Most Notable Quotations of 2010 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Victor Steinbok]

Well, to be completely fair, she was /coached/ for the answer and was
"literally high-fiving" her handlers after the debate. They actually
thought they "got" Coons on that one.

     VS-)

On 11/22/2010 11:09 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> 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:
>> At 10:01 AM -0500 11/22/10, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>>> I would add to the list of quotations:
>>>
>>> Where in the Constitution is separation of church and state?
>>> Christine O'Donnell
>>>
>> 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.
>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
>>> <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil>  wrote:
>>>   >  "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!"
>> The more popular, and more concise, phrasing appears to be simply
>> "Don't touch my junk", with "About 1,380,000 results", as in:
>>
>> 'The battle-cry of the outraged has turned from "Don't tread on me"
>> to "Don't touch my junk".'
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> LH

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