Top quotes? Mahmoud takes the bronze

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12/19/2007

by Jeremy Hooper

Picture 3-94 Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comment about there being "no gays" in his country has taken third place in this year's ale Book of Quotations list of memorable quotes (behind "Don't tase me, bro" and the Miss South Carolina's geography mangling):

List: Year's Most Memorable Quotes [AP via Google]

So let's see here -- Our top memories of the year are a college student yelling about unwarranted police action, a young woman having a nationally televised brain fart, and a foreign leader denying that the gays that are often hanged in his nation even exist in the first place? Wow. Life really is like a giant high school, wherein the sharp minds and the poignant thinkers are always out-populared by the well endowed cheerleader and the crazy fun dude who can eat his weight in Doritos!

But moving on from bemoaning our collective misplaced priorities, we do want to also acknowledge that Larry Craig's "wide stance" claims took the the #8 spot on the list. That might seem like low placement to you. Although it's actually quite fitting, as you can see that Craig follows...