[Ads-l] born on third base

[Ben Zimmer]

It was Jim Hightower, not Ann Richards, who used the "third base" line
about George H.W. Bush. See Barry Popik's page for this and much more
(including the early form given upthread by Peter Reitan, which Barry dates
to 1934).

https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/born_on_third_base_and_thinks_he_hit_a_triple_a_privileged_person

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 8:42 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> So memory fails to serve once again.  I do recall the silver-foot-in-mouth
> remark (too).  Mental blending.
>
> > On Oct 3, 2018, at 8:24 PM, Alice Faber <afaber at PANIX.COM> wrote:
> >
> > I think the Ann Richards quote was "poor George, he was born with a
> silver foot in his mouth". Here's a link to the speech:
> http://gos.sbc.edu/r/richards.html
> >
> > AF
> >
> > On 10/3/18 7:56 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >> I first heard it (in the third rather than second person) in Ann
> Richards’s speech at the DNC referring, if memory serves, to George H. W.
> Bush.  But I can stand corrected.
> >>> On Oct 3, 2018, at 7:43 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Chris Mathews, MSNBC, in ref. to Trumptaxgate:
> >>>
> >>> "We've all heard the term 'born on third base and claiming you hit a
> >>> triple."
> >>>
> >>> I haven't heard it, but GB takes it back to at least 1981.
> >>>
> >>>

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