Dumb and Stupid Quotes Thread: Idiotic Source and Context are Key.

[Borachio]

On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
The Quangle Wangle sat,
But his face you could not see,
On account of his Beaver Hat.

E. Lear

 

[Tahuti]

Who's a nazi here? To be honest, I am a nazi But I don't believe fascism, and didn't like genocides

I really laughed my *** off at this one!

 

[Cutlass]

"One day I do want to run for prime minister."
—

Toronto mayor Rob Ford

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Doesn't he want to start a reality tv show? I think it would be a blast! Like Ozzy Osbourne, just as an actual mayor and younger and wilder. And more obnoxious.
The ratings would be wondrous.

 

[Kyriakos]

You can trust him.

New World mayors are toons No class at all.

 

[Cutlass]

"Every conspiracy theory that you have heard that makes you think Lee Harvey Oswald was not the assassin was started by Democrats. Every one."
—

Rush Limbaugh

 

[ReindeerThistle]

"More and more of our imports come from overseas."

-George W. Bush

"The French don't even have a word for 'entrepreneur'."

-George W. Bush

Sent via mobile.

 

[Borachio]

It's an interesting Bushism, that one about the entrepreneur. Since the French actually don't have a word for entrepreneur in the sense that entrepreneur means in English. (Actually, they may have. But I don't know what it is, and entrepreneur isn't it (edit: it probably is entrepreneur). Though it was originally, in 1850, just to confuse me!)

Entrepreneur, in French, generally simply means a contractor of any sort. Literally, someone who undertakes.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

It's an interesting Bushism, that one about the entrepreneur. Since the French actually don't have a word for entrepreneur in the sense that entrepreneur means in English. (Actually, they may have. But I don't know what it is, and entrepreneur isn't it.)

Entrepreneur, in French, simply means a contractor of any sort. Literally, someone who undertakes.

OMG! You're right. The secret genius of "W" ("Dubya").


How about:

"Don't misunderestimate me."
- George W. Bush

Sent via mobile.

 

[Borachio]

I've long suspected Bush was/is an incredibly intelligent person who has successfully managed to persuade everyone that he's a fool.

Didn't he claim to have come in the top 95% of his MBA class?

 

[Kyriakos]

^W Bush could be a better Ali G

 

[Formaldehyde]

So what criminal act are you referring to?

I thought you were referring to the Nixon adminstration, not the Clinton one.

 

[Cutlass]

"What I keep coming back to in all of this is, unlike other issues -- Katrina or the Iraq War -- this is something that touches so many people's lives across the country, and you don't know whether the president is going to be able to successfully dodge it."
—

Fox News' Martha McCallum on Obamacare

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Is it just second-language-me are do all those Fox pundits at least act like they do not know how to articulate themselves? How they say things seems just as flat and unnecessary convoluted in its flatness then what they are saying.
Do you have to train to talk like a Fox pundit?

 

[Kyriakos]

Yeah well:

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.


Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/john_prescott_2.html#wfzEYHCjppgeSIW2.99

Spoiler :

 

[JollyRoger]

JUSTICE SCALIA: . . . What was the vote on this 2006 extension [of the Voting Rights Act] — 98 to
nothing in the Senate, and what was it in the House? Was —

MR. ADEGBILE: It was — it was 33 to 390, I believe.

JUSTICE SCALIA: 33 to 390. You know, the — the Israeli Supreme
Court, the Sanhedrin, used to have a rule that if the death penalty was
pronounced unanimously, it was invalid, because there must be something
wrong there.

The same Justice Scalia that has no problem upholding death penalty sentences handed out by unanimous juries and who was confirmed to the Supreme Court by a vote of:

Spoiler :

98-0

 

[Cutlass]

"I am thankful this week when I remember that America is big enough and great enough to survive Grown-Up Trayvon in the White House!"
—

Dinesh D'Souza tweet

 

[Grisu]

Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland.

"The internet is Neuland (unchartered territory?) for all of us"

 

[Borachio]

Why is that a dumb or stupid quote? Seems to make perfect sense.

And "uncharted territory" is good, I think. "Unchartered" would mean (if it could) without a charter.

Uncharted territory is one that hasn't been mapped yet. (A map being referred to as a chart; by maritime types.)

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Ahh, Reddit.

"In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence."
-Aalewis