Comment on If you've been fooled, does that make you "a fool"?
cynar@lemmy.world 3 months agoApparently 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.
kambusha@lemmy.world 3 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.