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2007-04-11 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-11 13:07|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden imbeciles;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the imbeciles.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-11 13:09|| 2007-04-11 13:09|| Front Page Top

#2 most clods are lonely

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-11 16:23|| 2007-04-11 16:23|| Front Page Top

#3 especially the dirt ones.

Posted by RD">RD 2007-04-11 17:27|| 2007-04-11 17:27|| Front Page Top

#4 One can only hope that when the day finally arrives whereby rap and hip hop are discerned to be the artless nonsense and utterly vacuous drooling repetitive drivel that they are, fans of this industrially manufactured tripe will have to cringe each time they think of their previous affection for it.

Rap, especially, is nothing less than a blight upon humanity's aural landscape. The ignorant Philistines who blare its monotonous unnuanced tedium into our environs are nothing short of vandals who celebrate their willingness to besmirch what little there is left of civilized peace and quiet.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-11 18:24|| 2007-04-11 18:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Good one, Zenster. I added it to my quotations file.

Posted by KBK 2007-04-11 20:03|| 2007-04-11 20:03|| Front Page Top

#6 You are most welcome, KBK. Rap's intrinsic approval for the abuse of women, encouragement of ridiculously conspicuous consumption and glorification of the thug life make it nearly the same sort of retrograde force as Islam.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-11 23:39|| 2007-04-11 23:39|| Front Page Top

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