“It starts off like a Hungarian omelette: First, steal one egg.”
David Niven’s character Col. W.H. Grice in the 1980 movie The Sea Wolves.
“Display of farce”
Expression in a Tim Dolighan cartoon May 12, 2000 [re the UN].
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone driving faster is a maniac?”
“Morning Smile” from Andrew Chan of Mississauga in Globe & Mail August 28, 1999 – but the line originated with comedian George Carlin
“I thought I had been working my butt off these last 25 years, but a rear-view glance in the mirror proves otherwise.”
Jane Christmas in National Post March 8, 2001
“As even a Murchison supporter conceded, it had ‘a total want of literary attractiveness.’”
Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything [re a book by geological writer Roderick Murchison that actually sold well despite its unreadabilty and high cost}.
“The were-Scot appears to be a normal human being, but under the influence of a full wallet sprouts red hair, a kilt and a thick brogue and roams the land in quest of haggis.”
I hope it's funny because it's one of mine, from July 14, 2002.
“Presumably an Appalachian pin-up would be a moonshine girl.”
One of mine from January 5, 2000 – I don’t know if certain newspapers still have “Sunshine girls” but they did then.
“Look, I love [his] work. But have you seen the man trying to communicate without a script? He’s about as articulate as a bag of potato chips. Warren Beatty couldn’t win a debate with a mime.”
Richard Roper in the Chicago Sun-Times regarding a potential Beatty presidential run quoted in Globe & Mail September 7, 1999