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Glorfindel

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10. You, sir and/or madame, say the etaoin that will always be shrdlu!
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 10:51 AM
Apr 2017

Here's an amazingly prescient passage from "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller:

' Yossarian attended the education sessions because he wanted to find out why so many people were working so hard to kill him. A handful of other men were also interested, and the questions were many and good when Clevinger and the subversive corporal finished and made the mistake of asking if there were any.

“Who is Spain?”

“Why is Hitler?”

“When is right?”

“Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?”

“How was Trump at Munich?”

“Hi-ho beriberi!”

and “Balls!” all rang out in rapid succession, and then there was Yossarian with the question that had no answer:

“Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?” '

How, indeed, WAS Trump at Munich? And what about ghoti?

Nevertheless, I do find "scuba girl hose-over" to be just a trifle condescending, if not actually asafoetidia-laden.

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In the DU Lounge, this would fit right in. NT mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2017 #1
And yet, steam-gathering radish greens fist wiggling mako shark! hatrack Apr 2017 #4
I'd like to point out that I've been calling for this for years Orrex Apr 2017 #2
That makes more sense than the original! nt GliderGuider Apr 2017 #3
Now look what you made me do. randome Apr 2017 #5
No, no Magritte rien! hatrack Apr 2017 #7
Ceci n'est pas une pipe! longship Apr 2017 #15
Ceci n'est pas un visage... nt GliderGuider Apr 2017 #26
Je crois en trois visages impossibles avant le petit djeuner. randome Apr 2017 #29
:) GliderGuider Apr 2017 #32
It sure would! ...nt 2naSalit Apr 2017 #6
rotfl OMG rotfl chia Apr 2017 #8
Oblong Tatonka panader0 Apr 2017 #9
You, sir and/or madame, say the etaoin that will always be shrdlu! Glorfindel Apr 2017 #10
I'm on it ... surrealAmerican Apr 2017 #11
I, too wish the liberal pseudo-gravitational eletrocstatic conversion sandwich tickled my updraft. Act_of_Reparation Apr 2017 #12
Turgid, mellifluous socket wrench! Ground-pounding Febreze junkie! hatrack Apr 2017 #13
I'm going to have to re-read Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol now. randome Apr 2017 #14
And I thoughT I was sooooo smart when I trashed the word "introspection." Iggo Apr 2017 #16
A most very cromulant post. longship Apr 2017 #17
Allow my smartphone to auto suggest my response. retrowire Apr 2017 #18
You've totally forgotten the Dadaists ProudLib72 Apr 2017 #19
"Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau." unc70 Apr 2017 #24
fishpack stewgrind OriginalGeek Apr 2017 #20
This... Is.... Big..... nt. NCTraveler Apr 2017 #21
I was promised a scuba girl, and you need to deliver Blue_Tires Apr 2017 #22
Hockey puck, rattlesnake, monkey, monkey, underpants Binkie The Clown Apr 2017 #23
May I mambo dogface to the banana patch? ornotna Apr 2017 #25
I disagree. I like pictures of trees. n/t NNadir Apr 2017 #27
Surrealist, I'll give you a real surrealist! demmiblue Apr 2017 #28
I always knew you were a hoopy frood. n/t ms liberty Apr 2017 #30
How GLARE shoe?!??!!?!? hatrack Apr 2017 #31
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