Subject: Misspokements (Page 48)

Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

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

I don’t mean he missed him, but he just didn’t get him when he put the tag on him.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Wal-mart… do they like make walls there?

(1981 – ) heiress, socialite, media personality & model

And Britain defeats the rest of the world to pick up the bronze medal.

Imported from a little town in Italy… Fresno.

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

All I had to do is keep turning left!

auto racer

She went into the hospital after being bitten by a spider in a bathing suit.

(1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist

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)

They’ve picked their heads up off the ground and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders.

English former football player & manager

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

(1921 – ) former First Lady of the United States & actress

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

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

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

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

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

English former football player & manager

Always be on the lookout for conspicuousness.

I’m the football coach around here and don’t you remember it.

football coach

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

That’s what Columbus said to the Indians just before he gypped ’em out of Manhattan.

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

I am blind like the mighty oak.

(1971 – ) American actress

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop – and there wasn’t a duty-free shop.

British football player