out scoring, beach and indoor, NCAA and FIVB), which would please a few friends at St. George (my church)* who are volleyball players.
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What makes a Clemson fan leave his seat at a symphonic concert? When he learns the orchestra is about to play "Also Sprach Zahurstra"?
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From Meredith Nutter, a friend in Charlotte, on my birthday. I didn't celebrate this year because of Strom's death.
"28 is not old at all! At least you're not 30 yet! . . . I know that God has placed her on your heart and mine for a special reason."
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Statement on the death of Strom Thurmond.
I am so thankful to be a Palmetto State resident for 24 1/2 years, and so thankful for nearly 24 years, he was my Senator.
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Some men are joining a women's trip to a September 28 Chonda Pierce-Sandi Patty concert. Chonda spent part of her teen life in Orangeburg SC and was a white member of the band at Belleville Middle School (now Robert E. Howard Middle School).
"What seemingly is a girls' night out has become for the St. George Posse has tossed the Girls Night Out plan for the event into a Revenge of the Men. At least three male members of the choir have tossed their fedora into the bus for the event."
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I attended Don Pasquale on Friday instead of Sunday. Here's why.
Me: "Meredith, I would have loved to be there Sunday but . . . " Meredith: "I know you have church." Me: "I have the final Purpose-Driven Life study to attend!" Meredith: "Great book! I'm so glad you're studing it."
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Smart Cat?
Me: "Evening Miss Active!" Cat: "Good evening!" Me: "What say you?" Cat: "You've been listening to a good amount of Bill O'Reilly, sir. I'm excited friend -- Guess whose birthday is Tuesday?"
I stall.
Cat: "Kathy Troccoli! She is forty-five!" Me: "45? Wow, it's been a year since that fun encounter! Thanks, Miss Active!"
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Situation: As a Fellowship of Praise Liaision Committee, I was talking with dissident members of Eutawville First Baptist Church who were transferring their memberships to our church under "watchcare" until the full establishment of the Fellowship of Praise at Santee Lakes.
Me: "Your membership transfer is going to be much better than my announcement!"
Ron Heddle, Orangeburg-Calhoun Baptist Association: "He came from a church which no longer exists!"
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The Sammy Sosa Incident:
In "corking" a bat, the inside of the bat is made lighter by removing the material inside the bat. Many modern softball bats come "corked" from the factory with no weight inside the bat, and there are models which carry a plastic cap surrounding the barrel. There is no weight in the barrel of the bat. During the Auburn-Clemson NCAA Tournament game recently, a player's aluminum bat shattered. Opening of the bat will show there is only a bare shell, with no weight in the bat.
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Situation: Clemson falls to Ohio State in the NCAA Baseball Tournament (Just for reference, Carolina finishes sixth in the overall, making it to Omaha, 1-2, a year after finishing second overall and having Omaha Tiger Steak for dinner.)
"Brutus eats Tigers for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner."
Ohio State wins the Auburn Regional in the NCAA Baseball Tournament. The funny headline means the non-Tiger in the four-team regional (Clemson, Princeton, Auburn, Ohio State) "eats the three Tigers".
Friday - Auburn defeats Princeton, Ohio State defeats Clemson Saturday - Clemson defeats Princeton, Ohio State defeats Auburn, Auburn defeats Clemson Sunday - Ohio State defeats Auburn.
A clean yummy meal. Brutus the Buckeye ate ALL the Tigers as his meal.
Tastes good!
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The US Government releases the Deck of Death:
With the War on Terror continuing in Iraq, there is a new joke about playing 5-card stud with the Deck of Death.
A new Top Hand has been formed and it can only be played with the Deck of Death.
Three of the four Aces are Saddam, Uday, and Qusay Hussein. If you get the three Husseins, you win automatically, and the three Husseins override all other hands.
Rank:
1. Three Husseins (Saddam, Qusay, Uday) 2. 5 of a Kind 3. Royal Flush 4. Straight Flush (Exception: A-K-Q-J-10 royal flush) 5. Four of a Kind. 6. Full House. 7. Straight. 8. Flush 9. Three of a Kind (Exception: Three Husseins) 10. Two Pairs 11. One Pair 12. High Card.
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On an Internet Web site, I posted a message about winners at an awards show, and said who won the major awards. The Sysop changed it to an odd heading and locked it because I had exposed who won two major awards, and claimed it wasn't appropriate to name winners because of a tape delay to air eleven days later. The problem is when a press release is made, that makes it official. Since the organisation sent the news release, so we know who won officially! Yet some whiners want to wait. Sorry, it's been named, the release has been sent, so it's official! Don't censor when a release has been sent!
