Some sort of biblical reference?

[Diomedes]

Milton's almost as much fun as Chaucer.

I like Chaucer.   

[QB Eagles]

He's like Samson. If you cut off the 'stache, he starts quoting Deuce Bigalow. And our offense is boned.

[Larry]

Now the operative question is, has Childress read Milton or did he just lift that epigram from "Howard Johnson's Book of Quotes and Witticisms for All Occasions."

[Diomedes]

It's become a maxim.  His grandfather or high school football  coach probably said it all the time.  Like "Heavy is the head that wears the crown." (Shakespeare) Or "Farg Dallas!" (Jeebus)

[Rome]

I'm feeling a poetry thread coming on...

At ten AM the young housewife
moves about in negligee behind
the wooden walls of her husband's house.
I pass solitary in my car.

Then again she comes to the curb
to call the ice-man, fish-man, and stands
shy, uncorseted, tucking in
stray ends of hair, and I compare her
to a fallen leaf.

The noiseless wheels of my car
rush with a crackling sound over
dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling.

[Sgt PSN]

I'm feeling a poetry thread coming on...

There once was a man from Nantucket......

[Rome]

I'm feeling a poetry thread coming on...

There once was a man from Nantucket......

Chuggie?

[PhillyGirl]

I'm feeling a poetry thread coming on...

There once was a man from Nantucket......

Chuggie?

No, that would be Little Miss Muffet.

[Zanshin]

Wasn't ever a great fan of romantic-era poetry, Rime of the Ancient Mariner notwithstanding.  Dense stuff, and not always worth the density.  Outside of that era, Wordsworth is great, though.  Some of Whitman's stuff.  Frost. Other than that, not a terribly big poetry fan.

[MadMarchHare]

I think Shel Silverstein was about as deep as I ever got.

[TempleOwl]

It's from Milton.
 
On His Blindness
 
WHEN I consider how my light is spent   
  E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,   
  And that one Talent which is death to hide,   
  Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent   
To serve therewith my Maker, and present            5
  My true account, least he returning chide,   
  Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd,   
  I fondly ask; But patience to prevent   
That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need   
  Either man's work or his own gifts, who best     10
  Bear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his State   
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed   
  And post o're Land and Ocean without rest:   
  They also serve who only stand and waite.

When you read it backwards it keeps saying...

MOATS is GOD...MOATS is GOD...MOATS is GOD...MOATS is GOD     

[Beermonkey]

"He also serves who only stands and waits."

When talking about Ryan Moats.
Is Brad getting some religion, or does he just talk funny?

You're all wrong. Childress is saying that Moats serves his dark master Cthulhu & is biding his time until the awakening of the Old Ones.

[MadMarchHare]

"OK, don't write this down, but I find Milton as boring as you find Milton.  Also don't write this down, but he's long winded, overblown, and his jokes are terrible."

[rjs246]

"That does not relieve you from your assigments. I'm still waiting for papers from some of you. Hey I'm not joking. This is my job!"