Most Notable Quotations of 2008

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:32 PM -0500 12/4/08, Wilson Gray wrote:
>What about the caption oof a New Yorker carton: "Black is the new black."
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>-Wilson

I mentioned that caption here (11/20) and got jumped on because the
dictum was old hat, having been discussed a couple of years ago.  I
think the new cartoon is a particularly apt cite for it, given the
election context, but that will have to be our minority report, as it
were.

LH

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>All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
>come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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>-Mark Twain
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>On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Benjamin Zimmer
><bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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>>  On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>>  I can see Russia from my house.
>>>  Tina Fey, satirizing Sarah Palin
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>>  (That's my personal favorite. So dead-on a satirization that the line
>>  is now commonly attributed to Palin herself.)
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>>>  [Sarah Palin] is not any smarter than I am and that's not nearly
>>>smart enough.
>>>  Tina Fey on Letterman show
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>>  Not to overload the list with Feyisms, but what about "Bitch is
>>the new black"?
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>>>  I drink your milkshake.
>>>  There Will Be Blood
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>>  Technically from 2007, though the film's 12/26/07 release date
>>  justifies a 2008 popularization.
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>>  --Ben
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