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safeinOhio

(32,685 posts) Wed Mar 28, 2012, 09:12 PM Mar 2012

'Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive'' mean?

"the cover up is worse than the crime"

Please add to Police 101 classes.

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'Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive'' mean? (Original Post) safeinOhio Mar 2012 OP

If you tell the truth... superpatriotman Mar 2012 #1

What does it mean? ithinkmyliverhurts Mar 2012 #2

So, you support self-serving lies???? kestrel91316 Mar 2012 #5

No more than you would support ithinkmyliverhurts Mar 2012 #6

Oldie, but a goodie (& iho, the best) WolverineDG Mar 2012 #3

EXACTLY... they made a horrible situation even worse. nt Raine Mar 2012 #4

superpatriotman

(6,249 posts)

1. If you tell the truth...

Reply to safeinOhio (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 09:12 PM

Mar 2012

you never have to remember which version of the story you told.

ithinkmyliverhurts

(1,928 posts)

2. What does it mean?

Reply to safeinOhio (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 09:19 PM

Mar 2012

It means that a single line from a crappy poem can live on forever. Blech.

God, Scott's _Marmion_ is shit. Have you had the misfortune of reading the entire thing? If not, don't.

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)

5. So, you support self-serving lies????

Reply to ithinkmyliverhurts (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 09:25 PM

Mar 2012

ithinkmyliverhurts

(1,928 posts)

6. No more than you would support

Reply to kestrel91316 (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 09:27 PM

Mar 2012

non-sequiturs.

Relax. I was making fun of Sir Walter Scott, not your sensibilities. And it really is a crappy poem.

WolverineDG

(22,298 posts)

3. Oldie, but a goodie (& iho, the best)

Reply to safeinOhio (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 09:20 PM

Mar 2012

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain

Raine

(30,540 posts)

4. EXACTLY... they made a horrible situation even worse. nt

Reply to safeinOhio (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 09:23 PM

Mar 2012

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