OT: Parody of speech by Yogi Berra

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 6/21/07, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> May 19, 2007: St. Louis native Yogi Berra addresses the crowd on hand
> for the Saint Louis University graduation.
> (By David Carson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
[snip]

Credit where credit is due: the column was written by Dan O'Neill, not
David Carson..

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/columnists.nsf/danoneill/story/6215341669C84746862572E7000CBCE7?OpenDocument

But predictably enough the parody has already been passed off as if it
was Berra's actual speech, without the "wink wink" tipoff. The
Snopesters are on the case:

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/yogiberra.asp

--Ben Zimmer

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