Quote: In two words: im-possible (antedating 1928)

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:34 AM -0500 2/10/10, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 2/10/2010 12:01 AM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
>>I can answer you in two words, "Im possible."
>>
>>Charlie Chaplin deliberately pinned this Goldwynism on to Samuel
>>Goldwyn according to the biographer Alva Johnston writing in The Great
>>Goldwyn (1937).
>
>The father of Kim Possible?
>
In any case, a companion piece for one of my favorite (almost
apocryphal?) baseball quotes, uttered by St. Louis Cardinals' pitcher
Joaquin Andujar:

"There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is,
'You never know.'"

  Sports Illustrated, June 22, 1987 [according to the always reliable
internet sources]

LH

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