as god as my witness....

[kpete]

[snappyturtle]

1. K&R The un-rec fairies are out tonight. nt

[timtom]

31. I got here late. 109 recs plus mine.

How could anyone unrec this amusing and accurate cartoon?

[Name removed]

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[Random Guy]

39. /tinfoil hat on

... or maybe the Air Force is too busy right now to be playing around with that sock puppet software we found out a few days ago.
/tinfoil hat off
:tinfoilhat:

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[SidDithers]

42. +145 now...

don't you feel silly complaining about unrecs in the very first reply?

Sid

[SidDithers]

58. Up to +207...

:rofl:

Sid

[SidDithers]

77. +311. Damn those unrec fairies!...nt

Sid

[SpiralHawk]

2. "I'll get Rush to convince the SuckerProles to pay for me-sneer" - UltraRich (R)

"Sneer -- you stupid suckerproles keep tuned to Fox - Bwaa ha ha ha ha - smirk" - UltraRich(R)

[msongs]

3. "they" get a huge break the next 2 years at least nt

[Lasher]

7. And the GOP House is defunding the IRS so that the wealthy can cheat with impunity.

They'll make sure the middle class has to pay up though.

[greytdemocrat]

4. Love it!!! n/t

[freshwest]

5. 'as god as my witness....'

Actually, I noticed them getting away with it.

Does that elevate me to divine status?

Recommended as a foil to sourpusses...

:yourock:

[bobbolink]

8. I thought you were commenting on the typo... or just plain mistake...

As God IS my witness.....

[freshwest]

9. Nope, just a straight cut and paste. I can read through typos and never correct them.

[TheCanadianLiberal]

6. I have yet to witness anything...

[freshwest]

11. That's because the border is in the way.

[drm604]

10. Isn't that wrong?

I think it should be "As god is my witness".

[Tesha]

43. "...I thought turkeys could fly!" (NT)

[hootinholler]

52. That's where *I* was going lol. n/t

[Enrique]

56. me too, lol n/t

[Tesha]

64. "Great minds..." and all that ;-) (NT)

[arcane1]

12. This phrase has always seemed grammatically odd...

It seems that "with God..." is more natural-sounding than "as God..."

I have no idea where the expression came from, but I hear it a lot.

Totally off topic :)

[pacalo]

15. I agree, arcane.

[daleanime]

21. "Gone with the Wind"

last lines of the movie.:popcorn:

[Lifelong Protester]

22. actually last line of first half of the film...

I can quote you most of it...the film that is. Give me any line, and I can tell you the scene.



(and the cartoon has the quote incorrectly stated: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.."

[ReggieVeggie]

28. "as god is..."

"As god as" seems like a huge faux pas for a national publication

[DiverDave]

69. Um, silly question

Did you work on the Sea Lion?

The reason I ask is there was a girl that could do the same thing (remember dialog)...
we grilled her, she was good.

[Lifelong Protester]

80. Nope, I'm one of those "Mad as Hell" Badgers! But you can

grill me, I think I'd pass muster...truly I do!

[AlbertCat]

36. last lines of the movie.

Uh... no.

It's the last lines before intermission.


Did you miss the whole last half of the film?????

[pacalo]

13. Self-deleted -- dupe.

[pacalo]

14. "...on the money I haven't already wired to my Swiss bank accounts."

[BlueJazz]

16. ........I thought Turkeys could fly.

[thanks_imjustlurking]

18. Bwaaaah!

:spray:

[Dennis Donovan]

32. Ha! That was my VERY first thought!

:rofl:

[Speed8098]

34. Loved that show

Of course being raised in that area, I was a bit biased. :)

Instead of WKRP there actually is a station called WKRC, or at least there was when I left many years ago.

[road2000]

65. WKRC is still here. n/t

[JHB]

76. WKRP Turkey Drop in 30 Seconds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST01bZJPuE0&NR=1

[thanks_imjustlurking]

17. Dear kpete, you are the heart and soul of DU.

:patriot:

[kpete]

40. as god as my witness

i do declare...
thanks and peace,
kpete

[joshcryer]

19. I don't get the guy on the right.

Some help?

I know this is a play on, I believe, Gone with the Wind, "I'll never go hungry again!" but I am not sure.

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. The "guy" on the right is a statue of sorts known as a "lawn jockey"

The figure was made out of metal, usually iron, and painted black to convey the impression of a black boy.
One would tie a horse's reins to the ring, back in the horse & buggy days.

You can still see them around the South occasionally but they are now covered with white paint, since even
the most die hard good ole boy knows to avoid the slave era stereotype of these figures.

And yes, it is a play on Scarlett's famous phrase.

[Raine]

23. There is a house a few blocks from me with one, it's painted green

I guess it's suppose to be a space alien or that little guy looking for the pot of gold.

