Subject: Misspokements (Page 8)

Don't pay any attention to the critics; don't even ignore them.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

I am B-U-Z-Y, busy!

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

These people haven’t seen the last of my face. If I go down, I’m going down standing up.

American basketball player

In the Moscow Olympics Lasse Viren came in fifth and ran a champion’s race.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Even Robinson Crusoe had company on Friday.

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

Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

The way he’s swinging the bat, he won’t get a hit until the 20th century.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Can she sing?… she's practically a Florence Nightingale.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

No, I think that was when Abraham Lincoln signed the Declaration of Independence. Ya know, “Fourscore and seven years ago.”

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

You have turned into a pyronymphiac.

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

I am not a man of faith, but my wife is.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

There is someone warming up in the Giants’ bullpen, but he’s obscured by his number.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I don’t care if it doesn’t make a nickel; I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor; it’s the other way around… they never vote for us.

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

[on phone] No, the doctor isn’t in just now. Oh, he won’t be back for a long, long time. He went out on one of those eternity cases.

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)

Special kind of stanima.

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

I’ve now been in 57 states… I think one left to go.

(1961 – ) 44th U.S. president

In ancient Rome they killed Sid Caesar.

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

The crowd noise has gone up several octaves since the beginning of the game!