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** Better still is when [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/feb/19/gibraltar.world the British Marines 'misplaced' Gibraltar] and wound up invading Spain and scaring several fishermen. The real kicker is that Gibraltar ''is a 1,400 foot tall rock''. One can't help but wonder why they actually landed when it should have been obvious they were in the wrong place.
* [[wikipedia:Wicked Bible|The Wicked Bible]]. Best. Typo. Ever. For the record, its {{spoiler|Thou shall <s>not</s> commit adultery}}.
** [[wikipedia:Bible errata|errors in bible printing weren't that uncommon back in the day]] another mistake is "The Fools Bible": where it states that ""the fool hath said in his heart there is a God" more examples in the link and the [[Good Omens
** Quick, to the POPE-MOBILE!
* [[Barack Obama]] re: [[Kanye West]]: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=078BGtKNL1o He's a jackass.]"
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** Really that entire closing ceremony was a cavalcade of hilarious self parody.
* Gen. Canrobert puzzled by the tactical style (or lack thereof) British troops demonstrated in the Crimean campaign, finally having the [[Eureka Moment]]: ''"They fight as Queen Victoria dances!"''
* While traveling to Belfast for a promotional screening, [[Matt Smith]] (a.k.a. [[Doctor Who
* Back twenty years ago, "Toughman" competitions were a popular crowd draw for a bar. People voluntarily (to the extent "voluntary" and "drunk" can coincide) sign up to box three one-minute rounds, winners get a cut of the take. Contestants tend to be long on liquid courage, short on technique, and the crowd can be harsh if the fight lacks drama. One such fight had the two guys completely gassed halfway through the second round, they could hardly raise a glove, much less make a punch. The crowd let its wrath be heard, but one leather-lunged fella made his point clearly above the din: "Hit him with your purse, you pussy!"
* Despite the panic it probably caused, this quote is outrageously funny.
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* After [[Gordon Brown]] was caught on microphone calling a woman "bigoted" in his car during the 2010 British general election campaign, Labour's senior leadership try to relaunch their campaign by unveiling a poster. During an outdoor speech by Lord Mandelson in front of one of the new posters, a car crashed into a bus shelter nearby.
** Even better was the driver's sketch of the incident on his insurance claims form - as well as including a sketch of his car crashed into a phone box (rather than a bus shelter) and a passing refuse lorry (which he alleged had bumped him into the shelter), he included a drawing of a crowd of frowning stick people, one bearing the label "PM" (Prime Minister), standing in front of posters saying "Labour are not rubbish". Snappier than the slogan they actually had, and conveying the same message!
* British actress Joanna Lumley - of The New Avengers and ''[[
* Jimmy Carter attacked by giant swimming rabbit. [[Xkcd
* [[Richard Nixon]] was once driving along, and while stopped at a red light was flipped off by a teenage protester. Nixon proceeded to flip the kid off right back, then turned to his aide and said, "Now that kid will get to tell his grandchildren that he was ''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|flipped off by the President of the United States]]!''"
* In the '80s, a Welsh farmer got so annoyed with [[Royal Air Force]] transport planes flying low over his property that he painted "Piss Off [[Biggles]]" in giant letters on the roof of his barn. Upon which the RAF began using the barn as a navigational landmark, though apparently they did respect his wishes and flew higher.
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* Real Madrid wins the Spanish Cup...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXxSuzRpTps Then runs over it with a bus]. [[Never Live It Down|Poor Sergio]].
** Doesn't end there. [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/sergio-ramos-penalty-fail Sergio Ramos will never EVER get rid of this little stain...]
* Many of the CIA's plots against Fidel Castro in the 1960's and early '70's were truly hilarious and bizarre and read like material from a [[Saturday Night Live]] or [[Monty Python]] sketch. Several of these were not even assassination plots but attempts to merely humiliate Castro in the hopes that the Cuban people would no longer take him seriously and would then throw him out of power on their own(and presumably clear a path for a puppet dictator that the US could install). One such plot would have involved spraying the air ducts of the radio station where Castro made his weekly radio broadcasts with a hallucinogenic drug that would have caused him to have an acid trip and make a fool of himself on the air. Another plot--which is actually alluded to in the Oliver Stone film ''[[JFK (
** Similarly, some of the plots to assassinate/discredit [[Adolf Hitler]] were also pretty bonkers. One involved flying an airplane over Hitler's private retreat/bunker and dropping bombs loaded with various poisonous snakes to either kill Hitler or scare the crap out of him on a daily basis. Another involved trying to spike Hitler's food with estrogen to feminize him.
* What happens when you do not pay much attention to what your enemies do: during World War I, both the British Royal Navy and the German Kaiserliche Marine were using auxiliary cruisers (merchant ships armored and given guns to protect themselves from enemy commerce raiders. The ships would also be "hidden" with fake markings, smokestacks and others that might, from afar, make those ships look like those of the enemy. In the 1914 Battle of Trindade, the German ''SMS Cap Trafalgar'' faced the British ''RMS Carmania'', and both of them were disguised. The fun part was that ''Cap Trafalgar'' was disguised as the ''Carmania'', while the ''Carmania'' was disguised as the ''Cap Trafalgar''. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity]] (and British victory) ensued.
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