Most Notable Quotes of 2006

[Doug Harris]

Fred --
On a global scale, it might be appropriate to yet again credit that
most famous of all quote-providers, Anon., on the occasion of Saddam's
death.
The BBC (online) report (available via Google) quoted thusly:
"On the mobile phone video, noise broke out and a voice shouted out
'the tyrant has fallen, damn him!' as the camera swung around wildly
for a few seconds before settling on a close up image of Saddam
Hussein's head - still swinging on the noose, his lifeless face
upturned, eyes open."
--
doug



On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:28:42 -0500, Scot LaFaive
<spiderrmonkey at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

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> Damn, I have to go with Limbaugh. That sounds just way beyond stupid.
> That's
> the first I heard it, but it sure is notable.
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> Scot
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>> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
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>> > I count 10 quotes in that list, but one of them is an additional
>> Bushism
>> > from Global Language Monitor. So, Fred, which of yours did Reuters
>> leave
>> > out?
>>
>> I actually gave the Reuters reporter a list of 14 quotations, which he
>> then reduced to a top 10, putting them into a definite order whereas my
>> list was unordered, but he left out #10.  So I think I am free to now
>> name
>> #10 as an ADS-L exclusive.  But I can't decide right now among the five
>> worthy contenders.  Here they are (I welcome input on which I should
>> choose):
>>
>> Yesterday, the devil came here, right here, right here, and it smells of
>> sulfur still today. The president of the United States, the gentleman to
>> whom I refer as the devil, came here talking as if he owned the world,
>> truly as the owner of the world.
>>          Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, Address to United Nations,
>>          Sept. 20, 2006
>>
>> The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating.
>>          Iraq Study Group Report (2006)
>>
>> I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking
>> plane!
>>          Samuel L. Jackson, playing Nelville Flynn, Snakes on a Plane
>>          (motion picture) (2006)
>>
>> Education, if you make the most of it, and you study hard, and you do
>> your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If
>> you
>> don't, you get stuck in Iraq.
>>          John Kerry, Remarks at Pasadena City College, Pasadena, Cal.,
>> Oct.
>>         30, 2006
>>
>> This is Michael J. Fox. He`s got Parkinson`s disease. And in this
>> commercial, he is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He is moving
>> all around and shaking, and it`s purely an act.
>>          Rush Limbaugh, "Rush Limbaugh Show" radio show, Oct. 23, 2006
>>
>> Fred Shapiro
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