Subject: Misspokements (Page 31)

Koozeeny

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

My handicap is that I don’t have a big enough beer cooler for the back of my golf cart.

professional football player

Sportscaster: The extra point is no good!

Robert Scott: Then it isn’t an extra point, is it?

Eric Show will be oh-for-ten if that pop fly comes down.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

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

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

It’s basically the same, just darker.

stock car racer

You have tasted a whole worm!

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

Our offense is like the Pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

American basketball player

The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

Nah, I’m just a prizefighter.

(1919 – 1990) American boxing champion

The crowd noise has gone up several octaves since the beginning of the game!

Beverly LaSalle: I'm a transvestite.

Edith Bunker: Could've fooled me; you ain't even got no accent.

(1923 – 2013) American actress

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

People in Preston ward are invited to a meeting at 7.15 pm tonight in St. Mary's Church Hall… to meet councillors and beat police officers.

Mayor of New York

Today Chicago, tomorrow's Saturday.

(1971 – ) American actress

Here’s Hodge on the breakaway! He’s all by himself. He shoots. And Hodge missed the goal! He’ll be thinking about that one for a while! Just look at the expression on Hodge’s stick!

It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be abstinent alone; the Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery…. you can’t masturbate without lust!

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

And there’s the man in the green flag!

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

(1922 – 1990) American actress

What’s everyone blaming me for? … Blame Felix; I wouldn’t have hit into the double-plays if he hadn’t hit singles.

American baseball player, manager & executive

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator