Re: The OverRelational Manifesto. VOCIFEROUS IGNORANCE vs. NUMB DOGMA.

Marshall wrote:
> JOG wrote:
> > Marshall wrote:
> > >
> > > In the US we say "brevity is the soul of wit."
> >
> > Yes, a great quote from that famous US citizen, William Shakespeare.
> > (cough ;)
>
> Hey! I didn't say an American said it; I said we say it in America. :-)
> We go around all day in our SUVs, wearing cowboy hats, and quoting
> Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and the Beatles. It's common for junior
> high school students to get in to fights over who was the better
> prime minister, Gladstone or Disraeli. Youth gangs often identify
> with either the late romantics or the Victorian poets, and have
> rumbles about Shelly vs. whoever, sometimes dressed as members
> of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Just the other day, I read a
> poem by Christina Rosetti at a wedding, and a rival gang of
> Byronites almost started a riot.
>

Heh, brilliant. You, sir, are seriously wasted in IT.

> "When I am dead my Dearest,
> Sing no sad songs for me, ..."
>
> My new favorite Shakespeare quote: "He jests at scars that
> never felt a wound." Appears immediately prior to a much
> more familiar quote.
>
>
> Marshall
>
> PS. There was actually a Disraeli reference on Family Guy a while
> ago, so you know I must be telling the truth.
Received on Wed May 17 2006 - 21:42:39 CEST