Why does Bob Dole use Bob Dole in everyone of Bob Dole's statements?
95027
Because he is Bob Dole.\n\nAnd it is a parady of something that he did a long time ago that caught on.  He doesn't do that in real life.
562467
they do that just to make sure the do not miss anything others may overlook; you know, to be overly cautious. We are talking about Grissom here. He is VERY diligent when it comes to making sure nothing is left behind and that they got all their evidence. He is a real stickler for that.
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Eric Partridge lists it in his 'Dictionary of Slang', 1937. He gives it the meaning 'all will be well', which is not quite how it is used now. Partridge states it as dating from circa 1890, although he presents no evidence for that. Also he suggests that it may be derived from the phrase 'all is bob', which meant 'all is well'.\n\nAnother interpretation is that it derives from the supposed nepotism of Lord Salisbury. Piers Brendon, in Eminent Edwardians, 1979, writes:\n\n"... in 1887, Balfour was unexpectedly promoted to the vital front line post of Chief Secretary for Ireland by his uncle Robert, Lord Salisbury."\n\nVarious authors have surmised that having an uncle Bob who was Prime Minister became synonymous with having a passport to an easy life.
310542
To talk about things in print (books, articles, etc) you always use the present tense because the book or article will always say that. If you're quoting something he actually said out loud, use the past tense.
383625
My guess is that it has been used extensively by many. It is commonly an introduction to something else the speaker wants to say. For instance: "I have traveled far and wide, still, human nature is pretty much the same wherever I go."\n\nA favorite travel quotation: "A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."\n--George Moore, The Brook Kerith (1916)
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Cough, cough, cough, cough, hack, hack, hack, cough, cough, Hmm i don't cough, cough, cough, hack, know.\n\nDo cough , cough , cough, you?\n\nIs it because he's the devil and an evil, mean spirited, republican oil monger, war monger, tree hater, ocean hater, fish hater, seal hater, air, water and soil hater who wants to kill his own kids in the public square?\n\nMy, dat was a easey won butt us libals, we be dat are smeart wones.
233296
Various people have used this quote.  It is generally attributed to either Robert Kennedy or Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
909868
He says he did it so it wouldn't effect the elections. Hey every liar has a reason of one or the other. You either have the balls to tell the truth, or you lie. How can you justify it? He started his flip flopping from the very start. He tells you one thing one week then later on it's the opposite. Like trying to sell the American voter on the idea that the reason we are in Iraq is because of the oil. That is not what he was saying before. The President cares about one person......George.
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Well, it would be redundant if used by someone who is always honest.\n\nTherefore, when used at all, it suggests that the speaker is not always perfectly honest. In practice, it is used when communicating either an uncomfortable truth or a downright lie.\n\nAs for the 'perfectly' - it again suggests that it is possible to be imperfectly honest (i.e. honest, but not completely honest).\n\nAre there really levels of honesty or are we either honest or not?  I tend not to trust anyone who uses this, and I certainly regard with suspicion whatever is said after this phrase!
1043009
Same reason everyone else does.
650896
"He was just involved in an accident, no one knows what happened"\n\nLMAO, what a delusional statement. He was drinking, he drove off a bridge, and he left poor Mary Jo there to die because he is a chickensh*t piece of garbage. \n\nThis man regularly attempts to undermine the laws and traditions of this land. He holds so much power over the democratic party that he has destroyed it. And how does he get there? Oh right, he's rich and he's a Kennedy.
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Well, here's one way to think of it. When Bob is at work, he is Bob the employee. When he goes home, he is Bob the father and husband. When he goes bowling, he is Bob the bowler. When he has a few too many brewskis at the bowling alley and wraps his car around a tree, he is Bob the DUI. But they're all the same Bob. \n\nAnd I will pray to whichever one is relevant at the time.
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Now Dado don't take the p??s, I spoke to George at the white House and he is the most intelligent one there What did you say? Now Dado do be serious you can't expect me to reveal the conversation, he is the president of the USA. You will tell my wife about the tall blond I met at the hotel last week!. Noooooooooooooooo! please don't, you win, OK, every word. No don't even mention my wife, OK here goes\n\nPhone:Ring, Ring, Ring\nRedmonk: , ''Hi, I would like to speak to George please''? \nOperator: ''Wait one moment please''\n\nfew moments later,\n\nGeorge Bush: ''oow, oow oowoow oo, screech screech oow oow, oow scratch scratch etc etc and etc\n\nDado, these were words of great meaning and senti(mental)ality from a guy who looks like a monkey acts like one and thinks\n everybody else is a monkey apart from himself. Please don't tell the wife.\n\nATB Red
880367
Yes, strictly speaking it should be "I do" or just "I", but it just sounds so pretentious. It's not the way we speak in everyday converstaion.
1102585
You do NOT translate the "does" into Latin in that phrase.  "Does" is a meaningless element in this English sentence.  If this were Early Modern English you would say, "What killeth me not maketh me stronger".  In Modern English we cannot move the main verb like that, so we insert a meaningless "does" in there so that we can move something into that sentence position.
1013261
Same reason that all politicians run their mouths, to make political points...it don't always work...just ask George Bush...
571841
Cute question.  I'm almost tempted not to try and answer but only agree that you are right, it is just a wrong form of speech.  The truth is, though, we hear it, and it does make sense.  I think it makes sense when the "now" is used not as a reference in time but a reference in a sequence of arguments or acts, a reference in space if you want.  You'll present arguments, and before your conclusion, derived from those arguments, you'll say "now then."  Or you'll do some things like prepare various steps in a recipe, then before you move on, you say "now then."  Is this just more obtuse?