Monday, August 01, 2011

Will and Guy

** Gaffes **

* Famous People's Funny Gaffes

1) So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? Christina Aguilera

2) Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1999, to young deaf people in Cardiff, referring to a school's steel band.

3) If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it: Prince Philip at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting.

4) My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will never, never, surrender to what is right: Dan Quayle [former Vice President USA]

5) Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal: General Eisenhower Allied Commander Europe in 2nd World War

6) If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive: Samuel Goldwyn

* Sporting Gaffes*

1) I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel. Stuart Pearce [former England soccer player]

2) Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot: Ray Wilkins [former England soccer player] speaking on BBC1 TV.

3) For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip: John Motson - BBC TV football commentator.

4) Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer: David Acfield [former cricketer and TV commentator].

3 comments:

Reader Wil said...

Great and funny quotes. Dan Quale can and will never never... become not the President of America ever.

Gigi Ann said...

Oh, that Will and Guy are so funny.

Arkansas Patti said...

Those are so funny. The sad thing about being famous is that your misstatements last forever. No one can remember mine.