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"Is that really your dad?"

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Hired Hand:
"I think . . . we forgot the pheasant."

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For The Gipper


Wednesday, July 13, 2011

OMG!


British Admiral John Fisher, sometime First Sea Lord, published his memoirs in 1919. In them, he quotes the following line from a letter he had written in 1917: "I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)—Shower it on the Admiralty!"

More HERE. See also, the Oxford English Dictionary.

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