There was the Reverend William Spooner - "You have hissed all my mystery lectures, and were caught fighting a liar in the quad. Having tasted two worms, you will leave by the next town drain". Followed by a succession of word muddlers, including Officer Crabtree in 'Allo 'Allo recalling a "nit on the bonk of the Thames" (night on the bank of the Thames) with a female "secret urgent" (secret agent).
George Bush brings it all up to date with his collection of Bushisms. Some silly, some naive, and some plainly rather deceptive. the BBC has a list of some of the best. The one that gets me is "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." Not a mangled malapropism but smething more sinister. Had he got the trillion dollar deficit in mind?
The list is here.
The case for defence I made on GB News last night
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Why did the government watch 200 shadow tankers sail by, then take one
over? Is it going to take the oil cargo and sell it? Or will it let the
ship go afte...
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