Is " I am my brother's keeper" and "he's not heavy he's my brother" left behind as we get less PC? Anyone out there dare to say those words?

I can make a case for the right of the person composing this question to use is instead of are---doing so requires me to consider each element of the compound subject individually---an appropriate requirement since the compound subject consists entirely of quotes.

Grasping at straws doesn't change the fact that two items were mentioned rather than one, necessitating that the verb form be plural.  Go ahead and make your case, and if it is correct, you're right.  If it merely follows or repeats Rosie's example, well, happy straws!
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Take a Valium or a Xanax and chill Randy D.

Words---and when they are written words---grammar both serve speech, not the other way around.

And no writer, especially me,  serves you when I am trying to get a point across.

Grammar and syntax are legitimately used by the writer in any way necessary to force you to "hear" properly what he or she is saying.

None of your words absolve the fact that she erred in what she wrote, Tom.
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 I see that you and I, thee and me, we are on the same wavelength tom. I was an English major. I am quite well aware of the rules. HOWEVER I also think language is used to communicate. It is not dead/rigid/petrified. It is lively and colorful and meant to be played with so I play away all day.  I have my way with words because it pleases me. I don't use words to impress others. I use them to delight me. Along the way I encounter folks who have fun with words too and join in. Those who don't get it are unable to appreciate it. You get it and I thank you for speaking up and out and not backing down. An internet social site is not a school or a publishing firm or an ad agency.  Word usage/spelling is not the point if  we understand one another. If someone doesn't understand all he/she has to do is ask. Welcome to the world of freedom of expression which has no boundaries or limits or rules. How a word is spelled is irrelevant if it communicates the message the user wishes to get across.  Once again Happy Friday m'dear! :)

Thank you for your contribution tom and Happy Thursday! :)

I've seen this graphic before Shar when OS was on Answerbag and then Answermug. Thanks for contributing it. For an off-the-wall picture it sure seems to apply to a lot of things these days. :)

Rosie, HE posted that, I didn't.    He wrote that.

He posted under your moniker? Because? Thank you for the clairifcation  Shar and Happy Friday! :)

I'm having a difficult time stopping my chuckling. at this.

Well that is my friend and Rosie's, Old School.   Every now and then he says HI on here.

Really? I have not received one single Hi. Why?