Subject: Misspokements (Page 10)

Coffee isn’t my cup of tea.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I’m telling you that Porsche was literally right up my arse in the fast lane of the motorway.

He’s talking another war, an old war, ya know, 1812, the one between the states.

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

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense

Can I sew you to another sheet?

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

Let’s bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Now there’s three things you can do in a baseball game; you can win or you can lose or it can rain.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

To all you hunters who kill animals for food, shame on you; you ought to go to the store and buy the meat that was made there, where no animals were harmed.

I definitely want Brooklyn [his daughter] to be Christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

professional football player

The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

She is going to join the gym to lose some weights.

I’m going down so often these days you’d think I was making a blue movie.

English boxer

He's got a cut on his left eye… it's just below his eyebrow.

British sports commentator

I don't think he's a thousand percent mentally.

Irish football player, author & broadcaster

Oh dear, I forgot to put my watch back to Swiss time.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

Ifso fatso

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

He has me sitting on pins and cushions waiting.

(1905 – 1974) radio comedian

Tell them to stand closer apart.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

It is a full house at the Eden Gardens. Today, Calcutta is celebrating the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi!

cricket commentator

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president