[bettyellen]

37. many people have repained them becuse they were considered racist

[alphafemale]

25. There's also some sort of urban legend that it was based on an actual person.

A little slave child "Jocko" who froze to death while holding the lantern and horses while Washington and his men crossed the Delaware in that famous portrait. You know the one where no one said. "SITDOWN You Fucking Moron! This is a little boat!!! Whatareya posing for a picture??"

[hfojvt]

59. the legend I heard

was that they were used in the north to identify homes on the underground railroad.

[joshcryer]

26. Thanks. Thought that 'guy' was featured in the movie and I overlooked it.

[jumptheshadow]

35. It could also be an allusion to the "21 Club"

The lawn jockeys are also a famous institution at the 21 Club in midtown Manhattan, home of many exec power lunches and the $30 "21 Burger."

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:21Club.JPG

On edit: Tried to post an image but I don't have a server for it. Follow the properties link to see it.

[thanks_imjustlurking]

44. I never knew before what the 21 Club looked like.

Bizarre, to say the least!

[dixiegrrrrl]

45. Here, I loaded the pic for you. Looks like a convention of lawn jockeys.

[kpete]

61. that is an awesome pic

!!!!!!

[TygrBright]

81. Dizzying. Might one be able to make a case for it being racist as they are all melanin-deficient?

Excuse me, I have to go pick up the pieces of my head...

disorientedly,
Bright

[rpannier]

24. Rec 100

Hysterically funny and pathetically true

[alphafemale]

27. I can't believe that so many see Scarlett O'Hara as one of the strongest women in film.

She was a spoiled selfish overgrown child.

I could easily rattle through a couple hundred women in film worthy of being strong role models before I got to her

[ProfessorGAC]

29. I Can't Believe That You Could. . .

. . .could have sat through that dreadful waste of celluloid with enough attention to know a couple hundred female characters!

Actually, i agree with you about Scarlett. I had to read the book in high school and i do agree that she is FAR from a strong person. A survivor yes, but only by the skin of her teeth.

But, sheesh i think that movie is the most overrated film in U.S. film history. It's terribly overwrought, the performances are all just so "thespian", there is a minimum of 40 minutes of filler that adds nothing to the story, and much of the cinematography is dreadful. The Atlanta scene is all anybody remembers, and now everybody thinks the film is shot wonderfully. Mostly, the backgrounding is just plain bad.

So, i just thought it was funny that you could ID 200 stronger women than Scarlett, and i couldn't sit through the film long enough, (after the first time) to identify 200 characters, of any gender or species.

[alphafemale]

30. Not from THAT movie for gawdsakes.

I meant female movie roles in general.

[spooked911]

62. nevermind

I see it was already clarified

[Raine]

68. Awful movie, so over acted and hammed up

it's actually laughable and so many good interesting characters that were left out of it that were in the book. I never could stand Scarlett nothing but a bully who sells herself to men. Melanie was a much stronger person who never sold out her principles.

[AlbertCat]

78. so over acted and hammed up

Well, that beats NO acting or characters with just lots of car chases and explosions. Maybe you think it's over acted because no one acts in films today.

And it's not overacted. I cannot think of a single over-performed character. Under-performed... like the awful Leslie Howard... yes!


The 1st part with magnolias and moonlight is there to set up the losses in the War and Reconstruction sections... which are the best part of the film and still great movie making.

Then when they are rich again, and she marries Rhett, it does deteriorate into a 1938 soap opera.


But, Oh well... everyone can't like everything. Why there are even people who think Bach and Mozart are boring!

There's no accounting for taste!

[Raine]

82. No it is "hammed up". I read an book on the making of

it and the director actually directed the actors to "ham it up" that was the exact words and it shows. As you said though there is no accounting for taste you can't suit everyone.

[AlbertCat]

38. She was a spoiled selfish overgrown child.

That is her tragic flaw.... that she only overcomes at the end.

During the Depression, she represented struggling people (women) and has many strong qualities. Margaret Mitchell wanted to write about what her grandmother (who went thru the Civil War) called "people with gumption".... who do what it takes to survive.

Really.... you have to watch the whole film, y'know.... (I love it because, for its time, it is amazing film making. The details and tech are phenomenal for 1939)

And of course, all that "Southern Aristocracy" crap just gets some Southerners (not I) in a rosy vapor.


I can't believe Leslie Howard played Ashley! (Ashley should be a big Southern lug of a hunk)


But you are right in that there are better women role models out there.

[alphafemale]

41. oh Fiddle-dee-dee

I've see the movie many times. It is an amazing thing in many ways.

I think adjusted for ticket price it's still the top movie of all time.

