“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
Variant: The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
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George Carlin 270
American stand-up comedian 1937–2008Related quotes
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Bad Girl, written by Smokey Robinson and Berry Gordy, Jr. (1959)
Song lyrics, With The Miracles
Variant: Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.
“When I go home to Santa Cruz, I'm the same girl as when I grew up.”
[2009-10-02, Genevieve, Bookwalter, Monte headliners hope show starts something big; Up-and-coming acts excited for Santa Cruz, while supermodel returns home to emcee, http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_13468237, http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.santacruzsentinel.com%2Fci_13468237+&date=2010-04-13, 2010-04-13, Santa Cruz Sentinel, MediaNews Group, the woman who famously posed in Sports Illustrated wearing nothing but an iPod said she is a little anxious about bringing her work home., 2010-04-13]
Love in a Village (1762), Act i, scene 2.
Pages 72-73
The Revolution Will Be Digitised: Dispatches From the Information War, 1st Edition
Context: When a politician claims for example that 'crime is down' since he implemented a certain policy, it is the professional investigative journalist who knows the raw data on which this statement is based (criminal incident reports) and who asks for verification. He or she can then go to other sources to question the veracity of the data. The reason I specialise in the intricate details of bureaucracy isn't because I have a passion for paper-pushers, but rather because I need to know all the types of information collected, by whom and where they are stored so I can get my hands on them. A statement isn't a fact. Even when the person making the statement is an authority he or she still needs to provide evidence or proof that what they say is the truth and a professional journalist should be asking for this proof and supplying it for public scrutiny. All this accumulating of statements, data and information which then has to be verified takes time. But this is the only thing a journalist does that marks him out as a professional. It's the only reason anyone would choose a well-known newspaper's website over an unknown blog. The newspaper as a brand has built up, over time, a reputation for challenging the powerful and giving people meaningful, true information. The press is not like any other business and what it sells shouldn't just be rehashed press releases or celebrity gossip, but the civic information necessary for people to understand their society and participate in it. It is a check on political and financial power, or at least it should be.
