"which we will get through this"

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:17 AM -0700 6/7/09, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>On Jun 7, 2009, at 6:51 AM, Larry Horn wrote:
>
>>
>>A currently airing commercial for Liberty Mutual Insurance ...
>>
>>"Things at work are...changing, just a little bit right now. There's
>>been some layoffs, and I don't know far that's gonna go. Some of the
>>promises that we made, your mother and I, they have to be put on hold
>>for a while.  Now this can turn around, it can change.  But as of
>>right now, we kinda gotta tighten the belt.  Which we *will* get
>>through this."
>
>i assume that this is one of the ads Herb Stahlke posted about at the
>beginning of this thread.
>
It is indeed.  I just found it in my reader, from last Wednesday's
post by Herb.  Well, courtesy of TiVo, my posting does contain the
exact context of utterance.

LH

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