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SAILIN' THRU PALIN: A Cafe Contest of Quotes


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                                                            PATTON OSWALT


Geoffrey Dunn, who is making a fifth career off of the Palin memoirs (?) put it this way:

But perhaps the most embarrassing gaffe so far is her mis-attributed quote to UCLA basketball legend John Wooden. As the epigram to Chapter Three, "Drill, Baby, Drill," Palin assigns the following remarks to the Hall of Fame hoops coach:

Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it--with their lives.

Only the quote wasn't by John Wooden. It was written by a Native American activist named John Wooden Legs in an essay entitled "Back on the War Ponies," which appeared in a left-wing anthology, We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History, edited by Nathaniel May, Clint Willis, and James W. Loewen.

Here's the full quote:

Our land is everything to us. It is the only place in the world where Cheyennes talk the Cheyenne language to each other. It is the only place where Cheyennes remember the same things together. I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it--with their life. My people and the Sioux defeated General Custer at the Little Big Horn.   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/palins-latest-emrogueem-g_b_373453.html

 


This is nothing new of course, as far as the repubs getting their damn facts wrong. I mean Boner cannot even tell the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/boehner-pulls-boner

So I have decided what the hell? Let us all throw caution to the wind. I mean it does save time on editing for chrissakes (blesses himself):

Who could forget those immortal words of Thomas Jefferson who once remarked upon seeing the actual terms for the Louisiana Purchase:

DYNOMITE!!!

Or those famous words from James Madison:

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/john_madden.html)

And who does not recall these great words from James Monroe:

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marilyn_monroe.html)

Woodrow Wilson, once discussing his own illness blurted out this line:

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wilson,_Flip)

And as Barak Obama once put it:

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.
(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/o/osama_bin_laden.html)

 

Williams Jennings Bryant once said:

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability."          (http://thinkexist.com/quotes/bruce_jenner/)

President Clinton put it so succinctly:

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dewitt_clinton.html_

Or as Hubert Humphrey once put it at the Democratic National Convention in 1968:

I'm the new fool in town
and my sound's laid down by the Underground.
I drink up all the Hennessey ya got on ya shelf
so just let me introduce myself

(http://www.lyricsdownload.com/digital-underground-the-humpty-dance-lyrics.html)

And I shall always cherish the words of Speaker Gingrich:

To The unwashed public, Joan Collins is a star. But those who know her, she's a commodity who would sell her own bowel movement.

(http://thinkexist.com/quotation/to-the-unwashed-public-joan-collins-is-a-star-but/368101.html)

White House Press Secretary,Robert Gibbs,  attempting to quell rumors of a new war

in Iran put it this way:

Listen to the ground: there is movement all around. There is something going down and I can feel it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmJZ1kyYoU


Tiger Woods recently commented about his 'accident':

I'm not saying I didn't enjoy myself, but I didn't.
 (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Woody_Allen)

George Harrison will always be remembered for this
famous comment:

Geeeeez, isn't it kind of chilly for March?

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison)

 

Vladimir Lenin put it best when he reported:

 Hey, you got to hide your love away.     (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNMhPQoEbJE)

 

General Patton once said to a group of his men in Berlin:

 A 40 year old man is walking in the middle of the deep dark forest with a ten year old boy when the boy piped up: Boy, this is scary.

 The man responded: You think this is bad. I have to find my way out of this mysterious forest all by myself!!!

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patton_Oswalt)

 Charlie Sheen once put it even more graphically when he said:

 Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

(http://bethsysthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/08/bishop-sheen-quotes.html)

 Mareen Dowd once said:

  • Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.  (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harvey)

Sarah Palin herself, for godsakes,  will always be remembered for this line:

 Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.
(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/peyton_manning.html)

So come on, join in the fun folks. Let us have the best misquotes of all time right here at our CAFÉ!!!

 

What do ya say?

 


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Or how about Rumsfeld to Cheney shortly after the invasion of Iraq:

"True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?"

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel

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Acamus, EXACTLY...That is the ticket. I forgot about Havel. Thanks for the reminder.

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I believe this line is a misquote:

"I drink up all the Hennessey ya got on ya shelf"

Hubert Humphrey was pleased with punch. (He said nothing about Judy.)

Otherewise, Palin's publisher affirms that she is using a private plane during her "bus" tour.

Airbus?

Or does she not know the difference between plane and bus?

