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1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said
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by:
Price, Steven D. (Editor)
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Publisher:
The Lyons Press
Published: August 1, 2004
ISBN: 1592282679
Format:Hardcover
Pages:272
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Book Description
From the Back Cover
History does not reveal the identity of the very first person to have said something dumb. It might have been a caveman who approached a saber-toothed tiger with "nice kitty." Or who confidently confided to a neighbor that the
newfangled "wheel" gizmo would never replace good old-fashioned walking.
We'll never know, but we can say with some assurance that based on recorded history, dumb remarks have been with us since the invention of writing. Young or old, rich or
poor, famous or unknown, people of all generations and cultures have seized the opportunity to say something dumb - stupidity has always been an equal opportunity employer.
In celebration of such mental lapses and pure idiocy, here is a collection of
stupid utterances, unintentional and otherwise, from the worlds of politics, radio, television, newspapers, show business, sports, and literature - and everywhere else people can - and have - put their feet in their mouths.
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Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
-Brooke Shields, actress, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal government anti-smoking campaign
"Outside of the killings,
Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." -Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C.
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on."
-Samuel Goldwyn, movie producer
"It's
no exaggeration to say that the undecided could go one way or another."
-President George W. Bush
"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if
there is a change in your circumstances."
-Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina
"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like
Norman Einstein."
-Joe Theisman, former NFL football quarterback
and sports analyst
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
-former Vice-President Dan Quayle at a fund-raising event for the
United Negro College Fund (attempting to quote the
Fund's slogan,
"A mind is a terrible thing to waste")
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