Inadvertent Quotables

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• Mystery story on Gizmodo.com
  12,000 rare and endangered antelope carcasses

• Channel 10 News, Sacramento (July 2004) an unknown California legislator talking about the difficulty of governing California:
  ... well, it isn't like Wyoming where the number of people per capita is one point two or something ...

• French Open (June 2004) Mary Jo Fernandez talking about Maria Sharapova:
  She was born in Russia when she was six.

• Good Morning Sacramento (Nov 2002) Officer Rich Wetzel on dealing with fog:
  Slow your speed way down and crack your windshield so you can hear what you can't see.

• KCRA News (Aug 2001): State Fair opens
  There's plenty of ample parking.

• KCRA News (June 29 2001): A doctor explaining heart arythmia:
  Can cause significant death

• Professor Phillipson (1987):
  Infinitely long enough.

• Professor Phillipson (1987):
  Exactly sort of...

• Nick O'Kelly, KNTV San Jose:
  ... high levels of low level ozone.

• The Weather Channel (1995):
  We have flooding in New Orleans with severe weather in Nebraska.

• The Weather Channel (1995):
  The East Coast is going to stay mostly where it is supposed to be.

• Republican commentary on Dan Quayle's withdrawal (1995):
  The overall impact will be to narrow the field.

• Steve Cassidy, KOOL 105, Denver:
  It looks like we could get some more rain tonight, but it all depends on the weather.

• My Mom, talking about my seizure medication's side effects:
  How will you know if it's the drug or the bite marks that cause your slurred vision?

• Big Sur Waterbed's commercial:
  Imagine a solid wood waterbed...

• David Attenborough's Life On Earth:
  There were extinct horses that roamed the plains.

• Denver Channel 7 news Weather person (Sept. 1989):
  Two fronts, back to back.

• Some hockey game:
  Back to back face-offs.

• Karen Merritt, Denver Channel 2 news Weather (Aug. 1993):
  ... typical August weather for this time of year.

• Denver Channel 4 news Weather person (June 1987):
  We don't often get those early morning thunderstorms, but we did this morning, and they were back this afternoon.

• A movie (Western):
  Hand me your rifle and back up to that ravine. Butt first!

• A telephone recording:
  We're sorry. The number you have reached has been changed. The new number is ...