Those crazy curmudgeons

[owlmoose]

"The worst thing about this investigation is that it does change your life in terms of employment potential" -- Ted Stevens, Alaskan Senator, who stands accused of taking bribes from oil companies.

More gems here and here, including the now infamous "series of tubes" speech and the following choice cut:

"I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me."

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[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

Have you not heard IOKIYAR? (It's OK if you're a Republican?) Why are you picking on poor old Ted? Don't you know he's the longest serving man in the Senate? Why do you hate Amurica?

[oswulf.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the exact spelling--or even the approximate spelling--but I'm thinking it would have been 8 letters...

And it seems to me that substitute teachers sometimes use libraries.