Wednesday, December 19, 2007

“Don’t Tase Me, Bro” tops ‘07 memorable quote list



“Don’t Tase Me, Bro,” a phrase that swept the nation after a U.S. college student used it seeking to stop campus police from throwing him out of a speech by Sen. John Kerry, was named on Wednesday as the most memorable quote of 2007.

Fred R. Shapiro, the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, said the plea made by University of Florida student Andrew Meyer on September 17, accompanied by Meyer’s screams as he was tased, beat out the racial slur that cost shock jock Don Imus his job and the Iranian president’s declaration that his country does not have homosexuals.

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