[Ads-l] "Fight Fight Fight" as QOTY Contender

[Shapiro, Fred]

I should clarify that I consider "Fight fight fight" to be a strong contender for my list of the top-10 notable quotations of the year.  I did not mean it was a strong contender to be the number 1 notable quotation of the year, there is no chance of that.

Fred Shapiro


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Subject: "Fight Fight Fight" as QOTY Contender

I'm not sure whether Bill Mullins's suggestion of "Fight fight fight" as a QOTY contender is focused on my annual list or on some non-Fred-Shapiro QOTY concept.  In terms of my list, I regard "Fight fight fight" as a strong contender.  Also prominent in my early thinking are "childless cat ladies" and Walz on "weird"ness.  I also would like to have something from Biden's disastrous debate, although it is not easy to zero in on a pithy excerpt from that.

Again, I welcome any suggestions of political or nonpolitical notable quotations from 2024.

Fred Shapiro

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