"Cold Water", Mule Variations (1999).
“You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
“Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.”
“Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
November 1957 - Told to Joseph G. Martin, then Aide-de-Camp to Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Hooks, as Lt. Martin escorted Dr. von Kármán from New York City to lead a secret symposium on space flight in Cloudcroft, NM. Sputnik had been launched a month before and every branch of the US military had a separate space program and were desperately trying to get off a successful launch.
The Life and Times of Joe Gordon (To the Best of My Recollection) by Joseph G. Martin (self published, 2007)
“I have it on good authority that Yankee men are so lazy they marry pregnant women.”
It's something I allegedly said on TV. Why doesn't somebody produce a tape of that?
Kurtz declared that the original source of the paraphrase he used was Coulter herself in her account of the episode to him:
The account of Ann Coulter's remarks to the veteran on MSNBC was provided to me by Coulter herself, who told me she liked the piece and never complained about the passage until she was trying to sell books.
As quoted in "Ann Slanders" by Steve Rendall in Extra! (November/December 2002) http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1124.
1980s-90s
“Pregnant women got someone else in there hangin' from their ribcage goin' "We got to go now."”
Stuff Happens (album) (1985)
“If you gotta be wrong 'bout somthin', that's 'bout the best thing they is to be wrong 'bout.”
Pogo comic strip (1948 - 1975), Porky Pine
Context: (After Pogo says, Eventual Porky, I figger ev'ry critter's heart's in the right place., Porky responds:) If you gotta be wrong 'bout somthin', that's 'bout the best thing they is to be wrong 'bout.
