Wow! Although it puts me in mind of something Harold Ross, my editorial hero, once wrote to a non-producing writer: "I have been like Christ in my patience..."
"Not content with merely swearing off sex until the Italian elections...."
A couple of days later, he said he was only joking. Which seemed perfectly plausible, in context, at least so far as I could tell through the English translation. Not so good a story, though.
"I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this."
It'd be really cool if Berlusconi had to say something like that.
I cna't wait for the musicals.
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 02-13-06 1:53 PM
damn, I even previewed and everything.
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 02-13-06 1:54 PM
Wow! Although it puts me in mind of something Harold Ross, my editorial hero, once wrote to a non-producing writer: "I have been like Christ in my patience..."
Posted by John Tingley | Link to this comment | 02-13-06 1:55 PM
It'd be awesome if Bush said something like that.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 02-13-06 2:17 PM
yawn. But yeah, what's he going to say next? I mean, seems like he shot his load a bit early. Nobody left to compare himself with.
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 02-13-06 2:34 PM
Dammit, td, quit blogpwning me!
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-13-06 2:44 PM
Nobody left to compare himself with.
Well, he could compare himself to the hero.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 02-13-06 3:44 PM
"Not content with merely swearing off sex until the Italian elections...."
A couple of days later, he said he was only joking. Which seemed perfectly plausible, in context, at least so far as I could tell through the English translation. Not so good a story, though.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 02-13-06 7:08 PM
Hmm, he says he was joking about the Napoleon comparison, too.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-13-06 7:21 PM
"I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this."
It'd be really cool if Berlusconi had to say something like that.
Posted by Paul | Link to this comment | 02-13-06 8:46 PM
Nobody left to compare himself with.
He could still go for Supply-Side Jesus.
Posted by ogmb | Link to this comment | 02-13-06 10:40 PM
You left ", Batman!" off the end of the title of this post.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 02-14-06 6:22 AM
"Holy Roman Empire, Mr. The Batman." (Geez, don't expect me to find the link to teh relevant Unfogged thread.)
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 8:23 PM
Teh revenant Unfogged thread.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 8:27 PM