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(50,566 posts)I love it when you chime in like this.
Make7
(8,543 posts)Kennah
(14,234 posts)jmowreader
(50,528 posts)According to Dante:
Bolgia 5: Corrupt politicians (barrators) are immersed in a lake of boiling pitch, which represents the sticky fingers and dark secrets of their corrupt deals.[41] The barrators are the political analogue of the simoniacs, and Dante devotes several cantos to them. They are guarded by devils called the Malebranche ("Evil Claws" , who provide some savage and satirical black comedy in the last line of Canto XXI, the sign for their march is provided by a fart: "and he had made a trumpet of his ass."[42] The leader of the Malebranche, Malacoda ("Evil Tail" , assigns a troop to escort Virgil and Dante safely to the next bridge. The troop hook and torment one of the sinners (identified by early commentators as Ciampolo), who names some Italian grafters and then tricks the Malebranche in order to escape back into the pitch. The promise of safe conduct the poets received from the demons turns out to have limited value (and there is no "next bridge" ,[43] so the poets are forced to scramble down into the sixth Bolgia (Cantos XXI through XXIII).
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,514 posts)2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)PDJane
(10,103 posts)And 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" is at the top of the brit charts............
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)She really was a great politician.
now, poops away................
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awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)it's grave pooping.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)rocktivity
(44,571 posts)But wait, there's more -- this ISN'T the first time I was reminded of Triumph today!
rocktivity
HCE SuiGeneris
(14,994 posts)OMG!!!
Anal mucus
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)HCE SuiGeneris
(14,994 posts)Salviati
(6,008 posts)Iggo
(47,534 posts)RGinNJ
(1,019 posts)But found She was brown.
PD Turk
(1,289 posts)When I read the title I was 99% sure what the punch line was going to be... it didn't disappoint!
... you made a funny..
chknltl
(10,558 posts)...... wait a minute...... Dennis WHO??? Isn't he that sorta funny guy who lost his cushy HBO gigs and now sucks up to that pompous overcaffinated O'Riely fellow In order to get a paycheck for smoking pot while spouting Ayn Randian selfishness and little known sports trivia on the radio to folks who struggle with high school level Gozinta? Can we poop on him too?
high school level Gozinta
Kennah
(14,234 posts)pacalo
(24,721 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,365 posts)any social safety net in the UK (yet even in this, many of those Tories are still to the left of many US Dem politicians and that is a truly sorry state of affairs!), Lady Thatcher spent her final days in a suite at the Ritz.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256286/Lady-Thatcher-recuperates-The-Ritz-Former-PM-stays-luxury-suite-recovers-minor-surgery.html
DFW
(54,268 posts)Well worth reading. Entitled "Lessons Maggie taught me"
http://www.thenation.com/article/173706/lessons-maggie-taught-me?rel=emailNation%22
One snip: "Detestable though she was, she was a radical and not a reactionary. She has not been removed for any of her offenses against democracy or decency. Rather, she has been deposed by those who worship only opinion polls and their own skins and who yearn for a quiet life and business as usual--living gallantly off the fat of the land."
Ends with "If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from (Thatcher), then we might not have to look upon her like again."
Should be required reading for Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the Obama White House.
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)alterfurz
(2,469 posts)"For £3million, they could buy everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we would dig a hole so deep that we could hand her over to Satan personally."
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)Aristus
(66,275 posts)It can mean 'great', awe-inspiring', or 'terrible', or 'filthy'.
I think the latter two describe Thatcher perfectly...
RZM
(8,556 posts)грозный (grozny) = awesome, great, etc., a la Ivan the Terrible (Ivan Grozny)
грязный (griazny) = dirty, filthy, etc.
Not the same word, though they are very close - only one letter is different.
Aristus
(66,275 posts)I thought my Russian was better than that...
steve2470
(37,457 posts)MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)I mean, really.
Twin size, king, water-bed, futon?
All cotton sheets or a synthetic blend?
Just curious.
Anyway, Thatcher never met a dictator she didn't slobber over in paroxysms resembling sexual frenzy, a poor person whose life she couldn't make even worse then laugh about it, or a working-class wage earner she didn't despise even though she used their children to fill the ranks of the military in her little dreams of a faded Empire.
Glad she's dead, too bad it took so long for it to happen.