Well, I first want to wish everyone a happy Labor Day, and say that I am looking forward to fall! One of me favorite times of the year! Though noted to be ‘poor English’ by popular British linguist Michael Quinion, author of the Internet forum, World Wide Words, “believe you me” is an emphatic statement meant to enforce the believability of something being stated. The earliest example printed in The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is from 1926. But the thought definitely goes back further.