When I was a kid, I thought "Dewey Defeats Truman" referred to Dwight Eisenhower beating Harry Truman...

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When I was a kid, I thought "Dewey Defeats Truman" referred to Dwight Eisenhower beating Harry Truman for the presidency. After all, as a Red Sox fan, I was well aware that right fielder Dwight Evans' nickname was "Dewey," so why not Ike?  Little did I know that Eisenhower's nickname wasn't "Dewey" and Truman wasn't running in that election.

I also thought that Tip O'Neill was the coach in Bad News Bears, and that "Tip" was short for "Tatum," since Tip looked a bit like Walter Matthau, and Tatum O'Neal was in Bad News Bears.

(Apologies to you younger folks who have to Google all of that to know what I am talking about.) G+

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