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Batgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 10:20 AM
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My interpretation of the Good Book, by special request
We have an emotionally unstable, runt pig named Wilbur, who was prone to "fainting" spells. Obviously Bush isn't the Antichrist -- he's Wilbur.

He is befriended by Charlotte, who is quite smart for a spider. It's quite clear from my readings that Charlotte is Auntie Rove.

The character of Templeton, the rat who's a greedy glutton and who has acquired a treasure trove of looted items -- is quite obviously Cheney. One of his items, a rotten egg (read: Halliburton), cracks open and fills the barnyard with a horrible stink.

The owners of the farm were unimpressed with the runt pig George and he was scheduled to meet his demise, but Rove got to work spinning a web with the message "Some Pig." It wasn't much, but it was enough to convice the populace that George must have been appointed by the Lord.

Charlotte begins collecting magazine clippings in order to perfect her message spinning. She, and her counterpart Rove, becomes a master of media manipulation. The next web cannily referred to the runt pig as "Terrific" . More and more people were convinced.

George worried about the competition he was going to face at the fair, knowing he faced a superior competitor -- a larger pig. No need to worry however, with Charlotte/Rove on the case. She spun the message "humble" into her web. Of course the fairgoers ate this shit up.

Even though the larger pig earned the blue ribbon, the bought and paid for election officials give Wilbur a "Special Prize," -- a medal -- which is much better than a simple ribbon and which completely negates the fact that the larger pig came in first place.

Charlotte/Rove considers this her hour of triumph, as well she should. Wilbur never would have made it without her manipulation of a gullible public.
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bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 10:23 AM
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1. That's pretty good...
Some people might not open the thread though - if they are afraid it is a religious rant... :)
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 10:24 AM
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2. that's terrible!
you've gone and destroyed Charlotte's Web! Okay well as long as we're here . . . Karen Hughes is The Goose, wouldn't you ouldn't you say say say?
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Batgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 11:05 AM
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3. I agree about the goose/Hughes parallel
as do many scholars who have studied these ancient scrolls.
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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 11:16 AM
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4. Good news/Bad news...
Charlotte dies at the end.

BUT she has all those little babies that break free and run all over the barnyard. Aaaaaaaaaagh!

:scared:
FSC

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Batgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 11:22 AM
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5. re: Charlotte's hatchlings
one credible school of scholarly thought interprets these little buggers who scurry off from the pigpen to carry on Charlotte/Rove's work, as the rightwing pundits who currently infest our media like so many poisonous arachnids.
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