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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 01:26 PM
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"As for the Pyramids...
there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs. I might possibly invent some excuse for them and him, but I have no time for it."

Guess who wrote the above words.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 01:37 PM
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1. A pissed off construction worker?
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 01:40 PM
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2. Maybe a union negotiator?
nt
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 01:40 PM
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3. Hahahaha... I don't know... but I like it.
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:46 PM
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5. I'm glad that you like it. It was Thoreau.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 10:04 AM
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8. Really? Wonderful!
:D
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-30-07 10:41 AM
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9. Ha. I would have guessed Twain. n/t
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 01:42 PM
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4. Rabrrrrr?
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otherlander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 09:50 PM
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6. Benjamin Franklin?
Howard Zinn?
You?
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:04 PM
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7. Your favorite author?
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