Let’s hear 'em!
I read where someone placed “I can see Russia from my house!” at #1.
I thought this was gonna be about how people put “2008” as if it’s not really 2008, or as if they’re quoting someone without crediting them. Perhaps these folks are confused by the '08 abbreviation.
Outside of that, I got nothin. Other than to point us all to the ‘Overheard on the OKP’ thread.
“I am not a monster. I could have killed them all, and no one would have known.” – Josef Fritzl, 73, the Austrian man who fathered seven children with daughter he imprisoned in a cellar for 24 years.
“Being a scientologist, when you drive past an accident it’s not like anyone else when you drive past. You’re really the only one that can help.” – Tom Cruise on Scientology.
“I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric. Phrases such as ‘bring them on’ or ‘dead of alive’ indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace.” – US President George W Bush regrets being so hawkish over Iraq.
“We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsumani. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.” – Former US Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, on global financial meltdown.
“And I’ll take Hank’s place: those girls…I’m just going to throw something out there…I want to be on them.” - Neil
“Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.” – US presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
“They are steeped in sin and, if eaten long enough for in quantity, will almost certainly kill you.” – Actress Emma Thompson on the scourge of potato crisps.
“I read the script and it’s not bad. The message is I’m a dangerous lunatic, and that I’m possessed by monkeys.” – Singer Iggy Pop on a forthcoming Hollywood movie based on his life.
“What is the difference between God and Bono? God doesn’t wander down Grafton Street thinking he’s Bono.” – Irish music promoter and TV personality Louis Walsh.
“I feel like I am 20 again, but with arthritis.” – Sylvester Stallone, 61, returns as Rambo.
“We have enemies for whom no attack is too cruel.” – Presumptive Republican nominee for US President John McCain.
“I’m warning you with peace and love, I have too much to do. So no more fan mail.” – Former Beatle Ringo Starr says he’s signed his last autograph.
Geez, Ringo, ya dick.
“2008”
^very clever, dingleberry.
“Barack, he’s talking down to black people. I want to cut his nuts off.” – Jesse Jackson
“What is the difference between God and Bono? God doesn’t wander down Grafton Street thinking he’s Bono.” – Irish TV personality Louis Walsh.
“I’d give my left nut to play [YEM] five times a day” -EJ Anastasio III