[dixiegrrrrl]

46. Every time I have watched it, I wanted to slap her silly.

Altho, having lived down here in the South for so many years, I see a lot of Scarletts around, still.

[Divernan]

50. Scarlett believed her god was playing 3 dimensional chess

and would fix all her problems "tomorrow", as in, "I'll worry about that tomorrow."

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[mwb970]

47. I don't get it.

1. What does "as God as my witness" mean? It's ungrammatical, and appears to have no content or meaning. Is it a misprint of "as God is my witness", which I have heard numerous times? Is the cartoonist ignorant of the real phrase? Is this somehow the point of the cartoon or the OP?

2. If I pretend that the caption says "As God is my witness..." I still don't get the point of the cartoon. An ultra-rich woman stands next to a lawn jockey (presumably signifying her wealth?) and says she'll never pay taxes again. Um, is this funny, or insightful, or what? Does it refer to some recent event or quote I am unaware of?

3. Is the sky being yellow part of the "joke"? The tree branch? The hill? The cloud? Her dress?

I guess I'm really missing this one. Maybe I need more coffee.

:shrug:

[Divernan]

51. You have to watch the movie to understand the cartoon & responses.

[mwb970]

67. I see the problem now.

I don't know every line and scene from a movie released 72 years ago. Got it.

Actually, I saw the movie once in the late 70s or early 80s. I remember it, because a mild earthquake struck normally quiet Columbus, Ohio, during the film. (Only those in the balcony noticed it.)

[AlbertCat]

75. I don't know every line and scene from a movie released 72 years ago.

The problem is you are unaware of a SINGLE major iconic image from a major American film.

The problem is you live under a rock.

Yet I'll bet you know "I don't know nothin' about birthin' babies" line! :eyes:

[hay rick]

55. Youtube is your friend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixx66T-FPYM

[KoKo]

73. The cartoon was taken "out of context" as to what Scarlett was About...

I'm Okay with what KPete posted...because she's just an exceptional person and her cartoon has more to do with "today's interpretation of Scarlett O'Hara" than what Scarlett was really all about.

It was a funny cartoon and I got it...and would never trash KPete about it, because she wasn't trashing Scarlett with that cartoon...she was just posting a "funny" over what the "perception" of Scarlett is amongst folks who know nothing about the Novel..by Margaret Mitchell to understand where Margaret Mitchell was coming from in writing the book: "Gone With the Wind."

It's just a funny cartoon and it give a huge chuckle. The meanings of Mitchell's novel go deeper into the Culture of America and the South...and the SOUTH rules us to this day...if you think about it...that way.

[KoKo]

74. You'd have to have seen the Hollywood Move of "GWTW" to understand it....

Seriously. But if you read Mitchell's book...you might get a deeper view from a truly American, Dickensian Novel, of that period in America's history. If you "close your ears" you will not understand...but open your ears...and read and seek.

Not trashing you, though. Most of us don't have time to read or reflect because we are working too hard to keep our jobs in Bush America Continued....or we have "too much time on hands" after being Downsized or culled out of the Work Force.

There's no time left for reflection in America these days. Who has TIME? I'm working to keep myself going like the rest of us. It's just that I'm older and remember a time when I actually had "TIME" to read..because Workers Rights were enforced until Reagan...so I worked in Publishing..at that time..and had the time to read. And, I'm older ...and you guys younger don't have the time I had...and that's sad in itself... :-( Workers Rights gone...time with Family ...gone...Everybody works or tries to find work and the rest of the time is trying to forage for your family. It's what it is today. And, that's how "The System" since Reagan has Double Crossed us.... and that's why we are pawns to both Repugs and Rightward Democrats trying to steal the last crust of bread from us and our children and all of our futures.

[xchrom]

48. recommend

[Martin Eden]

53. Frank Zappa had a good idea what to do about the lady in that cartoon:

I'll take a drive to Beverly Hills
Just before dawn
An' knock the little jockeys
Off the rich people's lawn
An' before they get up
I'll be gone, I'll be gone
Before they get up
I'll be knocking the jockeys off the lawn

[thatgemguy]

60. Down the dew... n/t

[WillyT]

54. K & R !!!

:kick:

[Zorra]

57. "I do decleah, I believe I've got the vapors!" Love it. nt

[hansberrym]

63. Seriously, seriously? We are all lawn jockeys now.

"Economic Decision-Making Is an Activity Subject to Congress’s Commerce Clause Power"

[road2000]

66. "We are all lawn jockeys now."

As God is my witness, I have to love you for that!

[JHB]

70. No turkeys were harmed in the posting of this message.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST01bZJPuE0&NR=1

[Solly Mack]

71. K&R

[Corruption Winz]

79. The only inaccurate portion of this photo....

Is that the ultra-rich figure isn't standing on a small orphan.