Subject: Misspokements (Page 6)

Hi ho Silverwear… Away!

(1971 – ) American actress

I don’t room with him [Babe Ruth]; I room with his suitcase.

professional baseball player

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

English football player & manager

Largess, smalless, any kind of ess.

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

As I said before and I said yesterday, this is one of the key questions that will be decided or not decided at Edinburgh.

British politician & novelist

Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

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

It is kisstomary to cuss the bride.

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

That letter’s too old! What I mean to say – it’s subspired.

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

I’ve been dunked on by (Vitaly) Potapenko and now (Zan) Tabak; the good part is that they don’t make posters of those guys.

professional basketball player

Most of my clichés aren’t original.

football coach

In two words, impossible.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

I couldn't settle in Italy – it was like living in a foreign country.

Welsh football player

Wal-mart… do they like make walls there?

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

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

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

You’re gonna be stuffed in one of them intestinary cases.

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

I paid too much for it, but it’s worth it.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

These ball boys are marvellous; you don’t even notice them; there’s a left-handed one over there that I noticed earlier.

Tennis commentator

The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Larry Lintz steals second standing up… he slid, but he didn’t have to.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

In the words of the old song, it’s a long time from May to December but, you know, it’s an equally long time from December to May.

professional football player, coach & executive