Wednesday, December 19, 2007

"Don't Tase Me, Bro" - top 2007 quote

Fred R. Shapiro, the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, has compiled his most memorable quotes of 2007. Here are the top 5:

The top quote for 2007 is ........... "Don't Tase Me, Bro"

"Don't Tase Me, Bro," a phrase that swept the nation after University of Florida college student Andrew Meyer used it seeking to stop campus police from throwing him out of a speech delivered by Senator John Kerry. Andrew Meyer on September 17, screamed "Don't Tase Me, Bro," as he was bodily tossed out of the Kerry event.

Second on the list was this memorable answer by Caitlin Upton (see - Parents: "teach your children well .... ) the South Carolina contestant in the Miss Teen America contest in August when she blurted:

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us."

Upton had been asked why one-fifth of Americans are unable to locate the United States on a map.

3. "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country." Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's October comment at Columbia University in New York.

4. "That's some nappy-headed hos there," via Shock jock Don Imus comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. Imus lost his job at CBS radio in April, but returned to the airwaves in December with Citadel Broadcasting.

5. "I don't recall." -- Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' repeated response to questioning at a congressional hearing about the firing of U.S. attorneys.

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