| Larry Powell: Does anybody remember the roaches? 01/02/2001 By Larry Powell / The Dallas Morning News While we can still hear the echo of Y2K stomping madly into the past, let's look at the final roundup of Y2quotes. Our picks from December's editions of The Dallas Morning News:
DEC. 2 – "We're great white litigators." (Aside: Member of a presidential nominee's legal team? Nope. The Dallas lawyer who put an 18-foot fiberglass shark atop his office on Central Expressway.)
DEC. 5 – Incoming school Superintendent Mike Moses told the Dallas Citizens Council, "Chaos in the boardroom only leads to chaos in the classroom." (Aside: Put this on a plaque and nail it to the boardroom door.)
DEC. 7 – About to graduate from the University of North Texas at 17, Laura Cullen said, "I rarely have to study for tests. Just listening and occasionally taking notes in class is enough." (Aside: Haven't we all said that?)
DEC. 9 – Plano exterminator Michael Bohdan, trying to set a record for being covered by roaches, said, "Nobody out there was thinking about the election mess in Florida or anything else." (Aside: Well, maybe someone thought, "That guy's been served too many chads.")
DEC. 12 –-After signing shortstop Alex Rodriguez to a $252 million, 10-year contract, Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks said, "What we've had a chance to do here is leapfrog into an arena where we've never been before." (Aside: Not only that, you can get your new shortstop to finance the new arena.)
DEC. 14 – As parts of the city sparkled, a holiday decorator said, "In Dallas, it seems to be who can outdo who, whose car is better, whose house is shinier, whose Christmas is bigger." (Aside: Dallas, the city that sparkles with envy.)
DEC. 16 – When a study revealed unpleasant, sometimes fatal practices in Dallas' animal control department, City Council member Donna Blumer said, "I've been hearing this type of thing from people, but we were told everything was OK. It's really sad that the city can't be more progressive in this area." (Aside: Sometimes "people" know what they're talking about. And amen on that second part.)
DEC. 17 – "It looks like the Rangers are going to put an exciting team on the field next year," said a man buying season tickets. (Aside: If "exciting" won pennants, speedy ex-Texas outfielder Scarborough Green, now a Chicago Cubs minor-leaguer, would need extra fingers for all his World Series rings.)
DEC. 19 – Discussing the Dallas Cowboys' propensity for penalties and his own attitude, tackle Erik Williams said, "I think I could have played back with [Chicago Bear linebacker] Dick Butkus and guys like that. Those guys would bite your face off, bite your nose off, bite your fingers off." (Aside: Appetite for violence?)
DEC. 21 – "This will be the largest and most complex single project in the history of this state."(Aside: Getting Texas to the World Series? Nah. A Texas Transportation Commission member describing the LBJ-Central Expressway interchange known as the Dallas High Five.)
DEC. 28 – "We've got two days' worth of passengers and one day worth of airplanes," an American Airlines spokesman said, explaining the effect of a winter storm on the area. (Aside: It was a little too late to sing that carol that begins "'Tis the season to be jolly....")
DEC. 31 – "Help! Help!" Oh, I made that quote up, but it could have been the Y2K+1 New Year baby after getting a look at what happened in Y2K. Some things never were Y2K compatible.
Larry Powell can be reached at 214-977-8487; P.O. Box 655237, Dallas, TX 75265; fax 214-977-8319; or at .
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