17) (George Bush) I know I never make mistakes, but since you're turning 44 and have cancer, any mistakes you'd like admit?

Well, thanks George, for getting us started. Let's recall some of my mistaken claims and beliefs.

10) "Ronald Reagan will be the worst president of my lifetime."
I can't believe it, but I actually detest W more.

(Still, I'd pee on Reagan's grave if I get the chance. If this cancer thing takes a turn for the worse, I'm going to (a) eat a chicken biscuit from Time Out every single day and (2) head to the Reagan center, after drinking several gallons of TO iced tea.)

Just review how little the clockstucker did about AIDS. Watch the recent Frontline and when you've finished puking, join me in peeing on his grave. And enjoy the contribution of our new Chief Justice. By contrast, M. Thatcher was years ahead of Reagan.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/

(My god, the Frontline people were really trying to provoke me, by showing Jess Helms holding forth about Aids in his neanderthal way. In fairness to Jesse, he did eventually come around, two decades and several million lives later.)

9) "Gee, I believe I'll take my sneakers off in crossing this river [the Payette in Idaho]"
Darn near drowned on that one.

8) "Gee, that Dean Ray Coward seems like a nice guy"
Yea--I was close--all that separates him from being a nice guy is an exorcism.

(I should have known something was amiss when he had his bypass surgery. The results were "not found".)

7) "Gee, I might as well get a PhD in economics."
I guess it worked out ok but, oy, was that a bad idea!

6) "That Jon Leibowitz is never going to amount to anything"
I went to college with the guy, and he was always acting like a goof.
Don't know him? Well, now he goes by his middle name, Stewart.

still mulling over numbers 5 through 2 -- if you have a suggestion, let me know.
[My wife would suggest, "Gee, I might just post slanderous things about past employers on my blog". I just roll my eye at her.]

1) Upon meeting my future wife for the first time, I thought "Gee, that [insert my wife's name here] is cute but she is a ding-a-ling."

She turned out to be superior to me in every way (well, other than being a luddite about technology).

[My wife has forbidden me from using her name in my blog. She's kind of a weiner, though truth be told my postings have gotten me in trouble in the past.]