Comment on If you've been fooled, does that make you "a fool"?

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• kambusha@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fool me… you can’t get fooled again.

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  • cynar@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apparently that quote was where a scriptwriter almost screwed Bush over.

    The full phrase is “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Bush realised he was about to give the media a sound bite of him saying “Shame on me”.

    Given the context, it’s far more understandable why he flubbed it.

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    • kambusha@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Kinda funny how its probably survived much longer because of the improvisation, but yeah, I get why you wouldn’t want to say that.

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  • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s an old saying in Tennessee… I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee…

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    • Smeagol666@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This was Dubyah trying to quote the old saying that starts “fool me once, shame on you…”. I used to think HE was dumb, now we have people in office that make him look like a Rhodes Scholar.

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• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But what if… we don’t get fooled again. Yeaaaaaah

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