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A college student wrote a letter bashing radio and television host Bill O'Reilly after he discussed the incident of Chris (Ludacris) Bridges performing in downtown Columbia. He wants a boycott of Mr. O'Reilly:
"If you wish to launch a boycott of Bill O'Reilly, you are degrading the Gamecocks, and being disloyal to your own team, as Gamecock Sports and The Radio Factor both air on WISW, as do other distinguished radio shows (Good Morning Columbia, Sean Hannity, and Michael Savage).
Furthermore, you are insulting the fine men and women of Fox News, featuring our very own distinguished College of Journal and Mass Communications alumna Rita Cosby, who hosts The Big Story Weekend.
As for the Mr. O'Reilly situation, as heard August 27, 2002, on WISW, Mr. O'Reilly explained to Bart Casabona of Pepsico Public Relations, after Mr. Casabona stated the high "Q-Scores" among young people and popularity of Mr. Bridges handed him a chance on Pepsi commercials during the MTV VMA, Mr. O'Reilly noted, "What I'm arguing is that (Pepsico is) legitimizing a man (Mr. Bridges) who is demeaning just about everybody, and is peddling antisocial behavior. You have no conscious qualms about that?"
I do. His use of obscenity-laced lyrics (in "Get the Foxtrot Back", he uses the f-bomb 26 times in a 5:21 song, equivalent to $130,000 in fines*) replaces the "talent" he may have. Carry Mr. Bridges to the Koger Center for the Arts and engage in a singing contest against a certain Serena Hill. Nolo contendere est, he would be toast and be called to the Big Red Truck. Serena would win hands down.
By defending Mr. Bridges and attacking Mr. O'Reilly, you are promoting thuggery, obscenities, and attacking the men and women who work at Fox News Channel and WISW.
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After seeing her the past few years in uneventful shots, it seems she has started to sing the Twila Paris song "(I Am) Not Afraid Anymore" when she is about to have her shots!
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A bit of Cheri Oteri parody making.
"Who is that who made me an operaphile?
"It's you, it's you!"
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In an age of accountability, I see no problems in using replay in NFL games to hold officials accountable.
We are living in an era where accountability has become a standard, and in the wake of Enron, Worldcom, and Global Crossing, that accountability is more important than ever. By allowing a coach or official to challenge a call (officials only in the final two minutes), it puts responsibility of the official. There is such a thing called accountability, and replay allows officials to be accountable.
And oh -- the NFL does take into consideration in scoring officials for playoffs how many reversed calls are made. Leagues have long allowed television replays to be used in scoring officials and keeping them accountable. Now these replays allow for full accountability to be in effect. If you blow a call, the other officials see it, it's challenged, you've blown the call.
Officials are accountable, and replay permits the accountability factor to come to play.
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Talent
I sometimes feel like dreaming and with the lack of talent I might be too late (nearly 28) in finding all the talent I didn't see I could find when I was 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17. Why did I wait until I was 21 to find my talent?
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"This is aimed at the Dixie Chicks and their anti-American tactics."
-- At the recital. I wore a yellow ribbon with an American flag pinned into the middle of the ribbon on my lapel of the "Women of Faith" suit. That was a thank-you to honor the great troops who have fought for this brave country. Since then I learned four members of my home town have died in the war.
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The Countdown Is At Zero . . .
Let's Go!
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When I learned my recital date was May 1 . . .
That Mystique of May keeps striking again with the recital. I can't wait. Something is always sticking with May First. After all these celebrity encounters on that day (best of which is Mary Lou Retton in 1990, reading her Gateways to Happiness has strengthened me this year), its seems only appropriate my brother's birthday (the third-year Norman J. Arnold School of Medicine Student turns 24) is when, as lyricist Chris Rice states, I'm "on the other side of the radio". Except of course I'm on the other side of the grandstand. There's something about being on the other side which has its advantages, no matter where you are. (I love his lyrics, and I of course am a big fan of a song he gave a cheesy title when he originally recorded it in 1993 as an independent artist, and the title was abandoned when it became a big hit in 1995 with a white fedora, and a friend.)
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The Notable Quotable - Last But Not Least
"Please remind me not to raise the glass."
-- Me, to Serena. I learned the number I am expected to sing for the recital should Serena be able to clear it with her boss the song "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton." A custom I've learned when I hear the tune is to raise the glass in the air on the fourth stanza. If I raise the glass when I sing I'm in trouble.
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