Last Plea for Most Notable Quotations of 2013

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sun Nov 24 02:02:01 UTC 2013


At 11/23/2013 08:42 PM, Alice Faber wrote:
>On 11/23/13 8:21 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>At 11/23/2013 07:11 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>>>And surely we include any number of Rob Ford quotes from the past
>>>couple of weeks? "I've got more than enough to eat at home'" is
>>>probably the most notorious.
>>
>>That needs some expansion -- at for those of us who haven't been
>>following Rob every day.
>The quotable Rob Ford:
>
><http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/20/crack-smoking-toronto-mayor-rob-ford-in-his-own-words-4194487/>

Oh, the obvious.  Especially relished because of  his obesity, I
imagine.  (He seems to outdo Gov. Christie.)

But I think it will need to be more fully stated (sated?) when chosen
-- and include the p-word.

Joel


>And "I've got more than enough to eat at home" was on TV, live (and
>without asterisks!):
>
><http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4siKr6qY8w>
>
>The above links to the CBC coverage. There was also a clip making the
>rounds, that I can't find now, showing a CTV anchor struggling to
>maintain her composure as this impromptu news conference was airing live.
>
>Alice
>
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