Phrases to go down in history

A question for any journalist colleagues who read this: Have you ever uttered a question you immediately regretted? Many of mine revolve around speaking to grieving or upset sources by phone from within the newsroom. "How are you doing?" is a typically tactless comment I occasionally, and regrettably, employ. Anyone have their own examples? Email me or post.

Let's hope though, that none of us ever utters something like this (taken from the frontline club's event listing page):

Inspired by Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop, Edward [Behr] went on to write his best-selling memoirs, which became the foreign correspondents’ primer, Anybody Here Been Raped And Speaks English? The title was inspired by a request from a BBC camera crew he allegedly overheard whilst covering fighting in the Congo in 1961.