Treasury of ignorance, malapropism, misunderstanding and mis

[angelwing]

A treasury of ignorance, malapropism, misunderstanding and mistake
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

We've been working on the basics because, basically, we've been having trouble with the basics.
Bob Ojeda, baseball pitcher

And now, will y'all stand and be recognized?
Gib Lewis, Texas Speaker of the House, to a group of people in wheelchairs on
Disability Day

It is beyond my apprehension.
Danny Ozark, baseball team manager, regarding his team's losing streak

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

These people haven't seen the last of my face. If I go down, I'm going down standing up.
Chuck Person, NBA Basketball player

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only:
Super Bowl.
Bill Peterson, football coach

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
Dan Rather, television news anchor

Be sure and put some of those neutrons on it.
Mike Smith, Baseball pitcher, ordering a salad at a restaurant

It's got lots of installation.
Mike Smith, Baseball pitcher, describing his new coat

There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years. article in
Soviet Weekly

Was it you or your brother who was killed in the war?
Reverand William Spooner, of Oxford, England (for whom the 'Spoonerism' is named)

I've read about foreign policy and studied -- I know the number of continents.
George Wallace, 1968 presidential campaign

No one wants to say the sky is falling, but in this instance I am afraid the emperor has no clothes. Despite Herculean efforts by the Council and Council staff, we are still only dealing with the tip of the iceberg.
Charles Millard, NYC councilman, in a press release

Passive activity income does not include the following: Income for an activity that is not a passive activity.
IRS form 8583, Passive Activity Loss Limitation

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
Samuel Goldwyn

Why only twelve?
Samuel Goldwyn, while filming The Last Supper, (attributed)

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
Samuel Goldwyn

I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves this session.
Gib Lewis, Texas Speaker of the House

He was probably our greatest living painter -- until he died.
LBC British Television News

Cheered by their words with an altogether more positive attitude to boxing...I found myself recalling the words of Marlin Brando in On the Waterfront, "I could have been a bartender."
Look Japan magazine article

To move cabin, push button of the wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press the number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by natural order. Button retaining pressed position shows received command
Elevator Instructions, Madrid, Spain

[alicia-w]

and not one Bushism???

http://www.slate.com/id/76886/