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badgerpup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-28-09 10:34 AM
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Rush, Billo, Glen, Sean et al...and Caliban
Kind of convoluted, but stick with me for a moment.

In William Shakespeare's The Tempest, the wizard Prospero has landed on a deserted island with his daughter,Miranda.

On the island before them, there was an evil witch (who doesn't make an appearance because she's dead...but you hear about her) Sycorax and her son, Caliban.

Now Caliban was a piece of work...ugly as sin, evil, rotten to the core. Prospero tried to change that, but didn't have much luck...sow's ears do not good silk purses make.

NOW we come to what the subject heading was all about. Prospero was reminding Caliban of all he'd done for him, including teaching him how to TALK.

Caliban replies:

"You taught me language, and my profit on't is that I know how to curse."

All the amazing ways we have to communicate today...and the best they can do is metaphorically take a dump on airways and smear it around.
:eyes::banghead:
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Sal Minella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-28-09 10:44 AM
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1. Caliban limits his own efforts
and then blames the results on someone else.

Caliban should be on the National Logo of the Republican Party.
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-28-09 10:48 AM
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2. Along with Gollum
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Sal Minella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-28-09 11:12 AM
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3. If the Pubbies got the gold ring
they'd cast it into a bullet.
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-28-09 11:14 AM
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4. Sorry, Sauron, we can't keep letting these orcs live on the dole...
We need to privatize your Army of Evil -- we'll outsource it to some Haradrim security contractors. Oh, and we tore down the public housing in Utumno and replaced it with a Best Buy: you can buy plastic copies of the Elvish rings for $4.99!
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badgerpup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-28-09 10:31 PM
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5. shameless kick...
:spray: If only because the guys ahead of this post DESERVE to be seen! :applause:

:kick:
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