lol - in uk we have similar but they are called "Colemanballs" after an old british sports commentator/presenter David Coleman who was renowned for issuing such verbal blunders - now the term is applied to any pundit or politician etc who tries to get to clever with language and fouls up
such classics as:
"We didn't underestimate them. They were a lot better than we thought."
Bobby Robson after England nearly lost to Cameroon, WC 1990.
"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered"
George Best.
"Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals."
PETER WITHE, speaking on Radio 5 Live
"They (Rosenborg) have won 66 games, and they've scored in all of them."
BRIAN MOORE, ITV
"It's now 1-1, an exact reversal of the score on Saturday."
Radio 5 Live
"I never make predictions and I never will."
PAUL GASCOIGNE
"Celtic manager Davie Hay still has a fresh pair of legs up his sleeve."
JOHN GREIG
"It's headed away by John Clark, using his head."
DEREK RAE
"In terms of the Richter Scale this defeat was a force eight gale."
JOHN LYALL
"In comparison, there's no comparison."
RON GREENWOOD
"I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way."
RON ATKINSON
"Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer."
DAVID ACFIELD
"I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat"
Ron Atkinson (1979)
"For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip"
John Motson - BBC TV
"Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose."
Kevin Keegan
"It was like being in a foreign country"
(Ian Rush - On the difficulties of adjusting to playing football and living in Italy)
"Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew."
(Harry Carpenter - BBC TV Boat Race 1977)
lol
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!