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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 08:47 PM
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Humpty Dumpty and Bush have a lot in common. Both had great falls
And because it's Bush doing the falling makes it ever greater!

All the King's horses and all the King's men can't do it this time.
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bkcc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 08:51 PM
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1. Not quite the same thing.
After all, Humpty Dumpty didn't have two other branches of the federal government to break his fall (or at least deny that said fall ever happened).
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 09:02 PM
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2. They have this in common, too...how they use words
Edited on Sat Sep-17-05 09:03 PM by mcscajun
Note to Mods: "Through the Looking Glass" is in the public domain. :)

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

Alice was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. 'They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs: they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs - however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That's what I say!'

'Would you tell me, please,' said Alice, 'what that means?'

'Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. 'I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life.'

'That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a thoughtful tone.

'When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.'

From "Through The Looking Glass"
by Lewis Carroll



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