[Ads-l] "goes I"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jun 16 11:02:08 UTC 2016


Very highly educated CNN interviewee, recalling that he and his family
had recently been at the spot of the alligator attack in Orlando:

"It all kind of rang home: 'But for the grace of God goes I.'"

Not only is it ungrammatical - it don't even make no sense!

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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