h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Who could have said this.

I, ******, do shholemnly shhhwear (hic) phhat I swill schupport and def-end ...

Are there klaxons?

Dubya? Churchill? Groucho Marx?

WC Fields?

closeish toybox

gracie fields

No

Closeish? Ronald Reagan? Sarah or Michael Palin?

Some USA politician?

getting closer

Now the words are right but incomplete Why

I thought that was replacing the name: "I, Groucho Marx, do shholemnly shhhwear", etc.

So the stars replace something else? Like, the profession of the guy? (Is it a man who said this?)

yes the man

And when you say, who *could* have said this -- he didn't actually say it?

Karl Marx (the of the marxs brothers)

Yes if the words were ths same at that time (the proncunciation is an indication not actual)

Boris Yeltsin........

The mad conductor!!!



GT

It's the start of the oath that American politicians have to say, apart from the president, who says something different (can't remember what), unless they've said it before, in which case they say "affirm" instead of "swear".

affirm or swear hygienicdispenser

+3 the oath

Lots more yet

george w bush

when he was an alky

Part of that was close ... not bush +1

washington

cos he had wooden teeth