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Socialists win Greek election
2009-10-05
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's Söcialists, who campaigned on a promise to inject a 3 billion euro ($4.36 billion) stimulus package into the economy, have won Sunday's national election with enough seats to form a government.
$4.4 billion? Pikers. Can't even do a stimulus right. Watch the big O and learn, you Greeks ...
No, no, Dr. Steve! Never "you Greeks," but "O Greeks", thusly:

When springs Aurora, rosy-fingered dawn
Up in the sky, to greet Apollo's golden chariot
With its great horses; driven always
By that golden youth, Apollo, golden-haired Apollo,
Ever wise, the silver-tongued Apollo,
Quicksilver-fingered player of the lyre,
Then hark! O Greeks, unto this man before you,
This Apollo manifest, this silver-tongued Obama,
Quicksilver-tongue'd, player of the liar,
Or so 'tis said, among the wise men,
Elders enhalled in the Hall of the Elders, the Senate,
No longer woolen-robed nor staid of gait and manner,
But like them hark, and listen to this man,
This Apollo, this Obama come to Earth.
Hark ye and learn, O Greeks!


One must speak to one's audience in the language they will best understand, after all.
My mistake, I never did study the classics properly ...
Posted by:Steve White

#5  How sad is it that they elected a government that promised to beg money for them.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2009-10-05 18:44  

#4  Better throw a "y'all" or two in there as well, ma'am. It makes certain Greeks feel better.

And so I shall, Pappy, when writing in American. But that was pure Homerian Greek, that was. One of the lost stanzas of the Illiad. You can tell because it's written in all those funny hooks and squiggles of the Classic Greek alphabet, the one that came so many centuries after Homer.

Lumpy Elmoluck5091, glad I could help. Even the worst doggerel contains a tiny insight or two if approached with the proper frame of mind.
Posted by: trailing wife    2009-10-05 18:09  

#3  I am weak on the classics, too. Thanks for the quote, TW. Gave me some new insight on the Ap@llo Alliance, authors of the ci@lis bill.
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091   2009-10-05 10:01  

#2  One must speak to one's audience in the language they will best understand, after all.

Better throw a "y'all" or two in there as well, ma'am. It makes certain Greeks feel better.
Posted by: Pappy   2009-10-05 09:05  

#1  Wine and moussaka for everyone, there as well as here. Emperor ObamAchilles wills it!
Posted by: Besoeker in Duitsland   2009-10-05 08:27  

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