Talk:Paul Harvey

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• Republicans always pull down the shades though there is seldom a reason. Democrats never pull down the shades though they always should.

• "I'll tell you what let's do".

• At Harvey House ...

• My darling Angel ...

• Young son Paul ...

• Allllll right!

• It's a ... a ... Tru ... Value!

• You'll love...Jolly Time...popcorn!

• C ... as in citrus ... Cal as in Calcium ... Cit-ri-cal.

• Just when you thought it couldn't get better, it got better!

• Don't settle for anything less than the very best!

• When pitching a popular product, he is known to say, "People are ordering and re-re-re-ordering..."

• When announcing a toll-free number, he is known to say "It's a free call!"

• "Coffee's good for you, coffee's bad for you..." {followed by the latest conflicting medical or science announcement}

• In Kansas City, little Jimmy Adams wanted a firecracker, but it's the wrong time of year. He found an empty metal CO2 canister and packed it full of kitchen matches, the kind that strike anywhere. To make a hole in the side for a fuse, he pounded in a steel nail. (Extended long pause) He was thirteen.
  • Listener recollection, from about 1962

• Today's dumb criminal walked up to a bank teller in Swansea, Massachusetts, and demanded cash. When she told him he was at the wrong window, he fainted. Fainted! Then when police arrived to arrest the still-unconscious robber, they also found his getaway car...with the keys locked inside.
  • from one of his 2001 broadcasts

• Golf is a game in which you yell "Fore!", shoot six, and write down five.

• If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

• Gonads are useful for their purpose, but they are no substitute for brains.
  • 2006 broadcast