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

• cynar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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  • Smeagol666@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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