Last Plea for Most Notable Quotations of 2013

[sclements at NEO.RR.COM]

After we've had "Don't taze me, bro," nothing will ever seem good enough.
Sam Clements

---- Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Alice Faber wrote:
> >
> > On 11/23/13 8:21 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> >> At 11/23/2013 07:11 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> >>> And surely we include any number of Rob Ford quotes from the past
> >>> couple of weeks? "I've got more than enough to eat at home'" is
> >>> probably the most notorious.
> >>
> >> That needs some expansion -- at for those of us who haven't been
> >> following Rob every day.
> >>
> > The quotable Rob Ford:
> >
> > <http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/20/crack-smoking-toronto-mayor-rob-ford-in-his-own-words-4194487/>
> >
> > And "I've got more than enough to eat at home" was on TV, live (and
> > without asterisks!):
> >
> > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4siKr6qY8w>
> >
> > The above links to the CBC coverage. There was also a clip making the
> > rounds, that I can't find now, showing a CTV anchor struggling to
> > maintain her composure as this impromptu news conference was airing live.
>
> If that's a bit too outré for Fred's list, there's always, "Yes, I
> have smoked crack cocaine. But no, do I, am I an addict? No. Have I
> tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors."
>
> --bgz
>
> --
> Ben Zimmer
> http://benzimmer.com/
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