As God is my witness...[dropping turkeys]

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’ve made the thread title just a bit more descriptive.

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Now can we get back to the, as Venus would put it, jive turkeys who insist this airdrop is a fun idea and keep reviving it?

How BORED are the people in this town? Can someone pay to get them more broadband access so they can enjoy cat videos and porn like normal God-fearing Americans?

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Oh the humanity!

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What I’d really like to know is why this Family Feud guy takes a turkey to the beach. :confused:

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Would have been kinda nice if the “is” part of the title had been corrected…

Maybe Bill Clinton is/was involved?

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At the risk of continuing the hijack, what’s incorrect about it? Gordon Jump/Mr. Carlson did say, “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”

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I thought sure “as” is the right word choice, not “is”.

Then again, I could be a fowl of historical TV correctness…which might or might not agree with grammatical correctness…which might or might not agree with Biblical/mod correctness.

Though that could be turkey jerky from the sidelines correcting from me.

PS. I bet these Turkey drops went better than the guy that decided to sky dive with a cat…

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“With God as my witness” sounds fine to my ears. “As God as my witness” just sounds awkward. “As God” demands a verb.

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nm

PS. I see the subtle as/with distinction Cochrane

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This is how I would say it.

I did check before posting. According to IMDb, the quote is, ‘As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly’

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Google’s ruling on the most common usage:

“As God is my witness”
About 237,000 results

“As God as my witness”
About 89,600 results

“With God as my witness”
About 39,500 results

The big guy had it right.

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Don’t you just love the way Straight Dope threads evolve?

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Given the mods are on my ass?

Not really.

PS…Remember when that crazy thing a few years back when the guy’s kid was “accidentally” aloft in the “ufo” balloon?..which anybody with science degree and a modicum of sense knew was a crock of shit…

And I responded “as God as my witness I thought Falcon could fly”

Good times

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::bump::

Well they can fly…at least a little bit

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Am I the only person on this board who has heard the “As God is my witness” used in conversation?

I was raised near Cincinnati - the Hill Folks used it quite often.

It means, roughly “this time I really AM telling the truth”.

When I die, the world will lose the last remaining connection to a time and mindset no longer seen…

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No. We all have. That’s why we think the WKRP quote is funny.

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I’d hate to be the person who has to make the insurance claim.

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It was a rental, if they paid for rental insurance (I know, I know) they just walked away from it.

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Still, doesn’t someone at the rental company have to put in a claim for the damage?

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How about ‘As God is my waitress’?