Killebrew was known as an all-around gentleman during his playing career.
John Carmack, the co-founder of id Software who pretty much helped invent the first-person shooter genre, not to mention an all-around fantastic gentleman (we hung on his every word during last year's QuakeCon), has said that he now believes Direct3D is a superior API to OpenGL.
"Look around, ladies and gentlemen," she continued, "because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed.
It was a rhetorical evocation of Richard M. Nixon's statement from 1962, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last news conference".
"In the trenches, not content with living like kings in our hair and our rags, lice would come out and stroll around like Madrid gentlemen," he tells the reader.
SAM ROBERTS Sour Grapes On Nov. 7, 1962, Richard M. Nixon, master of the long goodbye and later of the "I am not a crook" defense, declared at a news conference after he was defeated for governor of California: You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference and it will be one in which I have welcomed the opportunity to test wits with you.
Look around, ladies and gentlemen, because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed," McDormand said.
In an impromptu concession speech the morning after the election, Nixon blamed the media for favoring his opponent, saying, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference".
His remark reminded me of Richard Nixon castigating the press after losing the governor's race in California in 1962: "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference".
Four years later Brown bested Richard M. Nixon by nearly 300,000 votes, a defeat that led the former Vice President to declare bitterly the next day: "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference".
