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    Compass ways, no doubt, will still stay distinct, not joining
    'til this world and its sky stand in front of God's mighty chair
    but compass ways do not total all of the world, family or blood or birth
    if two strong individuals almost touch, though such individuals hail from far-distant parts of this world!

    De-E: She turned me into a newt! But I got better.
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    That woman did magic upon my body, such that I took on lizard form. But now I'm not a lizard.

    De-E:
    The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
    It isn't just one of your holiday games;
    You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
    When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES

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    Naming a cat is difficult,
    it isn't just a holiday thing to do;
    You may think at first that I'm barking mad
    but I insist to you, a cat must claim 3 DISTINCT WAYS TO CALL HIM.

    De-E: For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.

    From here: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...l/bigotry.html

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    It is no laughing thought to call a cat a cat
    and not a task to play on hot sunny days
    Your opinion may insist that I am mad
    As I say it is known by almost four ways

    De-E: Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country

    Darn, ninja'd. I should not wait so long again.
    In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.

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    See posts #10 and 53.

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    Quote Originally posted by Elendil's Heir View post
    See posts #10 and 53.
    D'oh :

    Oh well, the next one along, can pick up yours
    In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.

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    Sight a post at six-plus-four, also at 53. D'oh. All is okay though, human to follow this can pick up yours.



    (Okay okay, seriously: )

    For happily, Lords USA,
    Allow nothing of bad things to say,
    No racist bigots,
    Will stand with our lot,
    Only a good folk is worthy today

    De-E: The world's smartest man poses no greater threat to me than does its smartest termite.
    Last edited by AllWalker; 05 Apr 2012 at 07:08 PM. Reason: : ) != :)
    Something tells me we haven't seen the last of foreshadowing.

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    You can do bright human stuff, or adroitly dig burrows through dirt mounds as an albino ant might; you will not harm Doctor Manhattan anyway!

    De-E: There was an old man from Nantucket
    Who kept all his cash in a bucket;
    His daughter, named Nan,
    Ran off with a man -
    And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
    Last edited by Malacandra; 05 Apr 2012 at 11:20 PM. Reason: Avoid saying "smart"
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    An old man from an island hard by our Mass. coast
    kept all his cash in a pail
    his girl-child Nan
    ran off with a man
    and as for that pail, Nan took it!

    De-E: A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.

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    All must do as most think fit - but not all as most think fit, by law, nor for always. Allow for inconstant opinions; folk will want tomorrow what was not a want today. Do this, or you do not qualify as your own man.

    De-E: An object resting in place will tend to rest in place; an object in motion will tend to move at constant speed in the same direction.
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    F=ma

    (or less cheatingly (and more accurately)...)

    A thing won't go, but if it's going it will stay going. This will remain until said thing absorbs a push, kick or jab.

    De-E: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
    Last edited by AllWalker; 06 Apr 2012 at 07:00 PM.
    Something tells me we haven't seen the last of foreshadowing.

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    Quote Originally posted by AllWalker View post
    F=ma
    Wrong Law...

    Only if you fail do you hit things, animals or humans.

    De-E: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
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    Quote Originally posted by Malacandra View post
    Quote Originally posted by AllWalker View post
    F=ma
    Wrong Law...
    Hey I did say "more accurately"...
    Something tells me we haven't seen the last of foreshadowing.

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    Quote Originally posted by AllWalker View post
    Quote Originally posted by Malacandra View post
    Quote Originally posted by AllWalker View post
    F=ma
    Wrong Law...
    Well, if by "more accurately" you mean:

    given: The First Commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before me
    de-e'd: Law that's on top: do not kill anybody

    would be OK on the grounds that you've paraphrased a commandment...

    Hey I did say "more accurately"...
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    All know, truly, that a man with lots of cash but no missus is going to want to marry a gal, and soon.

    De-E: Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation.
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    I'm that man from Moby Dick, Ishi. I had next to no cash many moons ago, I forgot how long though, and nothing good on shore. So, I thought to sail on a whaling ship. In short, it is my way of staying calm.

    De-E: Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky.
    In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.

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    Flash, flash, tiny sunling, how I think upon your actuality. So high atop our world, as a crystal of allotropic carbon.

    De-E: To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
    "You laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because I'm on nitrous."

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    Khan's dying insult to Admiral Kirk.

    There, no E's! OK, seriously:

    In my final instants I fight with you; from a nasty underworld I stab at you; out of loathing I spit my lungs' last air at you.

    De-E: We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

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    Nothing should author timidity but timidity on its own.

    De-E: All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

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    Quote Originally posted by Elendil's Heir View post
    Khan's dying insult to Admiral Kirk.
    (Khan quoting Captain Ahab at Kirk; I was trying to stick with our Moby Dick theme.)

