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Not TG-related (AFAIK), but I figured I'd take the chance that one of my American boom-generation contemporaries might recall the answer to this one.
Disney's version of Davy Crockett had a catchphrase, "be sure you're right, and then go ahead". (The real David Crockett said almost the same thing -- "Always be sure you're right -- then go ahead" -- but the meter didn't lend itself quite as well to being sung. If you use the link, feel free to sign off after the first chorus.)
Anyway, it suddenly came into my mind a couple of nights ago that someone -- not sure whether it was a television show, a book or a film -- made the phrase the key to (I think) an important treasure hunt scene: "right, and then go ahead". I think it was a teenage girl who came up with the clue. Anyone have an idea who or where?
Eric
The problem with Google is,
it gives priority to what is popular(or trending) and/or sponsored, if it is not what everyone else is looking for you are NOT going to find it, not easily anyway.
>i< ..:::
your post is listed on the google search engine
Sometimes it is how you phrase the search whether it will give the right return. I did two quick ones and it seems the search engine is loaded with stories of treasure and the quotes you mentioned.
If you have the time you might see if any of these are what you are looking for.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22be+sure+you%27re+right%2C...
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22be+sure+you%27re+right%2C...
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
Wording Search queries,
is a bit of an art form.
>i< ..:::
Thanks for the Effort...
Checked all 63 with no luck -- though the 1927 newspaper comic that used the phrase indicates that Disney wasn't the first to parse it that way. It's characterized there as a "well-worn maxim", with no reference to Crockett. (Newspapers.com wouldn't let me see that page without signing up, but there's enough info that I'm satisfied that's not it.)
Eric
Just a Hunch
Just a hunch, but would the film have been Labyrinth? If it was a treasure, the treasure was teenage girl's baby brother. The Goblin King was the late David Bowie.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
I Like the Guess...
...but I never saw it, and didn't read the novelization.
Eric
I found the quote at: https:
I found the quote at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/147674.David_Crockett
just scroll down a bit.
Hugs,
Erin of Wis <3
As You Can See...
...several different wordings are shown there. One Google site described the one I used ("Always be sure...") as the one Crockett ultimately settled on.
Actually, I kind of like "Be always sure you're right, then go ahead" -- it's iambic pentameter. Makes a good last line for a sonnet...
Eric