- By Jim Evans
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Smart Talk SMART TALK By Dr. Parley Speake
IF WE DO NOT SUCCEED… I miss Dan Quayle. Having served as Vice President of the United States, he, like most V.P.s, was as soon forgotten as last year’s American Idol runner up, but in these parts, he’s a folk hero.
Here at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, we enjoyed using him as a poster boy. He raised awareness of boneheaded language, properly known as cerebroporosis.
One summer, Mayor Luke Johnson invited Quayle to the Underbelly Festival to honor him for his forthrightness and inspiration. And he actually showed up. He didn’t get many of these invitations.
At the gala picnic in Legua Loco County Park at Moot Point, where the River Rio turns south, Mayor Johnson presented a plaque inscribed with his favorite Quayle quotation: If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Words to live by.
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