B-List

Yesterday was Plain English Day.

"Rumsfeld wins 'Foot in Mouth' award"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1001495.htm>
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld won the award for this gem:
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me,
 because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
 We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some
 things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't
 know we don't know."

The following effort by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was also a contender:
"I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a
 woman"


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