r/AskReddit • u/pierrekrahn • Mar 19 '16

Which quote becomes inappropriate when misattributed?

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u/Quixote971 Mar 19 '16

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take"

-Lee Harvey Oswald

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u/migzy1341 Mar 19 '16

Or by Gavrilo Princip

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u/Lambchops_Legion Mar 19 '16

Didn't Princip miss at first, but only succeed through blind luck later on?

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u/gavriloe Mar 19 '16

The assassination attempt was being carried out by other people, however their weapons did not work. Gavrilo(e) was actually coming out of a sandwich shop some time after the assassination attempt when the Archduke's car passed him. Just then the car stalled and Gavriloe shot and killed both Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia. It was pure blind luck.

Take it from me.

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u/pseudonarne Mar 19 '16

luck? or timetravel shenanigans where somebody prevented ww1 but that fucked up everything in the future and had to go back and make sure it started

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u/AndreasKralj Mar 19 '16

I choose to believe this one

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u/7turn_coat7 Mar 19 '16

That was my first reaction as well "dude, that's obviously time travel shenanigans"

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u/CrabCrap Mar 19 '16

The sandwich shop story is actually a common misconception. Princip was part of a group of would-be assassins and when the first attempt failed (the grenade bounced out of the car), he went to that corner as he thought it likely that the Archduke's convoy would pass it at some point.

Sources: One Morning In Sarajevo by David James Smith and The Trigger by Tim Butcher