Friday, February 11, 2005

 
Re the Corner-"Be More Machiavellian&Churchill-shaped albatross:

Albatross! Get your albatross! (link below)
Rhyme of the Ancient Machiavelli?

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Granted, it's not like making love to the Ancient Mariner or taking a class from Ward Churchill or one of the other "thousand thousand slimy things that live" on in the academy, but perhaps Derbymariner, the Ancient Yachtsman, could use it for target practice with a 13th century crossbow.
I don't think I'll submit the following stanza to NRO, given that the Ombudsman and KJL both probably have "kirk" filters, and "great Father" sounds a tad Amerindish, and its "gay" might serve as a painful reminder of its expropriation by the butt pirates* of the Log Cabin Boys:

To walk together to the kirk,
And all together pray,
While each to his great Father bends,
Old men, and babes, and loving friends,
And youths and maidens gay!

*NTTIAWT!