this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
487 points (97.8% liked)

Technology

59201 readers
3114 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's also another continuation: "fool me twice - shame on me".

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The above was a reference to a rather famous instance of George W Bush fumbling over trying to remember the full quite.

[–] rckclmbr@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

He didn't forget the quote, he realized he was going to say "shame on me" and didn't want to be quoted as saying "shame on me" so was trying to think of something else to say

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 4 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

fumbling over

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.