>From: "Peter McWilliams" >Subject: damn! >Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 22:04:29 -0800 >X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 >X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > >Damn! > >I keep falling for these urban legends! > >Here's the skinny. > >Enjoy, > >Peter > > > >FYI - This is a popular current urban legend (although pretty darn >funny)...Check out the website: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/lewinsky.htm > >Michael >(below is the text version of the above page) > >Quote: "I've learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me." >Speaker: Monica Lewinsky >Status: False. >Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2000] > >Here's the first quotable quote of the century: >Monica Lewinsky (on CNN's Larry King Live discussing her miraculous Jenny >Craig weight-loss): > >"I've learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me." > >Origins: Sometimes you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't. >That's turning out to be the fate of Presidential mistress, Monica Lewinsky. At a >time when other young women her age are making career choices and moving on >with their lives, hers is the unenviable position of having her past rule her >present. > >Lewinsky has recently become a spokesperson for Jenny Craig, a well-known >weight loss program. This venture has again put her in the public eye. > >Though some may mean-spiritedly see her as unfairly trading on publicity, in >reality, publicity has unfairly traded upon her. She can no more escape her >notoriety than a dog can outrun its tail. > >Nor, evidently, can she outrun the endless jokes made at her expense. > >The fake comment quoted above is one of these. On 3 January 2000, Lewinsky >was interviewed on the Larry King Live show. At no time during the >proceedings did she say anything even remotely resembling the remark now >credited to her. Indeed, the key word the double meaning swings upon >("mouth") doesn't appear in the transcript. Anywhere. > >In truth, Lewinsky said nothing scandalous or ill-judged during that foray. >Truth, however, has little place in the world of humor, a land populated not >with bon mots someone actually said, but with what that person could have >said. As was the case here. > >The potential humor opportunity offered by the mental juxtaposition of a >dieter having to strictly control her intake and of a young woman whose life >has been forever altered by a handful of injudicious oral sex escapades >proved too powerful for pranksters to resist. Though she didn't utter the >line, one can all too easily picture Lewinsky ruefully admitting "I've >learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me." And it's this >mental image which speeds the story from inbox to inbox. > >Returning from the world of what could have been to the world of what >actually was, during the Larry King interview, Lewinsky discussed her new >Jenny Craig affiliation. As to why she chose this career path: > >"I'm in a position right now where I'm trying to support myself and pay my >legal bills, and so I'm looking for kind of the best way to do that. It would >be too chaotic for me to go to a traditional job. I'm not being supported by >my parents, and I chose something among a lot of different things that I felt >was honorable and that I thought would be helpful to me [...] >Not doing something in public doesn't make people not recognize me. And it >doesn't give me my life back. And I do need to -- I do have financial >responsibilities." > >Lewinsky is right -- attempting to hide from publicity won't make her >notoriety go away. Nor would it give her her life back. Though her critics >might not yet appreciate this point, brazening it out might well prove to be >this young woman's best shot at returning to a life of normalcy. > >Barbara "how to handle a scandal" Mikkelson > >Last updated: 26 January 2000 > >The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/quotes/lewinsky.htm >Please use this URL in all links or references to this page > > >================================================================ > >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: