“Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.”
Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Variant: You're so unhip, it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off.
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Statement on * NewsChat
1997-10-11
Television
MSNBC to disabled Vietnam veteran Bobby Muller, who made the incorrect statement that 90% of American soldiers "blown up" by landmines in Vietnam had hit American landmines: the actual fact being that 90% of landmines placed by the enemy had used parts from US ordinance. Later reports paraphrased this as "People like you caused us to lose that war." Of these she declared on CounterSpin (9 October 2002):
1980s-90s
“Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.”
Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Variant: You're so unhip, it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off.
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Hold up," Leo said. "You guys lost a dragon? A Real full size dragon?”
Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero
Source: The Lost Hero
Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser.”
Harry Reid (1939) American politician
on George W. Bush. Las Vegas Review-Journal http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/May-06-Fri-2005/news/reid.html, May 6, 2005
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
2013-10-13
Super Soul Sunday
TV
OWN
http://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/Soul-to-Soul-with-Diana-Nyad-Im-an-Atheist-Whos-In-Awe-Video, quoted in * 2013-10-15
Why Oprah's Anti-Atheist Bias Hurts So Much
David Niose
Our Humanity, Naturally
Psychology Today
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-humanity-naturally/201310/why-oprahs-anti-atheist-bias-hurts-so-much
in response to endurance swimmer Diana Nyad saying she can "weep with the beauty of this universe and be moved by all of humanity".
“Transported with the view, I'm lost
In wonder, love and praise.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 453 (9 August 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Context: When all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I'm lost
In wonder, love and praise.