People actually say stupid things like this. There goes my faith in civilisation...
"No wonder summer is like a series of paintings:
it lacks verbs, though lacks is a verb, and is."
-- William Matthews
What the fuck? I got this in a letter from the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. You'd think they could find a quote that didn't make you want to scream.
"I hope you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you've heard is not what I meant."
- Richard Nixon, famous dead guy
"He was a great tennis player, rather like a chess player, always trying to thread the ball through the eye of a needle."
- some idiot sportscaster
"A review on July 19 about 'Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard' by Kiran Desai, mispelled the novel's hero. It is Sampath, not Sampath. The same review incorrectly identified the character who falls into a vat of broth; it is a spy from an atheist organization, not a monkey or Sampath in the form of a guava."
- correction in the New York Times Book Review
"These ball boys are marvelous. You don't even notice them. There's a left handed one over there. I noticeed him earlier"
- another idiot sportscaster
This is rapidly becoming "What Idiot Sportscasters Say"
"We thought it was a foregone conclusion, and then it wasn't a foregone conclusion, but then it was a foregone conclusion again, and what a foregone conclusion it was"
- Grand Prix commentator (which is to say, an idiot sportscaster)
"Don't go into darkened parking lots unless they are well-lighted."
- Crime Specialist
