“With Notably Rare Exceptions”

“With notably rare exceptions, Newt Gingrich is a loyal and faithful husband.”

Unredeemably opaque invisible hand, huh.

With rare exceptions, you can’t get pregnant if you do it standing up.

With notably rare exceptions, Vanderleun IS aware of all Internet traditions.

With notably rare exceptions, the United States follows its treaty obligations.

With notably rare exceptions, Germany remained largely at peace with its neighbors during the 20th century.

What on earth does “unredeemably” mean in Greenspan’s sentence?

With notably rare exceptions, the levees protecting New Orleans have held fast in the face of major hurricanes.

With notably rare exceptions, simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction after August of 2002.

With noticeable rare exceptions, smoking doesn’t kill you immediately.

Also, isn’t it Greenspannery?

“With notably rare exceptions, ‘Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?’ is an ineffective rejoinder.”

With notably rare exceptions, drunk drivers generally arrive home safely.

With notably rare exceptions, locking all exits to the workplace is a harmless way to improve your employees’ productivity.

With notably rare exceptions, petroleum extraction has minimal environmental impact.

And for greater generality:

With notably rare exceptions, safety measures are unnecessary.

With notably rare exceptions, government regulation is unnecessary.

With notable rare exceptions, working as a coal miner in China is a perfectly safe career choice.

With notably rare exceptions, Chuck Norris is a pussy.

With notably rare exceptions, none of us is Spartacus.

With some exceptions (cf films 1-3), Jurassic Park has been remarkably safe.

With notably rare exceptions the republican party’s economic policies destroy the economy.

With notably rare exceptions, the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup every year.

With notably rare exceptions, insurance is a complete waste of money.

With notably rare exceptions, Charlie Sheen is coherent, lucid and ‘winning.’

With notably rare exceptions, Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black make legendary music.

With notably rare exceptions, Soylent Green is NOT people.

By the way, I’d go with #10 for the win, but @Sev left one word out.
“Though unredeemably(sic) opaque, Mr. Madoff’s invisible operations delivered excellent returns, with notably rare exceptions.”

With notably rare exceptions, Dick Cheney’s drinking while hunting has not caused any problems for members of his shooting party.

How about – with notably rare exceptions, there were no terrorist attacks on US soil under George W. Bush.

Wait, what do you mean its been done?

With notable rare exceptions as member and Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Barney Frank’s oversight of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and the financial sector in general was so exceptional as to be almost prescient.

With notable rare exceptions, the Corvair is perfectly safe to drive.

With notable rare exceptions, the Supreme Court stays out of elections.

With notable rare exceptions, the U.S. doesn’t involve its military in foreign adventures.

With notable rare exceptions, sea platforms are a safe and effective means for drilling for oil.

With notable rare exceptions, Union Carbide operated its plants in a clean and safe manner.

Nobody’s got the Titanic in yet?

With notably rare exceptions the voyage of the Titanic was uneventful.
Excepting contact with the unredeemably opaque invisible iceberg, of course.

Fwiw, I’d give the palm to @39.

With notably rare exceptions, Charlie Sheen is a man of moderate appetites.

With notably rare exceptions Mel Gibson is tolerant and polite.

With notably rare exceptions, Chinese toothpaste is safe to use.

With notably rare exceptions, Monsanto’s products improve our lives.

Premodern air travel, whether we seek to recognize it or not, was driven by a propeller-assisted version of Mongolfier compounded lift that is irredeemably opaque. With notably rare exceptions (the Hindenburg, for example), the hydrogen blimp industry provided passengers with relatively unparalleled speed, comfort, cost and safety.

The hydrogen blimp industry has found itself, of late, under the thumb of odious inhibitory regulation that stifles its growth. Government bureaucrats exploit the fears of misinformed consumers, employing scare tactics to quash the free development of legitimate industry on the facile grounds that notable exceptions cannot prove the rule. This explains the hydrogen blimp’s failure to retain market share, and offers us insight into the collapse of the economy as a whole.

With notably rare exceptions (eg the Big Bang), the wave function is continuous.

With notably rare exceptions, Walter Benjamin had an easy time crossing borders.

With notably rare exceptions, the New England Patriots were undefeated in the 2007-2008 season.

With notably rare exceptions, fiscal austerity has always been relatively expansionary.

With very rear exceptions (the invisible hand, for example) Adam Smith warned of the collusive nature of business interests.

With notably rare exceptions, the fire department is useless.

With notably rare exceptions, Richard Fuld made great decisions as the head of Lehman Brothers.

With notably rare exceptions, the shadow banking system has made the US economy more stable.

With notably rare exceptions, Lehman Brothers was a sound bank.

With notably rare exceptions, the Irish banking system has been solvent.

With notably rare exceptions, the Greek government has not needed bail-out packages.

With notably rare exceptions, Scott Walker has always negotiated in good faith with unions.

With notably rare exceptions, we have always been at war with Eastasia.

With notably rare exceptions, Greenspasms are not humorous.

With notably rare exceptions, the gold standard prevented depressions.

With notably rare exceptions, prefacing a sweeping generalization with a caveat that the opposite sometimes holds true will make any statement empirically correct.

“With notably rare exceptions, all Cretans are liars,” said Epimenides the Cretan.

With notably rare exceptions, McDonald’s can be part of healthful diet.
With notably rare exceptions, former Sen. Larry Craig is a practicing heterosexual.

#66 is the winner!!! hahahahah superb!!

“With notably rare exceptions, the Roman Empire’s crucifixion policy was successful in containing subversive religious movements among the hoi polloi.”

With notably rare exceptions, there are no occasions during the day when I need to eat or go to the toilet.

With notably rare exceptions, I don’t get ill.

With notably rare exceptions, persistent wind speeds in excess of 150 mph do not occur.

With notably rare exceptions, once I fall asleep I don’t wake up.

With notably rare exceptions, CT commenters refrain from blaming the 2008 crash on Barney Frank.

With notably rare exceptions, atomic energy has been used to the benefit of mankind.

Play at home and make as much sense:

Today’s [noun], whether we seek to recognise it or not, are driven by an [adjective] version of [someone in the room]’s “invisible [body part]” that is [made up adverb][adjective]. With notably rare exceptions ([Year], for example), the [geographic area] “invisible [body part]” has created relatively [adjective] [noun], [noun], [noun], and [noun].

With notably rare exceptions, Nassim Taleb is humble and understated.

With notably rare exceptions, Bill O’Reilly has inpeccable phone manners.

Someone who has even an iota of shame would have committed ritual suicide if they’d committed the massive screwup that Greenspan did. Not only does he not do that, he goes around making these idiot statements. Surely the dictionary definition of chutzpah needs updating.

With notably rare exceptions (1940, for example), the Tacoma Narrows Bridge is impressively stable.

Is the unredeemably opaque invisible hand seen through a glass darkly?

With notably rare exceptions (type II diabetes, for example), our food system is safe, efficient and healthy.

With notably rare exceptions, the Titanic was the world’s first unsinkable ship.

With notably rare exceptions (1948 – present, for example), Israelis and Palestinians have coexisted peacefully.

With notably rare exceptions, allowing Ayn Rand’s acolytes to serve as Federal Reserve chairmen has worked out well, both for the nation and the world.

Revised: Unredeemably opaque as are the workings of its invisible hand, with notably rare exceptions, Gaddaffi’s imaginative style of governance has been applauded by his countrymen.

With notably rare exceptions (e.g. 2004, 2011), living on the shores of the Pacific Ocean is perfectly safe.

With notably rare exceptions, Michael Jackson behaved perfectly normally.

With notably rare exceptions, the Wisconsin Republicans respect the rule of law.

“with notably rare exceptions, it’s not the fall that kills one; it’s the sudden deceleration at the end!”

With notably rare exceptions, you’re not Chevy Chase.

With notably rare exceptions, threads about memes involving “with notably rare exceptions” are notably rare.

A noticeably rare exception has occurred and Windows needs to shut down.

Whether we seek to recognize it or not, all human activities involve hazards, some of them irredeemably opaque. Alarmists notwithstanding, with notably rare exceptions, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory has been safe, employee-friendly work environment.

Without exceptions, notably rare or otherwise, an invisible hand cannot be opaque.

As Orwell said, muddled metaphors indicate that someone is not actually thinking.

Worthy: chris y @5, Tim W @8, ed @15, D Hewitt @39, Herman @57, JGabriel @66, roac @93
Brilliant: Sev @10, ed @12, 16, 49, Rob @55, Dan @75, njnnja @86, Austin @98
Winner of Internets: Jeff @78

My own humble contribution:

With notably rare exceptions, Alan Greenspan was fanatical about the integrity of the banking system and the stability of asset prices, consequences for his political benefactors be damned.

With notably rare exceptions invading Russia is a very easy task

With notably rare exceptions the emperor Caligula was an emotionally stable men

With notably rare exceptions Stalin like freedom of expression and accept criticism with joy

With notably rare exceptions, Republican politicians tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth — just like Fox TV.

With notably rare exceptions, members of Congress can be counted on to do what’s in the public interest rather than what’s in the interest of contributors to their campaign funds when the two diverge.

With notably rare exceptions, predictions of the Second Coming have prescient guides for action.

With notably rare exceptions, life is too short.

With notably rare exceptions, Adam Sandler’s comedy has remained cerebral.

With notably rare exceptions, no one was convicted & imprisoned for driving the U.S. economy off a cliff.

With notably rare exceptions, hydrogen-filled airships have been a remarkably safe mode of transportation.

With notably rare exceptions, George McGovern’s political career was one of unalloyed success.

with “noticeably” rare deceptions GMO’s are “good” for you-it is Mother Nature after all!

With notably rare exceptions, all notable events are common.

With notably rare exceptions, gravity is the force that propels earthy objects into space.

With notably rare exceptions, those who met Jeffrey Dahmer lived to tell about it.

With notably rare exceptions, suicide missions save lives.

With notably rare exceptions, the Fox News Network is fair and balanced.

@64. Too too goddam funny!!–hoping you’re well, meanwhile.

With notably rare exceptions, I’ve always found a toilet in time.

p.s. thanks everyone! this has been the funniest stuff I’ve read for a long while.

With notably rare exceptions, Mohammed Atta was a good passenger.

With notably rare exceptions, the CT readership is full of bright ideas.

The vexing question confronting regulators is whether this rising share of finance has been a necessary condition of growth in the past half century, or coincidence. With notably rare exceptions (for example institutionalised voracious parasitism), no other possibility bears examination.

With notably rare exceptions, There Is No Alternative.

[an] “invisible hand” that is unredeemably opaque.

“Let’s pretend the system doesn’t require deception and ignorance to work.”

The invisible hand is so opaque that it is, well, invisible.

With notably rare exceptions (Civ4, for example), Montezuma was a relatively stable neighboring Civ.

With notably rare exceptions (his entire coaching career, for example), Mike D’Antoni has created feisty defense first basketball teams.

With notably rare exceptions (1e D&D, for example), TSR created a perfect out of the box game that required no additional house rules.

With notably rare exceptions, Lee Siegel has been one of the most self-effacing writers of our time.

With notably rare exceptions, the moving hand writes, and having written, moves on.

With unredeemably opaque exceptions, Greenspan is handily invisible.

Would that he remained so.

With notably rare exceptions, a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

With notably rare exceptions, happy families are all alike.

With notably rare exceptions, I never make mistakes typing. (Or Spllenig errors)

“With notably rare exceptions, I have (read) all comments and they are all nice.

With notably rare exceptions, aerial bombing is a discriminate and proportionate means of warfare well-suited to achieving sundry military objectives and thus is in keeping with jus in bello principles that result in minimal–and unavoidable–collateral damage.

With notably rare exceptions, observation of the physical world provides no evidence of quantum mechanics.

Repeat for anything supported by empirical evidence.

The notion of an invisible something being opaque has got to be one of the greatest metaphors in the history of the entire world.

But, I’m sorry to say, most people here are missing the point. The concept is not that there are many exceptions, but that there is one big exception that utterly demolishes the thing under discussion.

With notably rare exceptions, civilian travel by hydrogen-filled airship was convenient and comfortable.
With notably rare exceptions, the potato was a dependable staple crop that provided ample nourishment for the Irish rural peasantry.
With notably rare exceptions, Bill Clinton’s many infidelities had little effect on his public life.

Like that.

So that the statement is literally true, because the exceptions truly are rare, but when you hear it you go, AGH! AGH! AGH! and bang your head on your desk.

With notably rare exceptions, the space shuttle had a virtually spotless safety record.

With notably rare exceptions, imperialism has been an particularly positive force for human development in the non-European world.
–Niall Ferguson circa 1998-2035

With notably rare exceptions, Sisyphus was successful in rolling the boulder up the hill every step of the way.

With notably rare exceptions, all animals are equal.

With notably rare exceptions, Andrea Mitchell has remained celibate since 1997.

With notably rare exceptions, Jonah Goldberg’s books have been non-partisan documents written with detail and care.

With notably rare exceptions, investing in stocks is a reliable way to save for retirement.

With notably rare exceptions, “the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, are such that they are best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.”

With notably rare exceptions, novels are reliable sources for effective economic models.

With notably rare exceptions, commenters on this post correctly quote the original article using the word “notably” instead of “notable”.

with notably rare exceptions, zsa zsa gabor was a married woman

With notably rare exceptions (e.g. any financial crisis), Robert Lucas’ DSGE model has demonstrated that “today’s competitive markets…are driven by an international version of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” that is unredeemably opaque.”

With notably rare exceptions (e.g. in the mind of a sensible person) invisible objects must by definition be simultaneously opaque.

With notably rare exceptions (e.g. China) Ayn Rand has demonstrated that “today’s competitive markets…are driven by an international version of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” that is unredeemably opaque.”

With notable exceptions, everyone’s a winner baby.

With notably rare exceptions, Republican Presidents do not lie to get us into wars that bankrupt our economy.

With notably rare exceptions, some of your base are still belong to you.

The notably rare exceptions are the exceptions that prove the rule.

In 1946, somebody could have said:

“Today’s Europe, whether we seek to recognise it or not, is driven by an international version of Neville Chamberlain’s “peace for our time”. With notable rare exceptions (1939-1945, for example), “peace for our time” has created relatively lasting peace.”

With notably rare exceptions (the dictionary, for example), anything which is invisible must by definition be simultaneously opaque.

With notably rare exceptions (financial crises, for example) Robert Lucas’ DSGE model demonstrates that “today’s competitive markets…are driven by an international version of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” that is unredeemably opaque.”

With notably rare exceptions (anytime he has spoken, for example) Ron Paul has always correctly predicted hyper-inflation.

With notable rare exceptions, that’s too big to be a space station.

With notably rare exceptions, I am aware of all internet traditions.

With notably rare exceptions, all your base are belong to us.

With notably rare exceptions, Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand are indistinguishable.

Fertile ground here. Aside from the incompatibility between invisibility and opaqueness, how can the latter quality be either redeemable or irredeemable? Greenspan’s locution accurately reflects that of his mentor.

With notably rare exceptions, all organisms are dead.

With notably rare exceptions no one ever went wrong by building a nuclear power plant near a seismic fault line. In Japan.

With notably rare exceptions, the Catholic Church protects children worldwide.

With notably rare exceptions, the War on Drugs has been a success.

with notably rare exceptions, the american government will always accept responsibility for causing thousands of its own people to die on 9/11, unless there’s some other group they can accuse and get away with !!?

With notably rare exceptions, the comments upthread are not at all funny

With notably rare exceptions (e.g., Dred Scott) the Supreme Court has always recognized the equal rights of black Americans.

With notably rare exceptions, Jeffrey MacDonald was a perfect husband and father.

With notably rare exceptions, rare exceptions are not exceptionally rare.

‎”With notably rare exceptions, Mr. Greenspan was a great Chairman of the Federal Reserve”.

With notably rare exceptions, Miss teen south carolina from 2007 is a very intelligent person.

With notably rare exceptions, I’m working hard today.

With notably rare exceptions, I always know what women want.

With notably rare exceptions, I’m the only one commenting in this blog.

With notably rare exceptions, classical physics is perfectly applicable.

WNRE (might as well), we can measure anything in the universe to unlimited precision.

With notably rare exceptions, all numbers can be expressed as fractions.

With notably rare exceptions, all sets are finite and all of logic is consistently accessible to our axioms.

(I wanted something for other science/math buffs here.)

(Note that greenspin muddied the difference between whether the exceptions themselves were notable, versus whether their rareness was notable?)

So that the statement is literally true, because the exceptions truly are rare, but when you hear it you go, AGH! AGH! AGH! and bang your head on your desk.

Yeah, I agree. The exceptions should be of a magnitude and/or quality that makes focusing on their rarity missing the point, if not downright deceptive.

With notably rare exceptions, Roman Catholic clergy adhere to high ethical standards in their interactions with parishioners.

I put a link in the comment before my previous, which is likely holding it up so I’ll just repeat it here w/o that reference and say to mods, just ignore that submission:
No surprise here. Greenspan is not “stupid” as simply imagined, but as an Aynal-retentive, crank Randian ideologue he might as well be an idiot. People like that are “religious” about some kick, they can’t learn from reality. Theirs is the “ideality-based community” (according to Google I coined that today) and not the reality-based community. All you’re going to get from the addled obfuscater is ever more greenspin. Also, interesting (as others noted) that if the “invisible hand” is so opaque, how do you know it’s doing its job (and as if what “job” is best, wasn’t debatable either!)

The essence of it for me is that the “exception” is insane to dismiss; it is a fatal flaw.

With notably rare exceptions (Luke Skywalker, for example), no one can penetrate the Death Star.

In farcical cases, the “exception” is the defining characteristic of the scenario.

With notable rare exceptions (my wife, for example), I am not in love with any women.

BTW, anyone know where I can get a T-shirt depicting the unredeemably opaque, invisible hand?

With notably rare exceptions, gravity is the force that propels earthy objects into space.
(I know that this violates one of the assertions that the event be rare–but in this I am also challenging the greenspan dogma that “free markets” a) existed b) accomplished what he said

With notably rare exceptions, I don’t know why people are hung up about the unredeemable opaque invisible hand.

Today’s competitive markets are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and opaque at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the International Free Markets is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are unredeemable opaque; we logically know that they are invisible because we can’t see them.

With notably rare exceptions, it all makes perfect sense.

With notably rare exception, Jeffrey Dahmer was the quintessential formal dinner host.

With notably rare exceptions, you can’t teach on old dog new tricks.

With notably rare exceptions, all submissions here are from US-Citizens (greetings from a Turkish Man working in Switzerland;-)

With notably rare exceptions (Harry Potter), the Avada Kedavra curse kills instantly.

With notably rare exceptions (small cell lung cancer, for example), decades of smoking did little damage to my fathers health.

With notably rare exceptions, India is going to win the cricket world cup.

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With notably rare exceptions (married from 1974) I have lived a bachelor’s life.

With notably rare exceptions, crocodiles are lethargic creatures.

With one notable rare exception, the Federal Reserve Bank is a Government entity.

With notably rare exceptions, war is not the answer.

All of us are lying in the gutter. With notably rare exceptions, none of us are looking at the stars.

With notably rare exceptions the HAL 9000 performed wonderfully

With rare exceptions, most mistakes are errors, and even most errors are mistakes–with rare exceptions. Errare humanum est, but not conversely, I hasten to add.

With rare exceptions, most commas are placed incorrectly.

With notably rare exceptions, mainstream academic economists never take kickbacks from the financial (or any other) industry.

http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2010/10/the-economists-reply-to-the-inside-job/

With notably rare exceptions, the zeppelin was a pleasant and safe way of air travel.

With notably absent exceptions, Mr. Greenspan has proven himself utterly unredeemable.

With notably rare exceptions, Big Bangs don’t create anything.

With notably rare exceptions, the invisible hand avoids leaning on the barbecue grill.

With notably rare exceptions, Molly Bloom was faithful.

With notably rare exceptions (#297), the comments on this thread intentionally abuse the phrase “with notably rare exceptions” as badly as Greenspan did, for comic effect.

With notably rare exceptions, contributions to a CT thread share no four-word phrase in common.

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By the way, Greenspan wasn’t being an idiot quite so much as he was channeling Breyten Breytenbach, specifically his Letter to America —

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

With notably rare exceptions, female teen pop stars grow into normal, stable adulthoods.

With notably rare exceptions, no thread has ever given so much to so many!

I think the key to the hilarity of the Greenspan original is partly the way one exception is all it takes (@273) to show that the theory is utterly false, but the most important is the bland satisfaction of the speaker–e.g. Greenspan, feeling that after decades of effort he had got his unredeemably opaque invisibility firmly in place around, say, 2002. Thus the closest is to imagine sometime in 1992–

Thanks to the collapse of Marxist ideas, history–with notably rare exceptions (the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait)–has come to an end.

But I love the grandeur of the physics example @273.

With notably rare exceptions, hunting with the Vice-President of the United States is a splendid way to spend a long weekend.

With notably rare exception, my view of the world, my ideology, was not right, it was not working.

With notably rare exceptions, there are no notably rare exceptions.

‘BTW, anyone know where I can get a T-shirt depicting the unredeemably opaque, invisible hand?’

Or better still, is anyone thinking of starting a religion based around this mysterious object, similar to the church of the Invisible Pink Unicorn?

