Most Notable Quotations of 2010 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Dan Goncharoff]

To be fairer, the phrase "separation of church and state" isn't in the
First Amendment, so maybe she did read it and noticed that fact.
DanG

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 10:01 AM -0500 11/22/10, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>>I would add to the list of quotations:
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>>Where in the Constitution is separation of church and state?
>>Christine O'Donnell
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> To be fair, it's not in the Constitution proper but in the First
> Amendment.  Perhaps Ms. O'Donnell  hadn't gotten that far, or skipped
> the boring First to get to the good stuff in the Second.
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>>On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
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>>  > "If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested" seems to be gaining
>>  > currency -- it probably will be this year's "Don't tase me, bro!"
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> The more popular, and more concise, phrasing appears to be simply
> "Don't touch my junk", with "About 1,380,000 results", as in:
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> 'The battle-cry of the outraged has turned from "Don't tread on me"
> to "Don't touch my junk".'
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> But maybe there's no single outragee who's associated with that
> version, while the conditional phrasing was attributed to some
> particular immortal passenger whose name I've forgotten.
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> LH
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