# Quotes That Make You Go "Huh?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240 "2005-12-19T02:29:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/1 "2005-12-19T02:29:33Z")
My idea here is to have a repository for comments that you’ve seen people make that just, well, aren’t quite the product of dealing with a full deck. The one that finally made me start this thread is this: > [@](#): > > The reason that budhists and other people don’t believe in this doctrine is because they only believe the parts of the Bible that they want to. (Be careful not to name your source if it’s another message board, as mine is, or a blog, to avoid an interboard war or something similar breaking out.) ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/2 "2005-12-19T05:33:02Z")
I didn’t hear this but read it on a bathroom wall. It has since become my mantra: “I feel more like I do now, than I did when I got here.” ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/3 "2005-12-19T05:34:23Z")
Credited to President Eisenhower: “Things are more like they are now than they’ve ever been before.” And they say that man wasn’t an intellectual! ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/4 "2005-12-19T11:24:57Z")
From my coworker, Daniel, telling us about how someone was bullshitted: “He swallowed it fish, hook, and anchor.” ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/5 "2005-12-19T11:28:28Z")
“I’ve got an excellent taste. I only like really tasteful things.” ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/6 "2005-12-19T13:09:28Z")
“It’s really windy today, it must be at least Force Eight on the Reuter scale!” Why yes, I did point out that it’s not the Reuter scale, it’s the Richter scale - and that’s _earthquakes…_ ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/7 "2005-12-19T14:28:12Z")
Online Hold 'Em game. An airhead made yet another, utterly asinine play. Everyone let him have it good naturedly (in the CHAT window), telling him what a dumbass poker player he is, and he countered: “I really know this game. I just don’t know what beats what.” ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/8 "2005-12-19T15:13:31Z")
“The Americans are not an inventive people; they do not eat enough pie.” –Thomas Edison ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/9 "2005-12-19T17:26:53Z")
“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 a federal antismoking campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/10 "2005-12-19T17:28:54Z")
At a work holiday party about 8 years ago: “…so I walked int he room and there she was, all bare-butt-ass…” I think he meant naked, I’m still deciphering. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/11 "2005-12-19T17:32:53Z")
Are gaffes by celebs and wannabe’s ok, even if we didn’t see or hear them? ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/12 "2005-12-19T17:33:59Z")
> [@BarnOwl](#): > > Are gaffes by celebs and wannabe’s ok, even if we didn’t see or hear them? Like… 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. [wanna bet on her hair color]? ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/13 "2005-12-19T17:46:49Z")
“The word “genius” isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein,” Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst. Or Leonardo Da Simpson ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/14 "2005-12-19T18:22:03Z")
Be fair to Theismann - he had a high school classmate named Norman Einstein who got straight A’s and all the rest of the package. Now a doctor, Norm Einstein was reportedly quite gratified at his brief moment of fame. All the best example I have are from George Bush. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/15 "2005-12-19T18:31:19Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Be fair to Theismann - he had a high school classmate named Norman Einstein who got straight A’s and all the rest of the package. Now a doctor, Norm Einstein was reportedly quite gratified at his brief moment of fame. > > All the best example I have are from George Bush. I have no animosity towards Joe T. As a matter of fact, I usually enjoy his Sunday night NFL color casting. How about a Dan Quayle quote - ``` "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." ``` ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/16 "2005-12-19T20:30:57Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > All the best example I have are from George Bush. And this thread was _made_ for this quote: “Tribal sovereignty means just that; it’s sovereign. You’re a – you’ve been given sovereignty, and you’re viewed as a sovereign entity.” ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-that-make-you-go-huh/336240/17 "2005-12-19T20:37:00Z")
> [@BarnOwl](#): > > “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 a federal > antismoking campaign. Another Brooke Shields quote: “I didn’t know Chicago was on an ocean!”