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* Employee restraint clauses are supposed to help defy this by preventing companies from creating their own competitors, at least for a time. Supposed to.

* In 1976, on the eve of the West Indies [[Cricket]] team's tour of England, English captain Tony Greig (an expatriate South African) commented, "If they're down, they (the West Indians) grovel, and I (...) intend to make them grovel." The comment incensed the West Indians, who proceeded to annihilate England in the series. West Indies captain Clive Lloyd commented:

* A Congressman who was campaigning against a cell phone ban while driving got into a fenderbender while conducting a radio interview on the subject on his cell phone.

* The [[Comics Code]] Authority forbade ''any'' reference to drugs, even negative portrayals. When [[Stan Lee]] was asked ''by the US Government'' to do an anti-drug magazine, the CCA refused to approve it. Stan Lee just released it without CCA approval, and readers happily filled in that approval gap. Result: The CCA ended up looking clueless and eventually going out of business altogether in 2011.