Subject: Misspokements (Page 5)

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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

I’m willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

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

professional football player

The faster he goes, the quicker he’ll get to the pits; the slower he goes, the longer it will take.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I’ve gone where the hand of man has never set foot.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

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

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

(1931 – ) television newscaster

It’s waddya call… wash your hands.

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

You don’t have enough smarts to straighten this out. This is unstraightable.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin’ sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.

(1964 – ) U.S. governor (Alaska) commentator & author

He's ranked number three in Britain, number four in the world. You can't get any higher!

English darts player

He (Satchel Paige) threw the ball as far from the bat and as close to the plate as possible.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Once the Earth goes, the planet is going to be next!

(1971 – ) American actress

They stayed away in droves.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

That picture was taken out of context.

professional baseball player

We all know what it’s like to have a half-warmed fish within us.

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

He's standing there making a sitting target of himself.

English boxing manager & trainer

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

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

(1971 – ) American actress

The scene is dull; tell him to put more life into his dying.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

(1879 – 1974) film producer