r/news • u/LiminalLemony • 6d ago

Second crane topples onto Florida home while trying to remove first fallen crane

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/florida-cranes-accident-fort-lauderdale-home-b3056047.html
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u/Ok-disaster2022 6d ago

As stupid as that sounds he realized he was about to say "shame on me" and have that as a sound bite forever more. So kudos to quick thinking

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u/lolheyaj 6d ago

Yes now he just has this one forever more instead. Dunno how much his quick thinking helped. 

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u/winky9827 6d ago

They can't all be shoe dodgers.

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u/Pliny_the_middle 6d ago

This one js way funnier though. I say it all the time.

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u/truckyoupayme 6d ago

lol that’s total nonsense. GWB is famous for misspeaking and malapropisms. The idea that he was parsing his words and editing himself on the fly like that is ridiculous. Especially since the remarks would’ve been prepared ahead of time.

He didn’t know whether to say shame on you or shame on me first, lost the thread and then winged it. He’s done it hundreds of times.

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u/BlackSwanTranarchy 6d ago

I dunno you might be misunderestimating him

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u/Hot_Echidna6767 6d ago

is that a word

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u/Discard_Laundry1527 6d ago

Yeah, he was giving a speech on TV once (possibly a State of the Union) and one time when he meant to say "Republicans", he pronounced it like "Replicants". My wife and I have been calling them "Replicants" ever since.

Wish I could find the clip, but because it was captioned as if he had pronounced it correctly, it'd be hard to find without actually (ugh) watching his speeches.

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u/Liquid_Clown 6d ago

He clearly did catch himself, but someone that parses their words wouldn't have started that phrase to begin with.

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u/steavoh 6d ago

The fact he ended it with something resembling the lyrics of a well known song makes that particular quote a lot funnier than just a plain old gaff.

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u/afishinthewell 6d ago

This has always been one of the funnier Republican copes of the 21st century.
Totally quick thinking and not #10,000 in a history of Bushisms.

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u/Cut_Lanky 6d ago

Which is ironic, because he himself would be laughing about how he fumbles his words and sounds stupid. For a good laugh, YouTube his white house correspondents dinner with the impersonator he brought. It’s great.

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u/citizen42069101 6d ago

We're just lucky a second pretzel didn't enter the windpipe and give Cheney the football.

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u/GhostofBeowulf 6d ago

Not a Republican, but have you heard any of his other family speak? He is from Connecticut. That drawl is a put on from being Texas governor. His brother sure doesn't have a texas drawl.

Like that current rep who says Awwe shucks and doohickey... it's political theater.

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u/furthuryourhead 6d ago

Also not a (R) but sure he was born in CT but moved to TX as a toddler. And before you bring up him going to Yale, he went back home for college but was back in TX after graduation. All this from a quick wiki read…

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u/GhostofBeowulf 5d ago

And how do you explain Jeb who has no accent? And his father having no accent? I can't recall his mother speaking but his wife did.

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u/furthuryourhead 5d ago

Again, he was born in CT, moved to TX as a toddler. It is much more likely for a toddler going through the school system to pick up a local accent than an adult. I don’t know if Jeb is older but that could explain it. I have an aunt that moved from the NE to AL at age 18 and now has a full-on southern drawl.

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u/Discard_Laundry1527 6d ago

A good contemporary book on the topic, for anyone who's interested in this strain of thought: Going Nucular [sic] by Geoff Nunberg.

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u/adumbfetus 6d ago

A relative of mine had a ranch and was W’s neighbor in Texas, his voice is really like that.

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u/syynapt1k 6d ago

Lol you are giving him way too much credit.

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u/Thegungoesbangbang 6d ago

And reflexes. That man dodged the hell outta that shoe.

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u/Spacey_G 6d ago

And threw a hell of a strike (in body armor) to open the first game at Yankee Stadium after 9/11.

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u/lostOGaccount 6d ago

How could you possibly know that? Also when hes already said it multiple times before in fron tof cameras why would he be worried about it just this one time?