# Where does this saying come from?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 3, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-this-saying-come-from/753801 "2016-05-03T19:09:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-this-saying-come-from/753801/1 "2016-05-03T19:09:57Z")

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In an episode of CSI Vegas, Sara Sidle is burying the ashes of a gorilla that was brutally killed for parts such as its head and skin.  
She says “For everyone that parts one stands above ground.”

Is this a song lyric?  
If not, where does it come from?

Also what does it mean?

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**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-this-saying-come-from/753801/2 "2016-05-03T20:10:59Z")

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It looks like it should be more like:

“For every one that parts, one stands above ground” - meaning that the deceased will not be forgotten by the living? Does that make sense?

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**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-this-saying-come-from/753801/3 "2016-05-03T21:26:42Z")

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I think it’s something close to that.

For everyone (two beings) that parts (parts forever because one has died), one stands above ground (still alive and remembering the other)

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**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-this-saying-come-from/753801/4 "2016-05-04T13:41:58Z")

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> [@glee](#):
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> In an episode of CSI Vegas, Sara Sidle is burying the ashes of a gorilla that was brutally killed for parts such as its head and skin.  
> She says “For everyone that parts one stands above ground.”
> 
> Is this a song lyric?  
> If not, where does it come from?
> 
> Also what does it mean?

It seems like it was black humour, she is seriously saying it, but they stuck to the idea of forming a pun or double entendre. The gorilla had (de)parted…

It seems the real meaning is “we will find the live one(s) then !”  
and it seemed to be fitting words for a funeral in some circumstances, positivity in the face of death