Tolices

Na 3:ª feira, 24 de Fevereiro, foram publicadas neste blogue (http://novaaguia.blogspot.com/2009/02/frases.html) um conjunto de frases atribuídas ao Presidente do Brasil. Alertei pacientemente o autor do post para a conveniência de não deixar alastrar a quantidade de tolices que por aqui se têm deixado. As frases em questão, ainda há um ano, circulavam na internet como pérolas do "pensamento de Bush"; antes disso, disse eu, tinham sido atribuídas a outros.

Que não, respondeu-me o autor do post. As frases "sairam da boca da besta mesmo". Disse-me mais, em tom amuadinho, que me "deixa o espaço todo".

Deus me livre de tanto espaço. Mas deixo aqui a possibilidade de cada um confirmar o que está em causa. Copio de um dos vários sites na Internet disponíveis sobre o assunto, a saber:
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/quayle.asp

"Quayle quotes

Quote: Vice-President Dan Quayle once said, "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have ws that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people"

Status: False.

Origins: (...) In April 1989, Representative Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island told a gathering of Republicans that she had recently attended an event at the Belgian Embassy, where Vice-President Quayle complimented her on her command of French. Then, Shneider said, the Vice-President added: "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have ws that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people". Ms Shneider concluded by admitting that the story was merely a joke (...)

Dan Quayle has certainly made more than his share of misstatements, and most of the ones of the following lists are actually Quayle quotes (although versions of this list with all the quotes mischievously attributed to Vice-President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush also circulate around the Internet) (...)

- "The future will be better tomorrow" (...)

- "I stand by all the misstatements I have made"(...)

- "We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur"(...)

This following group, however, are Quayleisms, that is, comments now widely attributed to the former Vice-President that were coined by humor writers as things he might say:

- "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure"

- "A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls"

- "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it"