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(90,697 posts)electric_blue68
(14,903 posts)Docreed2003
(16,860 posts)Blue Owl
(50,383 posts)sheshe2
(83,772 posts)It got flushed 15 times and it went down beautifully. Beautiful, the likes you have never seen.
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)it was the best. Huge!
wnylib
(21,468 posts)luckyexpat
(47 posts)I have a feeling his only movements will be into his overflowing diaper. So long, LOSER!
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)Volaris
(10,271 posts)Frerotte
(71 posts)One my favorite bits of poetry I memorized from college days...
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
So relevant in today's landscape.
wnylib
(21,468 posts)morality play about the harm and chaos done to a nation when its ruler is corrupted by ambition and greed. Many quotes in it could apply to DJT.
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown
And put a barron scepter in my grip
There to be wrenched with an unlineal hand
No son of mine succeeding.
Now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.
Fit to govern? No, not fit to live.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
And the well-known:
Out, out brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And is heard no more.
'Tis a tale told by an idiot
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
But MacBeth did have a conscience, which Trump lacks.
Frerotte
(71 posts)I do recall this from my college Shakespeare course!
I want a mask now that says
"Out brief candle!"
wnylib
(21,468 posts)year in high school. Not sure that high school kids are quite ready for it, though. As I remember, we kids spent a lot of time joking around by imitating the witches and miming the hand washing of Lady MacBeth.
Shakespeare aside, I want a mask that says, "Cover your nose, stupid." Or one that shows little spiked images of the virus lurking around an exposed nose, above the mask over the mouth.
Frerotte
(71 posts)I also had some high school exposure especially to Macbeth.
I was in honors English classes for the duration of my high school years.
My undergraduate degree was in English which is where I studied most of the classics in great detail.
My mother must have been in a Macbeth play or had a high school class.
We too had fun mimicking the witches with their cauldrons!
Good times with all that hand washing!
wnylib
(21,468 posts)in high school. Julius Caesar as sophomores, Hamlet as juniors, and MacBeth as seniors. I, too, was in AP English in high school. In college, I Clepped out of a couple required English courses in order to have room in my schedule for the ones I wanted. Loved Shakespeare's poetry and Chaucer in college.
I married an English major, but my major was Spanish language, literature, culture, and history that included both Spain and Latin America. Minor was anthropology.
Hamlet gave us a lot to have fun with in high school, too. For weeks we greeted each other with, " Stand and unfold yourself" or mumbled, "Wormwood, wormwood" in the middle of another class.
We had to read Chaucer in Middle English in college!
That was a fun time! this was in pre internet days so only book learning/study groups.
Sounds like you found an interesting life match - Spanish/English scholars would provide lots of learning opportunities everyday.
You just reminded me that I did have Hamlet and Julius Cesare in high school.
Beware the Ides of March!
wnylib
(21,468 posts)I'd been exposed to a modern translation in high school and had Latin and German in high school, so the original English in college was not so bad.
I remember reading the Miller's Tale in the cafeteria and getting stared at when I laughed out loud.
Frerotte
(71 posts)Yes - language exposure did help tremendously.
I had Latin in high school and college level French. Even though I love languages I found it was so surreal reading English words in those forms - although I enjoyed every minute of it!
Wish I could do it over again now~!
wnylib
(21,468 posts)developments and changes, so, besides enjoying the stories, I kept comparing some of the words and phrasing in the Canterbury Tales to their origins and to how we use them today. Middle English still had a Germanic base but some Latin and French influence from the Normans and the church. Although I didn't study French, my Latin helped because of French being a Latin language.
I liked seeing how word usage and pronunciation changed from Middle English to modern English, too. The same words in Chaucer's writings could have different meanings today. Ideas also seemed timeless to me, e.g. the greed and self interest of some clergy, the complaints about women lacking full rights, hostility between common people and the "educated elites," etc.
The Tales are a good read. I still have my college copy of them.
RussellCattle
(1,535 posts)....of art, I can't help but think that the medium and the technology that created it would amaze the artists of the Renaissance and they would be the first to want to try their hand. Add some timeless and rather dramatic poetry and you've really got something.
coti
(4,612 posts)and other traitors with political power.
SledDriver
(2,059 posts)Oh, wait... right. tRump was permanently banned from Twitter. Oh well.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)NOW THE WORLD'S MOST HATED FAMILY !! POS WILL NOW GET THE RECOGNITION THEY DESERVE !!! AN JUST THINK, ALL STARTED WITH HIS GREAT GRAND -PA GETTING HIS ASS KICKED OUT OF GERMANY BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO PLAY SOLDIER ! SOUND FAMILIAR !!!!
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Ewwww.
Beartracks
(12,814 posts)C Moon
(12,213 posts)Along with thousands of troops.
Warpy
(111,266 posts)NOBODY.
I guess they're all too busy living in their cars in different parking space every night while they use their cell phones to tell each other how easily they're evading the FBI.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)People got to see behind the curtain and see that things are being run, not by the great and powerful Oz, but by a broken-down old crackpot that lied to them right till the end.
I saw a tweet from a Proud Boy (alleged) leader, denouncing Trump. When one of the main parts of their loyalty oath is undying fealty to Il Douche, and it becomes the exact opposite in a few short months (although they didn't seem so short at the time), you have a pretty pitiful movement with a disgrace as its titular head, and are all just one big ball of pathetic. A dangerous kind of pathetic over a short run, but not much of a sustained threat.
Nitram
(22,802 posts)Earthshine2
(4,032 posts)Danascot
(4,690 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,347 posts)erronis
(15,273 posts)They might have been "cute" while spouting spittlish sophisms about socialists but now their just a bunch of stinking middle-aged men (and whatever) and need a hot meal, a shower, a change of identify....
ProfessorGAC
(65,047 posts)In "The Clash Of The Titans", that claymation Kraken was only 14" tall.
Seems appropriate.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,347 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,047 posts)Perseus turned it to stone with the head of Medusa.
Cha
(297,249 posts)SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,343 posts)I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who saidTwo vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lock him up.
(6,929 posts)czarjak
(11,277 posts)We took our country back?
malaise
(269,008 posts)Rec