TOP 10 QUOTES OF THE YEAR

I'm going to go ahead and say that this year has been a BRUTAL year for quotes. Because the "Yale Book of Quotations" just released their list of the top 10 quotes of 2007 . . . and "Don't Tase me, bro" was their choice as the BEST quote of the year.


"Don't Tase me, bro" is what 21-year-old Andrew Meyer, a student at the University of Florida, said when he was getting roughed up by campus police officers. They were throwing him out of a building for trying to antagonize JOHN KERRY during a speech.


And they ended up Tasing him anyway (--bro).


Fred Shapiro is the editor of the "Yale Book of Quotations" . . . he says that's the quote of the year because it's a, quote, "symbol of pop culture success." Within two days, it was on T-shirts, made into ringtones . . . and the videos of it were YouTube phenomena.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XWijwmvGU4


--Here are the rest of the top 10 quotes of the year.


#2.) LAUREN UPTON, Miss Teen South Carolina, answering a question at the Miss Teen America pageant about why one-fifth of Americans can't find the U.S. on a map.

Quote, "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and the Iraq and everywhere like such as . . .and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us."

#3.) Iran's president, MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, quote, "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country."

#4.) DON IMUS, about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, quote, "That's some nappy-headed hos there."

#5.) Former U.S. Attorney General ALBERTO GONZALES' repeated answer at a Congressional hearing about whether he fired several U.S. attorneys, quote, "I don't recall."

#6.) SENATOR JOE BIDEN, at a Democratic presidential candidate debate, speaking about RUDY GIULIANI, quote, "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: A noun, a verb and 9/11."

#7.) Senate majority leader HARRY REID, talking about BIG DICK CHENEY, quote, "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9% approval rating."

#8.) SENATOR LARRY CRAIG, explaining that when his foot touched an undercover officer's foot in a bathroom stall, it wasn't because he wanted to solicit gay sex, quote, "[I have] a wide stance when going to the bathroom."

#9.) Biden again, talking about BARACK OBAMA, quote, "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."

#10.) Former President JIMMY CARTER, in a newspaper interview, quote, "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history."