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"The Sense God gave a Good Goose"
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2009/12/28 - 11:28am
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My mother baffled her grandchildren with this phrase over the recent holidays. Does anyone know its origin?

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2010/01/16 - 12:54pm
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anniet said:

My mother baffled her grandchildren with this phrase over the recent holidays. Does anyone know its origin?

I do not...was searching similar "..God gave geese" (What I've always heard...same dif right?;-)
To do with flying in a Vee?...rotating lead as they tire? (to do it naturally/instinctively)?

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2010/01/16 - 12:58pm
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...and to add, ALWAYS used in the negative..NOT a compliment.
Preceded with "Doesn't have the..."

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2010/01/18 - 2:00pm
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I've heard or read variations of it before and find a few odd ones in Google Books. I think alliteration and the generally idiocy of geese is at the bottom of it, not any kind of fons et origo.

sense God gave a green goose
sense God gave a dead goose
sense God gave a wild goose

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