Some grown-ups say the dumbest things, don’t they?
“The Internet is a great way to get on the net.”
—Senator Bob Dole
“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”
—Brooke Shields
“You guys line up alphabetically by height.”
—Bill Peterson, football coach
“Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.”
—Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.
“I’ve worked it out: You can sleep a third of your life, so if you can reduce that to a quarter, you have more time awake.”
—Nicole Kidman
“I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our 52 states.”
—Raquel Welch, actress
“Strangely, in slowmotion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.”
—David Acfield, newscaster
“The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.”
—Dizzy Dean, baseball great
“I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.”
—Britney Spears
“Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.”
—President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Casa Botín in Madrid, Spain, is the world’s oldest restaurant. It first opened in 1725.