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And I just have to thank you, PKM. With one hit you landed me on page one in the rep column. . . . .#30. . . . .yaaaaayyyyyy!!!!!!!
 
"United Nations" lol

here's the view of an early articulate spokesman for progressivism, before the term was hijacked by feudalists:

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light. "In time of peace prepare for war" has a deeper meaning than is commonly discerned; it means, not merely that all things earthly have an end—that change is the one immutable and eternal law—but that the soil of peace is thickly sown with the seeds of war and singularly suited to their germination and growth. It was when Kubla Khan had decreed his "stately pleasure dome"—when, that is to say, there were peace and fat feasting in Xanadu—that he
heard from afar
Ancestral voices prophesying war.
One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.
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"Peace" as well may come like a thief in the night, and if the sun should rise after that the world would all be dark as the heart of Africa, enshrouded in the bonds of the worldwide plantation.
 
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[QUOTE%3+Zulu;509343%5+Monotremes!!![/QUOTE%5+

"Wut??"

(almost as proficient as PKM, not quite)
 
[QUOTE%3+babe;509344%5+here's the view of an early articulate spokesman for progressivism, before the term was hijacked by feudalists:

[[QUOTE%5 QUOTE%5 WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light. "In time of peace prepare for war" has a deeper meaning than is commonly discerned; it means, not merely that all things earthly have an end—that change is the one immutable and eternal law—but that the soil of peace is thickly sown with the seeds of war and singularly suited to their germination and growth. It was when Kubla Khan had decreed his "stately pleasure dome"—when, that is to say, there were peace and fat feasting in Xanadu—that he
heard from afar
Ancestral voices prophesying war.
One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.[/QUOTE%5 [/QUOTE%5

[url%5 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972-h/972-h.htm#link2H_4_0025[/url%5

"Peace" as well may come like a thief in the night, and if the sun should rise after that the world would all be dark as the heart of Africa, enshrouded in the bonds of the worldwide plantation.[/QUOTE%5+

how come I can't get the quote thingy to put my quote in a neat little gray box? Another p*virus?
 
UOTE=Zulu;509388]What am I on the list...

#curious[/QUOTE]

you're on page one. . . . community. . . . members. . . . post or rep. . . . #30 and #20, respectively.

and a rising star, to boot.
 
all right. I just have to change the subject:

ZANZIBARI, n. An inhabitant of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, off the eastern coast of Africa. The Zanzibaris, a warlike people, are best known in this country through a threatening diplomatic incident that occurred a few years ago. The American consul at the capital occupied a dwelling that faced the sea, with a sandy beach between. Greatly to the scandal of this official's family, and against repeated remonstrances of the official himself, the people of the city persisted in using the beach for bathing. One day a woman came down to the edge of the water and was stooping to remove her attire (a pair of sandals) when the consul, incensed beyond restraint, fired a charge of bird-shot into the most conspicuous part of her person. Unfortunately for the existing entente cordiale between two great nations, she was the Sultana.
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babe said:
[QUOTE%3+babe;509344%5+here's the view of an early articulate spokesman for progressivism, before the term was hijacked by feudalists:

[[QUOTE%5 QUOTE%5 WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light. "In time of peace prepare for war" has a deeper meaning than is commonly discerned; it means, not merely that all things earthly have an end—that change is the one immutable and eternal law—but that the soil of peace is thickly sown with the seeds of war and singularly suited to their germination and growth. It was when Kubla Khan had decreed his "stately pleasure dome"—when, that is to say, there were peace and fat feasting in Xanadu—that he
heard from afar
Ancestral voices prophesying war.
One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.[/QUOTE%5 [/QUOTE%5

[url%5 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972-h/972-h.htm#link2H_4_0025[/url%5

"Peace" as well may come like a thief in the night, and if the sun should rise after that the world would all be dark as the heart of Africa, enshrouded in the bonds of the worldwide plantation.[/QUOTE%5+

how come I can't get the quote thingy to put my quote in a neat little gray box? Another p*virus?
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fixed.
 
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