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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts) Mon Feb 3, 2014, 11:07 AM Feb 2014

Oh what a tangled web we weave,When first we practise to deceive!

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.
Scottish author & novelist (1771 - 1832)

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Oh what a tangled web we weave,When first we practise to deceive! (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Feb 2014 OP

The web's unravelling is a mess to behold. ananda Feb 2014 #1

Just google Christie and Humpty Dumpty malaise Feb 2014 #4

. CBGLuthier Feb 2014 #2

As is believed to be the case with most others dipsydoodle Feb 2014 #3

"Alas. poor Wildstein. I knew him .... lpbk2713 Feb 2014 #5

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. yortsed snacilbuper Feb 2014 #6

Christie heading to Texas, Illinois to raise money for GOP governors group yortsed snacilbuper Feb 2014 #7

ananda

(28,868 posts)

1. The web's unravelling is a mess to behold.

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Mon Feb 3, 2014, 11:12 AM

Feb 2014

I also think of Humpty Dumpty.

All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

malaise

(269,087 posts)

4. Just google Christie and Humpty Dumpty

Reply to ananda (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 3, 2014, 11:31 AM

Feb 2014

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)

2. .

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Mon Feb 3, 2014, 11:13 AM

Feb 2014

Deceiver, dissembler
Your trousers are alight
From what pole or gallows
Shall they dangle in the night?

When I asked of your career
Why did you have to kick my rear
With that stinking lie of thine
Proclaiming that you owned a mine?

When you asked to borrow my stallion
To visit a nearby-moored galleon
How could I ever know that you
Intended only to turn him into glue?

What red devil of mendacity
Grips your soul with such tenacity?
Will one you cruelly shower with lies
Put a pistol ball between your eyes?

What infernal serpent
Has lent you his forked tongue?
From what pit of foul deceit
Are all these whoppers sprung?

Deceiver, dissembler
Your trousers are alight
From what pole or gallows
Do they dangle in the night?

William Blake

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

3. As is believed to be the case with most others

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Mon Feb 3, 2014, 11:25 AM

Feb 2014

I thought Shakespeare wrote that but I find are correct - so thanks.

lpbk2713

(42,760 posts)

5. "Alas. poor Wildstein. I knew him ....

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Mon Feb 3, 2014, 11:38 AM

Feb 2014

wellll ... maybe I didn't know him after all."

yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts)

6. It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Mon Feb 3, 2014, 05:46 PM

Feb 2014

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
Thomas Paine

yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts)

7. Christie heading to Texas, Illinois to raise money for GOP governors group

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Tue Feb 4, 2014, 02:17 PM

Feb 2014

Governor Christie isn’t letting federal and legislative inquiries into the George Washington Bridge lane closures prevent him from travelling the country in his role as chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

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