“It’s not gourmet food. It can’t be…but the shrimp cocktail – I’ve had worse in restaurants on the ground.”
Space tourist Gregory Olsen reviews the cuisine on his $20 million flight (USA Today, 13 October)
“Too bad the hurricane season doesn’t end when we run out of names.”
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An editorial in the Florida Sun-Sentinel on 14 October, shortly before Wilma, the 21st tropical storm of the season, was announced. Wilma is using the last available name; further storms will be named after letters of the Greek alphabet
“I’ve never understood why adults shouldn’t enjoy the same right to use verboten drugs as they have to suck on a Marlboro or knock back a scotch and water.”
Former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper, on what he calls the “lunacy” of the war on drugs (Los Angeles Times, 16 October)
“There is nothing humorous about steroid abuse.”
Tim Brosnan, Major League baseball’s executive vice-president for business, attacks a satirical advert by the California Milk Processor Board that portrays milk as a “performance enhancing substance” (ABC News online, 14 October)
“We are 13.7 billion light years from the edge of the observable universe, that’s a good estimate, with well-defined error bars, and with the available information I predict that I will always be with you.”
Singer Katie Melua’s redrafted lyric to the song Nine Million Bicycles, in response to science writer Simon Singh’s complaint that the original was inaccurate (The Sunday Telegraph, London, 16 October)