* “Then there was the great comic...

* “Then there was the great comic Joe Frisco’s great line: ‘I don’t have to worry about the crash. I went broke in the boom.’ ”

--Submitted by Milt Larson, chairman of the Society for the Preservation of Variety Arts

* “How bad was it? E.F. Hutton didn’t talk. He yelled.” (Cutler Daily Scoop)

* “To give you an idea of how bad this stock market thing is, today Microsoft applied for a small business loan.” (Jay Leno)

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