I'll tell you some

[Casiopea]

Originally Posted by Englishlanguage

... but it's not that easy for me to hear it and I don't always notice it.

Oh, but now that you know you will definitely start to hear it more and more.

I'll tell ya some'm, Englishlanguage, you've good ears!

[Englishlanguage]

Originally Posted by Casiopea

Oh, but now that you know you will definitely start to hear it more and more.

I'll tell ya some'm, Englishlanguage, you've good ears!

Thank you...
but I'll ask ya some'm now....and I'm afraid it'll contradict what you've just said about my ears
At 0:33 he seems to be saying ...and folks...if they ask me...what's the like to be president?(or perhaps "what's alike", I can't understand).
Personally I've never heard such an expression (what's the like to be president?) and I can't find it on dictionaries nor on any webpage on the net.
What is he actually saying?

[engee30]

Originally Posted by Englishlanguage

Thank you...
but I'll ask ya some'm now....and I'm afraid it'll contradict what you've just said about my ears
At 0:33 he seems to be saying ...and folks...if they ask me...what's the like to be president?(or perhaps "what's alike", I can't understand).
Personally I've never heard such an expression (what's the like to be president?) and I can't find it on dictionaries nor on any webpage on the net.
What is he actually saying?

What's it like to be...

[Englishlanguage]

Originally Posted by Casiopea

I'll tell ya some'm, Englishlanguage, you've good ears!

Originally Posted by engee30

What's it like to be...

Well, I definitely did contradict what Casiopea had said about my ears....
It was such a simple expression...
The funny thing is that it's so easy to understand what he says once you have told me...but it's not that easy before...

[Delmobile]

As long as this video is still a hot topic - I will go ahead and pose my question. I am a native speaker AND I live in the south, and I cannot for the life of me make out what it is he says at 2:30. "Some folks say I'm not the brightest bulb in the..." in the what? "Chandelier" is how I've heard the expression, but he almost sounds like he's trying to say "abbatoir." Which is funny, but in a different way.

I await enlightenment, ha-ha.

[Englishlanguage]

Originally Posted by Delmobile

As long as this video is still a hot topic - I will go ahead and pose my question. I am a native speaker AND I live in the south, and I cannot for the life of me make out what it is he says at 2:30. "Some folks say I'm not the brightest bulb in the..." in the what? "Chandelier" is how I've heard the expression, but he almost sounds like he's trying to say "abbatoir." Which is funny, but in a different way.

I await enlightenment, ha-ha.

It makes me feel better to know that understanding what he says is a problem for native speakers too.
I can't help you about what he says, of course...

Did you manage to make out what he says after that?
I never claimed to be the.... overEinstein? or what?

[Delmobile]

To me that part sounded like "Dilbert Einstein," which is a joke: combination of "Dilbert," the comic strip about the engineer, and Albert Einstein.

I think that this comedian was playing to a Bush-friendly audience and thus was careful to keep the humor confined to what is known as a "good-natured ribbing." For instance, that part about the "good old-fashioned Texas ass-whuppin'" portrays Bush as perhaps not the most skilled diplomat or foreign policy maker, but nonetheless the guy who the audience can trust to defend the country.

I don't mean to wander off topic. But we do seem to be delving into every nuance of the video. Or som'n like 'at.

[Englishlanguage]

You're right...I can understand it now...
I noticed that if I don't know a name or the meaning of a word I can't make it out while he's talking. I can't even fix it in my mind. It's just as if I had a blank in my mind.

[Casiopea]

Originally Posted by Delmobile

As long as this video is still a hot topic - I will go ahead and pose my question. I am a native speaker AND I live in the south, and I cannot for the life of me make out what it is he says at 2:30. "Some folks say I'm not the brightest bulb in the..." in the what?

"...in the knife drawer." It's a mixed metaphor:

Not the brightest bulb on the tree.
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

There was also this reverse metaphor, "The tree don't fall far from the nut."

[Delmobile]

thank you, Casiopea. I guess my ears are a few sandwiches short of a sack of hammers :)