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Fritz Walter

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12. Reminds me of the "turtle on a fence post" metaphor
Wed Aug 4, 2021, 07:02 PM
Aug 2021
As to exactly what defines a “post turtle,” that varies a bit from telling to telling:

“Well, you know that turtle didn’t get up there by himself. Someone’s got to have put him up there. And if there’s one thing you know, it’s sooner or later that turtle’s going to fall.” (Associated Press, August 2008)

“You know he didn’t get up there by himself, and he sure as heck doesn’t belong up there, he doesn’t know what to do up there and you just wonder what kind of an idiot put him up there in the first place.” (Monterey County Herald, July 2008)

“It sure doesn’t belong there, it didn’t get there by itself and now that it’s there it doesn’t know what to do.”
(Buffalo News, April 2001)

“Ya’ know he didn’t get there by himself, he don’t belong there, he can’t get anything done while he’s up there, and you just want to help take the poor thang down.” (Chattanooga Times Free Press, March 2001)

Source: Snopes.com

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