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October 17, 2024
Food/DrinkGovernment/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“Glutenny is one of the Seven Breadly Sins”

"Gluttony" shouldn't be confused with the portmanteau word "gluteny" or "glutenny" (gluten + gluttony), but there are jokes. "Gluteny is one of the 7 deadly…

October 17, 2024
Food/DrinkGovernment/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“Gluteny is one of the Seven Breadly Sins”

"Gluttony" shouldn't be confused with the portmanteau word "gluteny" or "glutenny" (gluten + gluttony), but there are jokes. "Gluteny is one of the 7 deadly…

July 11, 2004
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“Go fight city hall” (proverb)

"Go fight city hall" or "You can't fight city hall" means to take on the powerful -- usually, a thankless and a futile task. "City hall" means the city…

November 2, 2010
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”

"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" is often incorrectly credited to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), but Emerson never wrote it.…

October 26, 2022
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“Go vote! If dead people can do it, so can you!”

"Go vote! If dead people can do it, so can you!" is a jocular political saying, referring to the fraud of dead people "voting." The saying encourages voting to cancel out the…

November 26, 2024
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“God created man and woman, Democrats created the rest”

"God created man and woman. Democrats created all the other genders" is a saying that has been printed on many images. "GOD CREATED MAN AND WOMAN - DEMOCRATS CREATED THESE…

November 26, 2024
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“God created man and woman. Democrats created all the other genders”

"God created man and woman. Democrats created all the other genders" is a saying that has been printed on many images. "GOD CREATED MAN AND WOMAN - DEMOCRATS CREATED THESE…

November 26, 2024
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“God created man. Then God created woman. Then Democrats created all the other genders”

"God created man and woman. Democrats created all the other genders" is a saying that has been printed on many images. "GOD CREATED MAN AND WOMAN - DEMOCRATS CREATED THESE…

June 11, 2023
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“God didn’t call you to a playground, but a battleground”

"God didn't call you to a playground, but a battleground" is a saying that has been printed on many images. "God didn’t call you to a playground but a battleground.…

May 11, 2012
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“God helps those whom God has helped”

"God helps those who help themselves" is an old proverb (not in the Bible, as many assume) that means that God rewards people who help themselves by their hard labors. "God helps…

November 2, 2022
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“God is a frequency that exists within you. Tune in”

"God is a frequency. Stay tuned" is a saying that has been printed on many images. "God is a frequency. Stay tuned.~Alan Cohen" was posted on Twitter by Surendra Jain on April…

November 2, 2022
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“God is a frequency. Stay tuned”

"God is a frequency. Stay tuned" is a saying that has been printed on many images. "God is a frequency. Stay tuned.~Alan Cohen" was posted on Twitter by Surendra Jain on April…

June 30, 2011
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve”

"God made/created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" has been an anti-gay slogan since at least 1977. The saying has been on T-shirts and bumper stickers. “It’s Christmas Eve, not…

July 6, 2013
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“God made police so firefighters would have heroes”

"God made police/cops so firefighters would have heroes" is a saying that has been printed on a popular T-shirt. The saying has been cited in print since at least 2005. The T-shirt is…

October 18, 2021
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“God. Guns. Guts. Glory”

"Born, raised and protected by God, guns, guts & glory" is a saying that has been printed on many images. "god, guns, guts and glory .sig snipped" was posted on the…

December 2, 2009
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“Going Galt” or “Going John Galt” (‘Go Galt” or “Go John Galt”)

John Galt is a character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged (1957). The term "Going (John) Galt" or "Go (John) Galt" refers to dropping out of an increasingly socialistic…

December 5, 2015
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian; sitting in a garage doesn’t make you a car”

WIlliam Ashley "Billy Sunday (1862-1935) was a baseball player who became a popular American evangelist in the early 1900s. He said at least as early as 1905: "Going to church won't…

October 19, 2024
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion”

"Going to war without France is like going (deer) hunting without an accordion" is a saying that has been printed on many images. Of course, an accordion is not useful for hunting.…

April 15, 2015
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“Golf is like taxes” (joke)

"Golf is like taxes. You drive hard to make the green, then end up in the hole" is a jocular saying that has been printed on wall signs. The saying has been cited in print since at least…

April 8, 2020
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“Gonna ask my momma if that offer to slap me into next year is still on the table”

The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic made 2020 a difficult year for many people. "Bruh i need my momma to slap me into next year i cant deal" was posted on Twitter by razzle_dazzle876 on…

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