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Ridiculous Funny Press Statements
"The President continues to surprise people, so I am not surprised
to be surprised."
- US Secy of Defense Dick Cheney
- from Mark Wiersbeck (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
"Mobile launchers are more difficult to detect because they move
around, unlike fixed launchers."
- Katie Coucik, NBC News
- from Lowell McCulley (Nashua, NH, USA)
"Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in
a moment."
- Tom Brokaw, NBC News
- from Jeff E. Nelson (Nashua, NH, USA)
"We have good reason to believe he was stabbed. There was a sharp
object sticking out of his chest".
- Lt. R. Travis, Newburgh, NY, Police Dept,
cited in National Lampoon calendar
- from Jim Reisert (Hudson, MA, USA)
"The City of Rochester (Michigan) is considering a ban on smoking
at the park because people are leaving their butts on the beach."
- Announcer, WJR Radio, Detroit, MI
- from Jim Cotton (Novi, MI, USA)
"This door must not be opened under any circumstances."
- Sign outside a fire exit in a hotel
- from C. N. Kumar (Karnataka, India)
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: "I would
not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were
supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live
forever, which is why I would not live forever,"
-- Miss Alabama in the 1994
-- Miss USA contest.
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of
your life."
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become
-- Spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign.
"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
-- Dan Quayle
"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of
people."
-- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.
"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
"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as
they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night.
And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record."
-- Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman
"The President continues to surprise people, so I am not surprised
to be surprised."
- US Secy of Defense Dick Cheney
- from Mark Wiersbeck (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
"Mobile launchers are more difficult to detect because they move
around, unlike fixed launchers."
- Katie Coucik, NBC News
- from Lowell McCulley (Nashua, NH, USA)
"Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in
a moment."
- Tom Brokaw, NBC News
- from Jeff E. Nelson (Nashua, NH, USA)
"We have good reason to believe he was stabbed. There was a sharp
object sticking out of his chest".
- Lt. R. Travis, Newburgh, NY, Police Dept,
cited in National Lampoon calendar
- from Jim Reisert (Hudson, MA, USA)
"The City of Rochester (Michigan) is considering a ban on smoking
at the park because people are leaving their butts on the beach."
- Announcer, WJR Radio, Detroit, MI
- from Jim Cotton (Novi, MI, USA)
"This door must not be opened under any circumstances."
- Sign outside a fire exit in a hotel
- from C. N. Kumar (Karnataka, India)
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: "I would
not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were
supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live
forever, which is why I would not live forever,"
-- Miss Alabama in the 1994
-- Miss USA contest.
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of
your life."
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become
-- Spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign.
"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
-- Dan Quayle
"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of
people."
-- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor.
"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
"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as
they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night.
And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record."
-- Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman