He would also slip in spoof commercials and sponsor's announcements for " Dobbiroids ", the wonder horse rejuvenator, or " Dobbimist " horse deodorant ( a cure for UFO: under-fetlock odour ), or " Dobbitex " horse cummerbunds-he would claim that he'd been " got at ": paid money to plug the product, because he claimed to be only paid a pittance as a senior BBC announcer, " I want things, I need things, things the other radio announcers have got!

Keitel testified that he knew many of Hitler's orders were illegal ( for instance, he described the Night and Fog Decree as " the worst of all " the orders he'd been given ) but claimed he was merely following orders in conformity to " the leader principle " ( Führerprinzip ).

He recorded All That May Do My Rhyme for the Trance Syndicate label, owned by the Butthole Surfers's King Coffey, who claimed Erickson told him it was the first time he'd ever been given a royalty check for his music.

" This came as a surprise to the assembled mafiosi, since Maranzano had previously claimed he'd wanted to end boss rule.

Thornley claimed that, during his initial two-year sojourn in New Orleans, he'd had numerous meetings with two mysterious middle-aged men named " Gary Kirstein " and " Slim Brooks ".

Arthur C. Clarke gave this analogy ( from a statement received by Reuters ): " If the scale on your grocer's weighing machine began at 1 instead of 0, would you be happy when he claimed he'd sold you 10 kg of tea?

This was potentially critical evidence ; Simpson claimed that he'd cut himself on the night of the murders, but hadn't been to his ex-wife's house in a week.

In a radio interview, Mitchum claimed ( despite the difficult production ) Lean was one of the best directors he'd worked with.

In an interview with Ultimate-Guitar. com in March 2007, he claimed that he wanted Megadeth to move towards a more aggressive sound and that he'd rather have been playing straight pop music than the pop-influenced metal Megadeth was playing at the time.

He claimed that he'd always wanted to open up the regime, but few East Germans believed him.

Over the years, he'd claimed the ban on former dictators making a bid for the presidency had been written specifically to prevent him from standing.

Ory Dobbins repeated that he'd seen the women try to jump off the train, but Leibowitz showed photos proving Dobbins could not have seen everything he claimed.

Despite inker Murphy Anderson, and penciller Carmine Infantino stating that Schwartz never acknowledged any relationship to Plastic Man, it's commonly claimed that he said that if he had known that DC owned the name " Plastic Man " ( acquired in 1956 along with other Quality Comics properties ), he'd never have chosen Elongated Man as the name for his own character ..

He claimed that he got lost during a combat mission and landed there by mistake, although there were suspicions that he'd defected.

Though eccentric and childlike, Waddell was not illiterate ( as some sources have claimed ), although Ken Burns baseball documentary claimed he lost track of how many women he'd married.

In November 2001 he left Canada, several months after obtaining a replacement passport for one he'd received two years earlier which he claimed to have lost.

The seagull died, and some claimed that Winfield hit the bird on purpose, which prompted Yankees manager Billy Martin to state " They wouldn't say that if they'd seen the throws he'd been making all year.

He received the Ritterkreuz ( Knights Cross ) from Hitler's hands ( he later claimed Hitler told him " if I had a son, I wish he'd resemble you ").

The reporter claimed " what Tony failed to realise was that he effectively held a lottery ticket which would mean he'd carry on winning every year.

Slater claimed he had no choice, but Del, knowing Slater told him he'd never regretted making an arrest in his life.

( Considine later said it was the most famous thing he'd ever written in his three decades as a critic, while Hackett claimed the review actually helped sales of the album.

The picture had been taken in 1989, only months after Tarkanian claimed he'd warned his players to stay away from Perry.

He ended up starring in a significant portion of the Justice League Task Force comic ( issues # 0 and 16-37 ), alongside regulars the Ray and Gypsy ; he'd develop a strong relationship with Ray and save Gypsy's life, though he later claimed he'd almost let her die out of fear of dying himself and thought it would " look bad " if he didn't save her.

Historians note that Washington, " advised, networked, cut deals, made threats, pressured, punished enemies, rewarded friends, greased palms, manipulated the media, signed autographs, read minds with the skill of a master psychologist, strategized, raised money, always knew where the camera was pointing, traveled with an entourage, waved the flag with patriotic speeches, and claimed to have no interest in partisan politics.

On returning to his home, he claimed he had not seen any Aboriginal peoples, and advised that the country was a vast and empty land which settlers could come and claim for themselves.

The legate Pelagius of Albano, however, claimed the command ; and insisting on the advance from Damietta, in spite of John's warnings, he refused to accept the favourable terms of the sultan, as the king advised, until it was too late.

Curry claimed that he asked Leonard and Trainer for advice concerning his future, and they advised him to stay at welterweight and not to move up in weight to fight junior middleweight champion Mike McCallum or middleweight champion Hagler.

SAIC had claimed that it had already acquired Intellectual Property Rights in some Rover product for £ 67million in the autumn of 2004, including the Rover 25, the Rover 75 and the Rover Powertrain K-series engine, but the Administrators advised that there was still interest in saving some other parts of the company, including MG, and 13 May 2005 was set as the deadline for bids from potential investors.

It is claimed by Tacitus that Agrippina exercised some erotic power over her son and that Acte advised Nero to resist this power, out of fear for her own safety and with Seneca's encouragement ; she warned Nero of the potential political repercussions with the military if incest with his mother were to become public.

Kelly was insured for this damage but did not claim on that insurance after being advised by the fees office that a reasonable amount could be claimed under the allowances system.

At a hearing of the PAC on 9 November 2011 the Secretary General Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport claimed that the Attorney General had reversed his 2004 advice and that the Department of Finance and the Revenue Commissioners had also advised CSID to take the VAT case.

She said that Hugh and Cone advised her to sign the agreement for tax reasons, and falsely claimed that Culverhouse was on the brink of bankruptcy.

He claimed to have seen a white light and when he told his attending physician, Dr. William Silkworth about his experience, he was advised not to discount it.

When Jarl grew up and began to handle weapons and to use hawks, hounds, and horses, Rígr reappeared, claimed him as his son, gave him his own name of Rígr, made him his heir, taught him runes, and advised him to seek lordship.

Back in Dieppe, Pinzón left Cousin in a dispute, and is claimed to have left for Spain from where he advised Columbus on his westward sail.

But when he claimed his prize, his old enemy, patih Pringgalaya, advised the king against it.

Despite widespread opposition against that deal, the known existence of at least four other serious and much less controversial contenders to buy the Radiomédia stations, and numerous allegations to the effect that Corus Entertainment's offer was actually part of a larger plan to prevent any meaningful competition to its new FM talk format ( as Corus seemed to try to weaken and steal listeners from CKAC and not from the increasingly popular CBF-FM, and its sales representatives claimed to clients that they would be better advised to buy advertising at CHMP-FM and not CKAC as they pretended the latter was going to close shortly no matter what would happen ), the deal was approved in January 2005 by the CRTC in the midst of strong rumours that Astral Media would close CKAC if the deal was not approved.

One new advertiser, Focus on the Family, aired a commercial featuring 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother that elicited criticism from some women's groups who demanded CBS cancel the ad because they claimed it would be divisive, under the impression that it would mention Tebow's mother was advised, for health issues, to abort her son Tim, but she chose to give birth to him.

In doing so, he claimed to be following the advice of the Chief Justice, Sir Timoci Tuivaga, but he refused to abrogate the constitution, which Tuivaga had also advised.

While Criminon claimed that this manual was " outdated ", the replacement manual still advised that if inmates seemed angry, it may be because " some of them are on psychiatric drugs and have strange side effects as a result.

At that time, the Omaha Police had claimed that it had been destroyed ; an FBI memo released after a Freedom of Information Act request demonstrates that the FBI's COINTELPRO program advised the Omaha authorities to suppress the tape.