When you're feeling stupid read this:

[JerryBaumchen 1,468]

On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.
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 .


"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."

--Mariah Carey


"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've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,"

--Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.


"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,"

--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC .


"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it,"

--A congressional candidate in Texas.


"Half this game is ninety percent mental."

--Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark


"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

--Al Gore, Vice President

And ...

"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur."

--Al Gore, VP


"I love California . I practically grew up in Phoenix ."

--Dan Quayle


"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"

--Lee Iacocca


"The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

--Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.


"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people."

--Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor .


"Traditionally, most of Australia 's imports come from overseas."

--Keppel Enderbery


"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


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http://www.snopes.com/quotes/candidate.asp

Since a number of these are provably false, I think we can safely assume most of them are.

What I find especially amusing is that some of the quotes originally attributed to members of one political party are now being attributed to another.

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"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."

--Mariah Carey

No one has time for every one of these, but if we each take one, then we may get them all knocked out. I'll do this one, and please, for the love of celebrity, help do your part:

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/carey.asp

Someone did a fictitious satire on Carey, and it was reported as the truth by some lazy columnists that didn't do their research.

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

[Andy9o8 2]

I'm pretty sure that "Half this game is 90% mental" should be attributed to Yogi Berra.

[JohnMitchell 16]

That's who I heard said it.

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"The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

--Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.

Actually he was talking about a childhood friend who was extrememly smart, who's name was Norman Einstein. People who hear the quote assume that he trying to refer to Albert Einstein, but he wasn't.

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