With notably rare exceptions, it’s best to just drink the Kool-Aid.

With notably rare exceptions, these comments made me spray coffee all over my keyboard.

With notably rare exceptions, Adam and Eve followed instructions.

With notably rare exceptions Tonya Harding used to play fair

With notably rare exceptions US presidential candidates that receive a majority of the vote do become US presidents

With notably rare exceptions, Bill Buckner was the kind of player you always wanted out there when the game was on the line.

Games of chance are rigged in favor of the house, with notably fair exceptions.

With notable rare exceptions, a Libyan Air Force pilot is a safe job.

With notably rare exceptions, the 20th Century was a great one for Germany.

With notably rare exceptions, Monica Lewinsky always got her dresses dry cleaned.

With notably rare exceptions, there is no pornography on the Internet.

With notably rare exceptions, the residents of Arab-speaking countries prefer to live under the yoke of autocrats rather than enjoy fundamental freedoms.

With notably rare exceptions, I can’t believe this isn’t butter or floor wax.

#350; I am shocked – shocked – to hear that coalition airstrikes may have killed as many as 10 rebels. At least there have been no reports of civilian casualties, e.g. during bombing of ‘suburbs’, etc.

Tim@352: Which is a good “shorter” to Greenspan in the OP.

With notably rare exceptions, Jesus Christ’s disciples were loyal to the end.

When he scored, Alan Greenspan would dare
to respond to his date “Have no care.
Since most sperm never nab it
My wee monk needs no habit.
Exceptions are notably rare.”

With notably rare exceptions, condoms do not burst when used properly.

With notably rare exceptions, Bill Clinton preferred to smoke his cigars

Transoceanic has just entered the competition, officially:

Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we achieved an exemplary statistical safety record as measured by our total recordable incident rate and total potential severity rate, …

They haven’t digested the “standard form” yet but they have grasped the concept.

i think the meme is wrong… what is more noteworthy is Greenspans’ use of parentheses to delineate his ‘rare exceptions’. (2008, for example), should really read (The largest purely financial destruction of equity in history, for example). Its like he is trying to engineer mediocrity into his ()… 2008? Oh, that…? Right…. yeah
So I think the meme should be (*, for example), where * is a massive occurrence of an event which totally disproves your hypothesis or model, and you have tried to add as a side-note, thus attempting to paper over its significance.
e.g. Hitler: (The Holocaust, for example)
Jim Jones (The Kool-Aid, for example)
etc

“With notably rare exceptions, Alderaan has been a wonderful place to live, work, and raise children.”

“With notably rare exceptions, personal jewelry has been a beautiful aspect of culture in Middle Earth.”

“With notably rare exceptions, the large armies of the Persian Empire were able to reliably defeat smaller enemy forces numbering in the hundreds.”

“With notably rare exceptions, Enron represented a solid investment.”

Reality once again trumps what any of us could make up:

With a notably rare exceptions, it was the best year for safety in Transocean corporate history.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/04/usa-salazar-transocean-idUSWNA530020110404

With notably rare exceptions, Mrs Kennedy enjoyed the ride.

aa @365 beat all three of us.

With notably rare exceptions, Clint Eastwood always plays the part of a pussy.

with notably rare exceptions 36 thumb wrestles its way to the top

and by the way in muddy water even opaque hand may become invisible

and with notably rare exceptions women did not cause trouble in my life

With notably rare exceptions, ceci n’est pas un post.

With notably rare exceptions, the god of the Old Testament is loving and supportive.

With notably rare exceptions, the design of the Titanic was a triumph for Harland and Wolff’s maritime engineering, and the investment savvy of financier J.P. Morgan.

With notably rare exceptions, Pope Benedict was not a member of the Nazi Party.

With notably rare exceptions, the design of the Hindenburg (a giant bag full of flammable gas, covered with rocket fuel) was a typical example of the genius of Hitler’s scientists.

With notably rare exceptions, the solid rocket boosters on the Challenger Shuttle were a safe and cost-effective propellant for delivering spy satellites.

With notably rare exceptions, the Space Shuttle Challenger design was a safe and reliable means of returning astronauts safely to their families and loved ones.

With notably rare exceptions, the General Electric nuclear power plants at Fukushima have performed flawlessly and will continue to do so in a safe and cost-effective manner.

With notably rare exceptions, life on Earth consists of bacteria.