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korme
11-19-2004, 01:04 PM
http://www.sorryeverybody.com/upload_files/se11687.jpeg
Noop
11-19-2004, 01:13 PM
Post of the year.
Franklinnoble
11-19-2004, 01:19 PM
Emperor Palpatine did the same thing in Star Wars: Episode II.

I blame Jar-Jar.
DeToxRox
11-19-2004, 01:39 PM
caesars aged fairly well
KWhit
11-19-2004, 01:58 PM
What's up with the dude holding the quote though? Couldn't he have just like typed it in or something?

BTW, Billy Shakes rox!
DeToxRox
11-19-2004, 01:59 PM
i remember the lyrical masterminds of LFO came up with this gem..

"billy shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets"

and you know what? it's true
Router Help
11-19-2004, 02:07 PM
Sorry to rain on the parade: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm
portnoise
11-19-2004, 02:14 PM
That rocks. Here's another quote:

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war: neigher in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."

--Hermann Goering, Luftwarre Commander, Nuremberg Trials, 1946.
portnoise
11-19-2004, 02:17 PM
Sorry to rain on the parade: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm

Dola--Shakespeare's a poet, not a freakin' journalist. The fact that Caesar didn't say it doesn't mean there's no truth to it.
Ksyrup
11-19-2004, 02:19 PM
Pizza! Pizza!

Quit quoting Shakespeare and work on bringing some more free agents to Detroit, slacker.
DeToxRox
11-19-2004, 02:20 PM
Dola--Shakespeare's a poet, not a freakin' journalist. The fact that Caesar didn't say it doesn't mean there's no truth to it.

i thought his point was that if you read the site it could've been made up a few years ago, and thus the significance is nill because they just made it up during this conflict.

again, i only glanced at that site but thats what i thought he meant.
QuikSand
11-19-2004, 02:21 PM
It's a shame that something like factual accuracy is just a tiny little footnote in (yet another) discussion like this.
rkmsuf
11-19-2004, 02:21 PM
There's no way Ceasar would have stood for last Monday's MNF opening.
korme
11-19-2004, 02:24 PM
It's a shame that something like factual accuracy is just a tiny little footnote in (yet another) discussion like this.
hahaha, yea, that sucks that it's not correct.

discuss anyways!
portnoise
11-19-2004, 02:26 PM
It's a shame that something like factual accuracy is just a tiny little footnote in (yet another) discussion like this.

Aaah... yes... but there's truth to it nevertheless. Anyone like my German thing? Huh? Huh?
DeToxRox
11-19-2004, 02:26 PM
There's no way Ceasar would have stood for last Monday's MNF opening.

nor would alexander the great... though if it had been TO... well thats open for discussion
rkmsuf
11-19-2004, 02:26 PM
What?

No one's attributing this quote to Caesar: not Shakespeare, not the guy in the picture, not Shorty...

Poetry. Essential truth. Someone wrote the words and there's truth in them; doesn't matter who.

So why doesn't the guy hiding behind the quote in the picture sign his name to it.
rkmsuf
11-19-2004, 02:28 PM
nor would alexander the great... though if it had been TO... well thats open for discussion

Ceasar was no dummy. The only women dropping towels in his kingdom will be for Ceasar himself.
Router Help
11-19-2004, 02:32 PM
No one's attributing this quote to Caesar: not Shakespeare, not the guy in the picture, not Shorty...

The guy in the photo thinks it's Shakespeare, The title of the thread implies that it is Shakespeare. . .

I like the quote, and the only reason I researched it was because I wanted to put it on my website.
portnoise
11-19-2004, 02:34 PM
The guy in the photo thinks it's Shakespeare, The title of the thread implies that it is Shakespeare. . .

I like the quote, and the only reason I researched it was because I wanted to put it on my website.

Yes. You're right.

But the Nazi thing is really Nazi.
judicial clerk
11-19-2004, 04:05 PM
Maybe the guy holding the quote is named william shakespeare. Of course, the guy known as william shakespeare didn't write all of those play anyways. They were actually written by some minor noble whose name escapes me.
Desnudo
11-19-2004, 04:30 PM
Maybe the guy holding the quote is named william shakespeare. Of course, the guy known as william shakespeare didn't write all of those play anyways. They were actually written by some minor noble whose name escapes me.

Sandwich? I thought that idea was uncomfirmed theory.
LloydLungs
11-19-2004, 05:14 PM
"Beware the agenda-driven fool who doesn't even bother to match the writing style of the dude he's trying to pretend to quote. And beware all the smug pseudo-intellectuals who apparently have never actually read a single one of my ding-dong plays. I mean, seriously."

--William Shakespeare
sabotai
11-19-2004, 05:53 PM
"I am the walrus."

-- William Shakespeare
judicial clerk
11-19-2004, 06:10 PM
Sandwich? I thought that idea was uncomfirmed theory.

Not Sandwich, ***judicial clerk searches internet*** Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
BigJohn&TheLions
11-19-2004, 06:27 PM
Something in the writing just did not scream "Shakepeare" to me. Could be that there were no "Ho!" "Hither" "Thus" "Thy" "Thee"

It was too clearly written!!!
Shkspr
11-19-2004, 11:32 PM
I'm not supposed to be taking any of this personally, right?
RendeR
11-19-2004, 11:59 PM
Not Sandwich, ***judicial clerk searches internet*** Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford


no matter the name, its still a completely unsubstantiated theory. We just went over shakespeare and the numerous theories regarding who really wrote his plays, there is no real evidence that anyone other than shakespeare did the writing, although it was brought to light that he wrote 90% of his love sonnets about a gay noble that he spent immense amounts of time with.....
QuikSand
11-20-2004, 08:04 AM
Not Sandwich, ***judicial clerk searches internet*** Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

Sure, there's a somewhat supported theory that people other than WS wrote some/many of the works attributed to him... but let's not jump ahead and claim this as establiished fact. There are tender, impressionable ears in this thread.
ctmason
11-20-2004, 11:23 AM
Yeah, and we don't want anyone screwing around with our ideas about our fishing gear!