[Ads-l] born on third base

[Laurence Horn]

> On Oct 3, 2018, at 8:59 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> It was Jim Hightower, not Ann Richards

Well, I had the state right!

> , 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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