Be Careful What You Say....

“Be careful what you say it will come back to haunt you!”  I think I’ve heard this about a

million times in my life and for good reason.  I have always had the knack of saying

things that do come back to haunt me.  It started in my earliest childhood when I

claimed to be able to fly, jumped off the back porch, and promptly split open my head. 

My words are spoken often in haste and with no time to formulate an intelligent reply that

would be more palatable and more digestable for me. (Translated “I’ve eaten my share of

crow). 

This can be a handy ability and almost a super power.  I’ve always had a quick wit and

most of the time have an answer to everything, giving new meaning to the phrase “don’t

let the facts get in the way of a good story”.  I’m not the only person who shares this trait

and many of us who do are quite famous.  Here are some wonderful examples:

“640K is all the memory that anyone will ever need.”  Bill Gates (Currently we are making hard drives with a trillion bits of storage space)

            “Smoking kills.  If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”

            Brooke Shields

            “Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out

            2 plus 2 is 10 or something.”  Dennis Rodman

            “And now the sequence of events, in no particular order.”  Dan Rather

            “You can’t just let nature run wild.”  George Hickey, former Governor of

            Alaska

And the winning quote is……

“There aren’t enough Indians in the world to defeat the 7^th Calvary.”  General George Armstrong Custard

You tell’em George!