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What I really meant was . . .

Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
in The Circus
Recently a certain world political figure made headlines when he put his foot in his mouth, and promptly changed course by putting it up his derriere instead.

What a different world it would be if certain historical figures had said what they really meant to say, rather than what they did say.

For example: Marie Antoinette, the world's first diet queen, could have given rise to generations of physically fit Frenchmen and changed forever one of the world's most renown cuisines, if she had said what she really meant:

Don't let them eat cake!

What examples spring to your mind?
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    Cain: Am I not my brother's keeper?
  • Curiosity killedCuriosity killed Shipmate
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  • Schroedingers CatSchroedingers Cat Shipmate, Waving not Drowning Host
    Martin Luther King: "I had a nightmare. You don't want to hear about that."
  • PigwidgeonPigwidgeon Shipmate
    Then said Jesus unto [Judas], "That thou doest, put off for a while, or maybe like forever."
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    By Trump. "I left out a negative. What I meant to say was 'I have decided not to run for President'. "
  • ClimacusClimacus Shipmate
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  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
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  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
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  • mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
    edited July 2018
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    Pigwidgeon wrote: »
    Thou shalt commit adultery.
    It's been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible
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  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    Enoch wrote: »
    We are amused ... (followed by loud and dirty sounding guffaws) ......

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    Amanda B Reckondwyth wrote: »
    All that glitters is gold.
    Only shooting stars break the mold.
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    Oliver Cromwell: You know, he's quite right. Kings do rule by Divine Right.
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    You mean you're not Dr Livingstone? Who are you then?
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    Richard Nixon: O.K., you got me -- I am a crook.
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    Saul, Saul, why don't you persecute me?
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    To be fond of dancing was a certain step toward falling in a heap on the dance floor.
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