Or is a private grassroots bus not classy enough for her?

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No now you have me laughing. I am not getting the numbers, but I am getting some pretty great comments. hahhahaahha

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One of my favs is from Donald Johanson to Richard Leakey when the two crossed paths in the Awash Valley.

You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.

http://www.garnersclassics.com/qugly.htm

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hahahah. Story of my life. No wonder I am existential. ha

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And I soon as I'm done digging one hole, I have to go dig another to put in the dirt from the previous hole....And who was it that said: "Same as it always was. Same as it always was. Same as it always was"? Thomas Jefferson? Darwin?

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or as that late great philosopher Sisyphus once said:

THANK GOD ITS FRIDAY.

HAHAHAH

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good one.

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That reminds of the family of John Hancock. His house was on Beacon Hill, and eventually taken for back taxes. Then the top of the hill was removed -- made flat -- in order to build a new statehouse thereon.

For decades thereafter Hancock's litigated the issue, claiming that they owned the hill. And at night -- this is true -- they'd go to the hill, fill a wheelbarrow with dirt, and haul it away.

One way or the other, they were going to retain possession of that hill.

I don't know if anyone ever found out where they "made whole" the hill by rebuilding it.

I think that's why John Hancock, who was a little less bright than a used match, said:

"I'm the hippest cat in town. Gimme a shovel and I'll show you how to dig."

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And the late, great John Qunicy Adams:

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

(Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

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hahahaha. Great. I loved that show. The best. Great quote Grouch. ha

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Don't forget Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln's famous response; "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

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hhahaahahah. Actually I kind of like that lady. I cant stop laughing now.

No, I had thought why not a Lincoln/Whitehouse ticket in 2008 before the impossible happened.

But this is really REALLY goooooooood. hhahahah

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"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn."

I have no original quote to add, but will say that this one made me laugh out loud. *snort!*

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It was real Matyra. I actually saw him say it 50 or so years ago. No kidding.

Bishop Sheen was a showman. And he was goooooooooooooood. ha

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... And when Led Zeppellin was breaking up, one of the members of the group, John Paul Jones, was heard to shout, "I have not yet begun to fight!"

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There ya go. Now this is on point. hahaha

What about the drummer for the Who and the poor bastard who supposedly headed the Stones but had problems swimming and all? huh?

Ya got an answer for them. hahahaha

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Strato now you have me laughing too much. hahahaha

But its not fair. I mean it actually came from the real Darth Vader and all. hahahaha

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I've always thought of Cheney as the Emperor. I can imaging him shooting lightning bolts from his hands and calling W "My young apprentice" with dripping sarcasm....

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Yeah I got it. But he had that armless torturing ability. Just kind of thought it, and the person felt pain. hahaha

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I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. Groucho Marx

“I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities.I failed history.” Sting


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hahahah. So Woody stole a line from Groucho. What's new? hahahahah

Robber baron scumbags. I knew there were gooooood reasons to like Sting. Saw him this morning just jamming it into Scarborough. Fun!!!!

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"Yippee ki-yay, motherf***er!"
Die-Hard Arizona Sen. John McCain.

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HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAH.

Shite. hahhahaha

I cannot even respond to this appropriately. hahahaha.

THIS IS THE BEST SO FAR. HAHAHAHAH

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Sarah P: " I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." [Dan Quayle]

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Yes, yes yes. hahahahaha. I had forgotten this one tooooooo. He was sooooooooooo goddamn stupid. But when you look at it, the Quail was so much more knowledgeable than the Palin.

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Scary thought....but true.

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You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.
- George Bush

http://www.beersgalore.com/quotes.php

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I guess I should add who really said it:
Colonel Adolphus Busch

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Bush with a c. ha. That is what I was looking for. Oh and you already know how much I love those quote sites.

I mean people have already done all the work. hahaha

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Or as the deep thinking Yogi, GW Bush said: "Texas has a lot of electrical votes."

(Yogi Berra)

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I love Yogi. He and his old boss Casey Stengel. And who better to represent their tradition than w? ha it is just that neither of them lied us into wars, stole from the middle class to pay the rich and refuse to take responsibility for ANYTHING.

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"I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed." George Carlin

"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. "
Woody Allen

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. " Dan Quayle

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keenly developed moral bankruptcy. ha

yadayadayadayada dadaddaddadadada

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