RE: Ordering quotes

[SMIL - Steve Miller <SMIL@sbt.com>]

Hi Dave;
Yeah, same deal with me and FoxPro.  Currently, I'm not doing anything
fancy, web-wise, with the quotes I have, so VFP is as good as anything for
cutting and pasting...
I will add alphabetical/birthdate/deathdate/timeline/other indexes
eventually, and multiple quotes per person.
Nice site... Hate to be nitpicky so early in the morning, but re:
Dan Ackroyd 
(b. 1952) American comedian 
I think it's Aykroyd, and he's Canadian... and I always hesitate over those
movie quotes.  He did co-write "Ghostbusters" with Harold Ramis, an actor
deserves credit for delivering the lines - doesn't s/he?  
Classic example: Groucho Marx, in those great old movies, delivered lines by
the likes of S. J. Perelman and George S. Kaufman - in their own right, no
slouches at a turn of phrase.  It's half Groucho's delivery and half the
writer's brilliance that gives us "Either this man is dead, or my watch has
stopped."  
Generally, Groucho gets the credit, and he may well have improvised the
particular line.  But I always feel like we're slighting
Kaufman/Perelman/whomever, when I see a movie quote attributed to an actor,
and over the years, I've found less and less tolerance in me for un- and
mis-attributed quotes.
(Though seriously, how deep can you go in researching these things?)
What do you think?
s
		-----Original Message-----
		From:	*** Dave Hill [mailto:davehill47@earthlink.net]
		Sent:	Friday, September 17, 1999 5:58 AM
		To:	quotation-ring-l@gunnar.cc
		Subject:	Re: Ordering quotes
		Sorry for the delay in getting back to you -- life's been a
wee bit hectic
		...
		<Steve Miller>
		> Well, FoxPro was just the DB I was familiar with when I
first dstarted
		> collecting.  How do you find Access for this?  Any special
features you
		> especially like, or is it just the closest tool to hand?
		Well it was convenient, I knew the basics, and it was free
(at the office),
		which meant there was a lot to recommend it.  And, as a
basic db, it does
		the job fine, and I can easily export from it to my sig file
program.
		I was hoping that its Web interface was a bit more
sophisticated (i.e., that
		I could just export directly to HTML), but the '97 version
has a few
		glitches -- er, features -- that make it less convenient
than I had hoped
		(in particular, it puts each "report page" on a separate
HTML page).
		Evidently Access 2000 gets around this.  I'll have to try it
out sometime
		Real Soon Now in my Copious Free Time.
		> > Aside from Bartlett's ... :-)
		> Heh.  Believe it or not, Bartlett's is one book of quotes
I don't have.
		It's a pretty good one.
		> Do you have a web site, Dave?
		Why, yes, it's on the Quotation Ring ... :-)
		http://home.earthlink.net/~davehill47/wist
		*** Dave
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