    Things apart from gold also glint, not all who sojourn stray, old stuff that is strong might not atrophy, profound roots do not chill away.

    De-E: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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    Afraid? Not my destiny. If I am afraid, my mind fails. If I am afraid, total ruin follows. I will confront cowardly thoughts. Panic will go around and past my mind. I will look inward to watch its path. Nothing will stay but my own soul.

    (From Dune, right?)

    De-E: I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

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    (Ironically, I am watching Bill Paxton right now, in Big Love.)

    I say our job right now is to char this dump with atomic bombs from our ship in orbit. That's our only way to stamp out all bugs down on that nasty ground.

    De-E: What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.
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    Is what I call it important? No. An aromatic but thorny bloom would still bring joy to all if you or I did call it a thing it is not.

    De-E: Sir, you have a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder.

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    Lad! A bug is on your acromion!

    De-E:
    To-morrow when thou leavest, what wilt thou say ?
    Wilt thou then antedate some new-made vow ?
    Or say that now
    We are not just those persons which we were ?

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    Tomorrow as you go, what will you say?
    Will you start with an unknown and original oath
    or say that now
    Both of us do not match what has past.

    De-E: Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death, Rode the six hundred.
    In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.

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    Half an hour's walk, half an hour's walk, Half an hour's walk onward, All in the big mythic bowl of a loooooong dirt nap without conclusion, Rode a big group of doom-chasing cavalry troops.

    De-E: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
    Thou art more lovely and more temperate;
    Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
    And summer's lease hath all too short a date....

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    Can I contrast you to, oh...how about July 1st?
    It isn't as alluring nor as mild as you;
    Spring's pulchritudinous shoots May's winds do strip,
    And it's Fall way too soon, anyway...

    De-E: Sand people travel single file, to hide their numbers.
    "You laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because I'm on nitrous."

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    Sand folk walk in a straight row, not hip to hip, so that counting how many is difficult.

    De-E: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!

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    I call that bold talk for a fat man with a solitary optic capability

    De-E:
    So close, no matter how far
    Couldn't be much more from the heart
    Forever trusting who we are
    and nothing else matters
    In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.

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    Such proximity, though you and I may stay far away
    couldn't flow from my cardiac organ in any growing way
    Always trusting who you and I still stay
    and nothing in all of the world has any claim on us

    De-E: Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes?

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    Boas! (Or possibly cobras or pythons!) Why must this situation sport such vermin?!

    De-E: The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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    Bzzt. "Vermin" has an e.

    A growing, tall plant, symbolic of all our rights, must drink occasionally of the blood of patriots and tyrants.

    De-E: Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

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    stupid snaky varmints

    It is our fond wish, and our burning petition, that this mighty affliction of war may quickly pass away.

    De-E: It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
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    Bzzt. "Petition" has an e, too.

    I am doing a truly good thing now, which I did not do at all on any prior occasion; and will also savor a truly good balm that I did not on any prior occasion.

    De-E: Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.

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    Follow, walk in front, or exit our path.

    De-E: Avengers assemble!

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    Holy crap, I suck.

    Iron Man, Thor, Captain USA, Black Widow, and Bow Guy...amass!

    De-E: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair
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    All was contradictory in that day, both good and bad in many ways - so puzzling, I must say!

    De-E: Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!

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    Cop tags? Stinkin' cop tags would boast no utility to us in this situation!

    De-E: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants! Absorbent and yellow and porous is he! Spongebob Squarepants!
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    Who has his casa far down in global agua? You know who! Dry and canary and porous is that small guy! Truly, you know who!

    De-E: There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.
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    I sang that just now, to his actual cartoon intro aria, and it was damn amusing.

    Pilots might sport brass balls, or many birthdays, but not both.

    De-E: A pretty girl is like a melody that haunts you night and day. Just like the strain of a haunting refrain, she'll start upon a marathon, and run around your brain.
    "You laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because I'm on nitrous."

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    Quote Originally posted by OneCentStamp View post
    I sang that just now, to his actual cartoon intro aria, and it was damn amusing. ....
    My version, or the original? My version wouldn't scan very well, I'm afraid.

    A hawt young woman is much as a song that haunts you night and day. As with a song that you cannot stop in your brain, that girl will start upon a marathon, and run around your brain.

    De-E: When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth....

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    Yours! 'Twas hard to adapt to that rhythm, but funny as crap!

    So, in flow of history, figuring it's good timing to cut off filial bonds with Britain, and grab our rightful spot among nations of our world...

    De-E: You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
    You make me happy when skies are gray
    You'll never know dear, how much I love you
    Please don't take my sunshine away
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