Subject: Misspokements (Page 19)

Do you think that suppository is gonna be safe from me there, Edith?

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

Always be on the lookout for conspicuousness.

That's no remedy for success.

English football player

God may choose to heal someone from cancer, yet that person still has a great deal of medical bills; the outstanding bills do not determine whether or not the patient has been healed by God.

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)

Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I’ve lost my signifying glass [and later] Oh, well, it doesn’t magnify.

(1844 – 1930) English dean at Oxford whose name is given to the accidental transposition of sounds of two or more words

That's the fastest time ever run – but it's not as fast as the world record.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Sparky is the only guy I know who’s written more books than he has read.

baseball broadcaster

You never ask why you’ve been fired because if you do, they’re liable to tell you.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

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

Pedroza – the crown on his head hanging by a thread.

British sports commentator

It’s almost like we have ESPN.

professional basketball player

I’ve seen the future and it’s much like the present… only longer.

(1953 – 1998) baseball player

Oh my God, oh my God! I’ve always wanted to drive to Europe!

(1971 – ) American actress

I would have brung you flowers too, but I read in a magazine that they suck up all the carbon monoxygen.

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

No, I think that was when Abraham Lincoln signed the Declaration of Independence. Ya know, “Fourscore and seven years ago.”

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

And later on, it’s the Syracuse Orangemen against the Indiana Hoosiers from Hawaii.

He's the kind of player who usually comes along rarely and sometimes never.

(1927 – ) American football coach

It would be unprintable on television.

English cricketer

He’s talking another war, an old war, ya know, 1812, the one between the states.

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

Play some Picasso.

professional basketball player