Best Quotes of 2006

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

What sticks in your mind for this year, something someone said?

For me, for whatever reason, it is the chubby-cheeked guy on the Direct Buy infomercials who, proud as a peacock, says:

"And we saved $60,000 on kitchen cabinets!"

I always think to myself, so did we you dumb ----.

Then I think, $60,000, you better be able to park 12 boats in em!

[Icarus Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Icarus]

Maria Bartiromo: "I'm curious, have you ever googled anybody? Do you use Google?"

President Bush: "Occasionally. One of the things I've used on the Google is to pull up maps. It's very interesting to see -- I've forgot the name of the program -- but you get the satellite, and you can -- like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes."

--interview with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, Oct. 24, 2006

Watch the video, it's even funnier hearing it:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/23/...es-the-google/

He calls it "the google" the same way people in the Southland refer to their freeways: The 5. The 101. The 405. (not just 5 or I5 ...)

-David