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WCT -February 8-12, 2010
Akima:
--- Quote from: westrim on 07 Feb 2010, 22:26 ---It's worth noting that the Shakespeare quote comes from a tyrant, trying to remove all opposition to his reign.
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No. I'm sorry, but no.
The line "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." is taken from Henry VI Part II, and is NOT spoken by a tyrant seeking to remove opposition to his reign. In fact the line is placed in the mouth of Dick, a follower of Jack Cade (an unsavoury adventurer who led a brief rebellion in 1450 during the stormy days leading up to the Wars Of The Roses, and was killed in the subsequent fighting). Shakespeare certainly paints Cade and his rabble in very unsympathetic colours, but Dick's statement is not made in the context of depriving people of their rights, but in his hostility to lawyers as representatives of the world of private property and established order from which he is completely excluded. In the same scene Cade and his followers execute a man simply for being able to read and write, since literacy was then an elite skill identified with power and property. Today, Jack Cade would be a radio talk-show host, still able to exploit the resentment of the disenfranchised but without risking his life.
ysth:
Aaarrrggg! http://www.gunnerkrigg.com is down!
I've come here for sympathy.
Later: back up. Yay, dead fox bodies.
Rocketman:
--- Quote from: Wiregeek on 07 Feb 2010, 21:45 ---all the people that get so goddamn worked up over OMG SOMEONE SUGGESTING THAT POLYAMORY MAY NOT BE TEH BEST THING EVAR should be drug out into the street and shot.
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Whores, the lot of them!
ecstaticjoy:
In my alternate reality, Dora ends up with Tai and Marten ends up with Faye.
Part of me wishes I started reading QC after Marten had gotten with Dora, so I wouldn't keep hoping for him to remember how he used to feel and pursue Faye again. I mean, he could have waited it out if she was worth it to him. She's grown a lot since the first strip. In my alternate QC, Marten would think Faye was worth the wait, and Dora would have been disappointed at first but then she would have found a better match in Tai. Dora would be more herself around Tai and less insecure like she is with Marten. Everyone would be happy and nobody would read my QC. :)
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Tuitsuro on 07 Feb 2010, 21:02 ---
--- Quote from: akronnick on 07 Feb 2010, 20:39 ---Dramatic Gopher is Dramatic. And [dr.cox]re-hea-hea-hea-hea-ly[/dr.cox] played out.
Come on people,TheWEmemesNEEDmustNEWflow!MEMES!
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This is the internet culture. Everything new is old.
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But that's all right; everything old is new.
So everything is simultaneously old and new.... At last! Quantum Culture!
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