People in public office say some very odd things. Remember Nicholas Winterton telling the press, ‘People in second class carriages are different from us’?
Caroline Wyatt on BBC News 24 demonstrated just how observant a defence correspondent must be when she said ‘I have been in the desert for days and I can assure you it’s very sandy’.
Sports presenters seem particularly prone as this gaffe from David Coleman proves: ‘That’s the fastest time ever run – but it’s not as fast as the world record’.
During an election campaign President George Bush exclaimed to a meeting in South Carolina: ‘Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning’?
We all heard Gordon Brown’s supposedly off-air remark describing a Labour supporter as ‘a bigot’.
Sometimes actors surprise us with their insight – Tom Conti said: ‘(Tony Blair) is like an actor who doesn’t really believe in his script himself but has the incredible skill to make everyone else believe it’.
Personally, I thought nothing could top Alan Sugar’s descriptive: ‘I’ve got a gut feeling…in my stomach’ until Hovis returned to Macclesfield to film their latest ad campaign.
Their arrival coincided with the town’s 750th Charter Anniversary celebrations and Hovis’s own 125th birthday.
Coun Bill Livesey was irritated when Hovis refused to get involved in the celebrations.
‘We’re just disappointed, 750 (years) only comes around once in a while’.
You can always rely on Macclesfield folk to top anything.
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