A moment of nerdery: One letter off famous quotes

October 25, 2009 at 12:57 am | Posted in Football, Idiocy, Media, Minda's Take, NCAA football, Nerdery | 2 Comments

The Husker football team had more turnovers than points today (8 and 7, respectively) in what some are calling the worst loss in team history. Only really crappy teams lose to Iowa State, and only historically sloppy squads turn the ball over EIGHT TIMES in one game to a team like that. Or at all. (Sorry, ISU fans. It’s the truf.)

It was a dark day to be a Husker fan. It really would be best for me to not think about that crapfest of a game any more tonight, or ever again.

So as a distraction, I turn to Twitter. Joe Posnanski got on a roll tonight, posting a series of famous quotations with one letter changed. Here are some of my favorites.

This is SporksCenter.

“I’m mad as well, and I’m not going to take it anymore.” -Joe Posnanski

“Like sands in the hour glass, so are the days of our liver.” -JoePo

“Man, the Force be with you.” -JoePo again

“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to dig.” -Amanda Rykoff

““The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall now be infringed.” – OldHossRabourn

“The beers are who we thought they were!” -Andrew Bucholtz (of course, this could have been said about that main team in BASEketball!)

“…in order to form a more perfect onion…” -my account, but my brother thought of it.

“The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with ham.” -Biff Whammy

“We’re gonna need a bigger goat.” -Shakey

“Goodness gracious, great balls on fire” -Lee Taft (Yikes!)

“This is SporksCenter.” -my account, but another of my brothers thought of it.

Here’s the search page for all Tweets tagged #OneLetterOffFamousQuotes. I’m sure I missed some good ones – add your favorites in the comments!

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