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National Amateur Press Association
Continued from Page 1 We note, too, that Bell Atlantic telephone crews at work with women sometimes controlling traffic at their job sites, now are protected by "Flaggers Ahead," no longer flagmen. Get a good look at the presidential candidates now. After Nov. 7, you won’t see anything of the loser and after the inauguration, you can expect the winner to go behind closed doors and appear in a press conference only if the Washington Monument leans either right or left. Don’t get into any heated discussions with your best friends over the candidates and the issues in this election campaign. After this is over, the winners and losers will become fast friends, lunch together two days after Nov. 7 and travel places together with their wives and children. Meanwhile, you’ll risk—in the blink of your eye—turning that best friend into an enemy for life and never be invited again to those backyard barbecues you enjoyed together for years. Ross Perot’s campaign stickers have lasted much longer than his presidential campaigns. They’re still stuck on roadside signs along highways in our part of the country. They could go back to 1992 or certainly 1996. The late John Henry Falk, beloved Texas comedian and commentator on many subjects, about sized up elections when he noted in 1980 he’d "listened to Ronnie and then switched to Jimmy and then listened to Jimmy and switched to Ronnie. Jimmy was the last one I heard." And never thought of thinking for myself at all! I thought so little, they rewarded me By making me the ruler of the Queen’s navee!
W. S. Gilbert
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