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Edited to replace original incorrect Herzog attribution with my own version that correctly attributes the quote

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[–] [email protected] 270 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Note:

He never said that. This quote is from William Pannapacker, a professor of American literature at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/werner-herzog-germany-quote/

[–] [email protected] 163 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every time I do it; makes me laugh!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh, by the way thanks for that comment the other day!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's like a free ride when you've already paid AM I DOING THIS RIGHT

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It’s like rain, on your karma train.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Anytime 🫶🏻

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

This is wow you remind me

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

That's my favourite Dr. Who quote

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Audibly laughed!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I need this as a t-shirt for the next concert I go to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Huge fan of your style. This cements that even further.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Ah, figures. I should know better than to post quotes without checking if they're attributed correctly

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

"Ah, figures. I should know better than to post quotes without checking if they're attributed correctly"

- ~~Wayne Gretzky~~

- Michael Scott

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You should probably correct it right? Like swap the image for a different Herzog quote, or change it so the image is William

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That is very doable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

keep all text, including the misattribution to werner herzog and substitute a portrait of william shatner.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I immediately thought that doesn't sound like something Herzog would say.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, figures. I should know better than to post quotes without checking if they’re attributed correctly

jackie chan wtf meme

Why don't you correct it then? (Eg, either delete your post, or replace the linked image with an updated one that attributes the quote correctly.)

This isn't facebook; please don't post years-old misattributed quote memes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Would have cost you exactly 0 € to not be a cunt, but here you are.

I didn't correct it because I was away from my computer for an extended period – the current version has a different image and is correctly attributed. I didn't delete it because then the existing conversation in the comments would have also gotten nuked, exactly the same reason the mod didn't delete it either.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's nice to imagine Werner's voice saying it though

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

It's nice to imagine him saying anything at all...dude could brutally roast me and I'd be like that was beautiful sir.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Maybe just a third of him said that...?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

So like contextually it’s a provocative statement. But it feels really weird and downright dishonest to use the cloak of ‘parody’ in this case.