Subject: Misspokements (Page 52)

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

They may have regained all 40 yards… in fact, they may have.

Include me out.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Jimmy Hill: Don’t sit on the fence Terry, what chance do you think Germany has got of getting through?

Venables: I think it’s fifty-fifty.

English football player & manager

Imported from a little town in Italy… Fresno.

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

Colin had a hard on in practice earlier, and I bet he wished he had a hard on now.

motor racing commentator

Stephen Hendry jumps on Steve Davis’s misses every chance he gets.

professional snooker player & commentator

New York Champagne – that’s a phony label; they don’t grow raisins in New York.

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

All of ‘em, any of ‘em that have been in front of me over all these years.

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

(1922 – 1990) American actress

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

One of those Canadian proverbs.

professional baseball player

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

Homo Sapiens… is he an Arab?

(1923 – 2013) American actress

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.

British sports commentator

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

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

Pedroza – the crown on his head hanging by a thread.

British sports commentator

There was three minutes to go about two minutes ago.

English football player & manager

I don’t think I’m alone when I say I’d like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.

And tonight norther areas can expect incest and rain – I’m sorry, incessant rain.