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Huevos Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Joan of Arc

Can anyone post some light on the expression:
"People laughed at Joan of Arc, but she built it anyway."
  

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Context? It sounds like it was spoken by someone not too bright, who is associating Joan of Arc with Noah.

— BarbaraPA

  • Context?
  • It sounds like it was spoken by someone not too bright, who is associating Joan of Arc with Noah.
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Context?

It sounds like it was spoken by someone not too bright, who is associating Joan of Arc with Noah.
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Hi, GG. It's in a text I am proofing. I just assumed it was a standard US idiom. I've done a http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2B%22joan+of+arc%22+%2B%22built+it+anyway%22&start=0&sa=N and it returned many pages saying it is a famous
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Hmm! I have just read that: bible literacy is such that 12% of American people believe "Joan of Arc" was married to Noah.
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I don't know if that's really true, but it wouldn't surprise me. I hadn't heard the expression before, though. Gracie was a bit before my time.
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Huevos"People laughed at Joan of Arc, but she built it anyway."
LOL!!! A typical Gracie line! Her humor was based on pretending to be completely clueless. Here she confuses one historical figure with another (Joan of Arc / Noah), believing that Arc is the ark that Noah built.
Another favorite of mine (which I may be slightly misquoting):
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I hadn't heard of her until today. I've been looking at youtube.com. One sketch she is saying her niece has 3 feet because her brother sent a letter saying she had grown another foot.
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