More double negative jokes
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I think this one is the funniest:
— Julie Wills (@JulieBeth48) July 18, 2018
But there are lots more. A small sample of the more light-hearted ones:
"The only thing we don't have to fear isn't fear itself." – Franklin Roosevelt #DoubleNegative
— Cody Pomeranz (@CodyPom13) July 17, 2018
Lincoln: "A house divided against itself can't not stand." #DoubleNegative
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/syko1969/status/1019305708301369345
"I believe it is not not peace for our time." – Chamberlain clarifying his comments after Munich in 1938. #DoubleNegative #DoubleNegativeDefense #TrumpPutinSummit
— Tamas Peragovics (@peragovicstamas) July 18, 2018
Wow, all this time he was right…”Mexico ‘isn’t’ going to pay for the Wall”#DoubleNegative
— Flynn Rider (@FlynnRider1812) July 17, 2018
Who among us hasn't not used accidentally on purpose what wasn't not surely unlikely to be perhaps certainly correctly misconstrued language that didn't sound incorrect until we misread the transcript? #doublenegative
— Rich Schoenstein (@LawfulRiches) July 17, 2018
This is not not a trainwreck. #DoubleNegative pic.twitter.com/wiHHzorY7a
— Thomas Vanderveken (@ThomasVdveken) July 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/OOOhTwit/status/1019307193445777410
https://twitter.com/JamesMiner3/status/1019362731663781889
https://twitter.com/4everNeverTrump/status/1019326880686587904
What Trump meant to say:
“I do solemnly swear that I WON’T faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and WON’T to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."#Wouldnt pic.twitter.com/ckONLtluiw
— Bryan Dawson🇺🇸 (@BryanDawsonUSA) July 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/serenityscene/status/1019335978182295552
How much wood wouldn’t a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck wouldn’t chuck wood? #DoubleNegative
— Savyon (@GeauxSavy) July 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/un_gusanito/status/1019564046075547648
And of course there's Tom Lehrer's Electric Company song:
https://youtu.be/sScHUorw-Hc
EvelynU said,
July 18, 2018 @ 10:22 am
This is the first time I've ever heard anyone explain that the mistake they made was in NOT using a double negative! His original statement had no double negative at all. Oops. I meant to throw one in! here I was, speaking all plain, when I meant to be obfuscating!
cameron said,
July 18, 2018 @ 10:23 am
The "ask not" one missed an opportunity to insert another negation. It should be "ask not what your country can't do for you, ask not what you can't do for your country".
ErikF said,
July 18, 2018 @ 11:17 am
The Chamberlain quote could be further clarified to "I don't not believe that it isn't not peace in our time." Hmmm, I wonder if you could use steganographic techniques to hide a message inside the double negatives: I'll have to ponder that some more!
Keith said,
July 18, 2018 @ 11:51 am
"The only thing we don't have to fear isn't fear itself."
Shouldn't that have not been attributed to Franklisn't Roosevelt?
matt regan said,
July 18, 2018 @ 4:20 pm
Rightly to be Trump is not to stir without great argument, but Trumply to find quarrel in a "not". When Putin's at the stake.
chris said,
July 21, 2018 @ 12:21 pm
ISTM Hayden missed a chance to say "Who don't you think you're not kidding?" and "How dumb don't you think we aren't?"
But I can't deny that it might not have been the case that the phenomenon hadn't failed to reach full steam yet.