ZOME BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENT!!!111oneoneone

[Lost User]

Oh well, thats not too much of a misquote. Talking of Shakespere I once saw a sign in a camping shop window: "Now is the discount of our winter tents" which I thought quite witty.

Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

[soap brain]

fat_boy wrote:

Oh well, thats not too much of a misquote.

He completely reversed the meaning and got rid of the delicate pause that makes the remark so...remarkable.

[Dalek Dave]

Neither was George Washington, the 15th President!

------------------------------------ "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion" Arthur C Clarke

[Lost User]

OK having methinks at the end casts some doubt on the the strength of the sentiment expressed but it isnt that serious.

Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

[soap brain]

That isn't what I meant. The placement of the 'methinks' doesn't matter unduly, it's the meaning of the word 'protest'. Gertrude meant it like someone 'protesting their innocence', and it's brilliantly ironic in the context of Hamlet's play.

[Lost User]

I think Ilion is voting on this thred.:suss: Anyway, I've got some heavy driver coding - debugging to do. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and so it goes on like the last three tomorrows.

Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

[soap brain]

fat_boy wrote:

Anyway, I've got some heavy driver coding - debugging to do. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and so it goes on like the last three tomorrows.

Um, OK. Have fun.

[Stan Shannon]

EliottA wrote:

ZOMG HE HAS NO EXPERIENCES[^]

You call that experience?

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

[soap brain]

What do you call it?

[BoneSoft]

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

What kind of argument is that?

SSBOP: Standard SoapBox Operating Procedure.

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[Stan Shannon]

I would call it less experience than any president we have ever had. In fact, I would call it far less experience than most people pushing 50 who are not president.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

[Ilion]

What must it be like ... to be so transparent that you can't even see yourself?