Subject: Misspokements (Page 16)

I am blind like the mighty oak.

(1971 – ) American actress

They speak all the languages of the rainbow here.

Scottish auto racer

It shows ‘us vs. them,’ and I’m on the ‘us’ side.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

I made a wrong mistake.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest; if you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

There's three of us in the band, so we split everything straight down the middle.

(1947 – 2008) English drummer

You could be like Anita O’Brien, hustlin’ fruits.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

 It’s obvious these Russian swimmers are determined to do well on American soil.

British swimmer & sports commentator

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

That’s the kind of luck poor Mr. Lincoln had the night he went to the movies, and he sat in John Wilkes’ booth.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

He can be as good as he wants to be, that's how good he can be.

English football player & announcer

A woman should cleave into her husband… right here in this house is where Edith’s cleavage belongs.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Getting cut in the face is a pain in the butt.

Canadian hockey player

He (Julio Cesar Chavez) speaks English, Spanish, and he’s bilingual, too.

(1931 – ) American boxing promoter

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

The United States has so much to offer the third world war.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

Just imagine what he’ll be like when senility kicks in… if it hasn’t already.

English former football player & manager

I’m telling you that Porsche was literally right up my arse in the fast lane of the motorway.

Honor thy parents. That’s one of the Lord’s Top 10 Commandments. That’s right around covetin’ your neighbor’s cattles and wives and there.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Third base is certainly a reactionary position.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer