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  • Oh, you can have the last strawberry.

  • Oh thank you!

  • OVER MY DEAD BODY...

  • First, I would still eat that.

  • And two, why do people even say

  • "Over my dead body"?

  • Whenever someone says that, it's like, "Yeah dude, obviously I'm not gonna kill you over whatever we're talking about."

  • But if I was..

  • are you REALLY willing to die for this?

  • Are you really..

  • willing..

  • to die?

  • You'll get that strawberry over my dead body.

  • Wanna duel?

  • Well that was easy.

  • I mean, unless it's booby trapped.

  • God dammit.

  • I was wondering where the phrase "over my dead body" even came from,

  • so I asked my best friend,

  • the internet.

  • "Though not much is known about its origins, scholars do know that it was used during the 1800s,

  • as a common hyperbolic expression often used in jest."

  • They joked in the 1800s?

  • "What was a typical joke for the 1800s?"

  • Mother,

  • it strikes me that you are VERY LAZY just now.

  • How dare you say so!

  • Why?

  • Don't you see I'm making bread?

  • True,

  • but that is neither more nor less than LOAFING!

  • VO: The juvenile prankster got no hotcakes several days thereafter.

  • The mother is slowly recovering.

  • That was pretty good.

  • Yeah, for 200 years old, that's not that bad. I'm sure that was like comedy gold back in the day.

  • This whole video is basically just me saying,

  • "I don't like the phrase 'over my dead body'."

  • Because it insinuates a challenge.

  • And when you challenge me,

  • challenge accepted.

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Oh, you can have the last strawberry.

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