So, I am reading the press conference quotes on PE.com, becuase I find it is much easier than to read all the articles in the paper, which basically take the same quotes and spin and mis-interpret them to hell, when I ran across this from Brad Childress:
"He also serves who only stands and waits."
When talking about Ryan Moats.
Is Brad getting some religion, or does he just talk funny?
And theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen?
Quote from: Sgt PSN on October 06, 2005, 08:33:55 PM
And theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen?
Yah, sorry about that, hit some key by accident and it thought I was done.
:-D
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.
Edited - good job, Dio.
:yay
I know OC's were smart, but jeez!
Why not throw some Ling Pao in there too?
I don't go for Eastern thought. It's a fault, I know.
Try some of the poon-tang.
It's nice.
(http://www.kamworld.net/chris/images/Butthead.jpg)
Heh heh. Childress is like smart and stuff. Heh heh.
Quote from: Jerome99RIP on October 06, 2005, 08:40:31 PM
Edited - good job, Dio.
:yay
You edited that out before the tag caught it. A guilty point of pride whenever I can manage it myself.
Man, Milton takes some getting used to when reading his works.
I was reading that poem and had to re-start it twice just to get the flow of it down.
Lazy POS. :-D
He's marvelous.
Milton's almost as much fun as Chaucer.
Quote from: Susquehanna Birder on October 06, 2005, 08:46:11 PM
Milton's almost as much fun as Chaucer.
What's funny about that is, they give ninth graders "The Canterbury Tales" and expect them to understand it.
:-D
Quote from: Susquehanna Birder on October 06, 2005, 08:46:11 PMMilton's almost as much fun as Chaucer.
I like Chaucer. :paranoid
He's like Samson. If you cut off the 'stache, he starts quoting Deuce Bigalow. And our offense is boned.
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."
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)
I'm feeling a poetry thread coming on...
QuoteAt 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.
8)
Quote from: Jerome99RIP on October 06, 2005, 09:12:53 PM
I'm feeling a poetry thread coming on...
There once was a man from Nantucket......
:afro
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.
I think Shel Silverstein was about as deep as I ever got. ^-^
Quote from: Diomedes on October 06, 2005, 08:38:55 PM
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 :paranoid
Quote from: methdeez on October 06, 2005, 08:32:12 PM
"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.
(http://spinningspyder.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/cthulhu_1.gif)
"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."
(http://www.acmewebpages.com/graphics/sutherland.jpg)
"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!"