Subject: Misspokements (Page 25)

Ifso fatso

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

It’s difficult to remember when you haven’t played it before.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

Gentlemen, for your information, I have a question to ask you.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

These people haven’t seen the last of my face. If I go down, I’m going down standing up.

American basketball player

I want you all to synchronize your tongues to silence.

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

Why do you always insist on playing while I’m trying to conduct?

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

Such Bulgarians should be vanished.

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

This is only a little mispensation.

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

Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.

professional baseball player

She changes prices. I caught her in a near misdemeanus.

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

(He) simply lost that sun-blown popup.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

[Osama Bin Laden is] either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense

We haven't had the rub of the dice.

English football player & manager

Cricket shouldn't be used as a political football.

English cricketer

It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment; it’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

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

I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.

Australian football player

Special kind of stanima.

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

The only reason we’re 7-0 is because we’ve won all seven of our games.

Fred Titmus has two short legs, one of them square.

She’s not [runner] Ben Johnson… but then, who is.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Brilliant sunshine rained down on the city.