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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 10:54 AM
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Bush is not an idiot - he reads Shakespeare.
Idiots don't read Shakespeare. For those supporters that may have been doubting his intellectual prowess, those thoughts have been dispelled. He's been reading some heavy shit this summer. He's a true intellectual. Those liberals that accuse him of being an idiot are just jealous. He's an advanced homo sapien. :sarcasm:
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 10:56 AM
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1. And we know its true, because he said so
and the mainstream media agrees.

So therefore, it has to be true.

Bush is so much smarter than we could ever hope to be.


At first, I thought that maybe we were idiots for not understanding how great he is.


But now, thanks to Rummy, I know that we are idiots AND fasicsts for not supporting Bush.
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Waya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 10:56 AM
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2. He may read.....
.....Shakespeare - but does he comprehend it?
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 10:56 AM
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3. Shakespeare?
Did they come out with a comic-book version of Julius Caesar? :rofl: :rofl:
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:10 AM
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15. Cliff Notes
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Jawja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:11 AM
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16. Love it!!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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mikeytherat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:14 AM
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20. shakespearecomics.com
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:18 AM
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23. Remember Classic Comics?
Edited on Wed Aug-30-06 11:18 AM by Warpy
They were pretty good ways in the 50s for kids to get a feel what was in classic works of literature. Some kids (like me) read the Classic Comics when they were very small and graduated to the real thing as soon as the reading ability would allow.

I think somebody must've given the little twerp a collection of old Classic Comics. They got pitchurs, he can read those real good.
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 10:56 AM
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4. If 500 monkeys with 500 typewriters will, given enough time, produce...
...a Shakespeare play I certainly would not be surprised to find that one would eventually read it.

PB
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 10:57 AM
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5. So...Alfalfa read and MEMORIZED Shakespeare.
.
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flordehinojos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 10:58 AM
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6. does he hold the book upside down while he reads shakespeare?
is he reading a walt-disneysized version of any of the shakespeare poems/plays? perhaps it is just an illustrated version of any of the plays? and... which play is it that he is reading. do we know?
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 10:58 AM
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7. He said he read "three Shakespeares."
But there was only ONE Shakespeare. What a doof.

Bake
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 10:58 AM
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8. I heard that he reads Dostoyevsky in the original Russian
The man is brilliant. BRILLIANT!!
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slampoet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:00 AM
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9. Smart People HAVE ALREADY READ Shakespeare by the time they are 60 !!


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Nickster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:04 AM
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12. DING DING DING! n/t
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ginnyinWI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:16 AM
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21. He's finally coming around to it, 40 years late.
Freshmen and Sophomores take it in British Lit. in college around age 18-20.

No, actually, make that secondary school. I remember Julius Caesar from the Eighth grade.
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mikeytherat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:01 AM
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10. "Apes don't read philosophy."
Edited on Wed Aug-30-06 11:02 AM by mikeytherat
Otto: You said you loved him!

Wanda: That's right. Now let me give you a multiple choice question - A. Wanda was lying. B. Wanda was telling the truth. Which one you gonna pick?

Otto: You told me you were not planning to see him!

Wanda: Because I knew you would come along and fuck it up. I'm setting up a guy who could be incredibly important to us - who's gonna tell me where the diamonds are and whether they're going to come and arrest you and you come loping in like Rambo without a jock strap and dangle him out a fifth floor window. Now, was that smart? Was it shrewd? Was that good tactics? Or was it stupid?

Otto: Don't call me stupid.

Wanda: Oh, right, to call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I've worn dresses with higher IQs. I've known sheep that could outwit you, but you think you're an intellectual don't you, ape?

Otto: Apes don't read philosophy.

Wanda: Yes, they do Otto, they just don't understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things here. Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not 'every man for himself,' and the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up. Now, you have just assaulted the one man who can keep you out of jail and make you rich. What are you going to do about it huh? What would an intellectual do? What would Plato do?

mikey_the_rat
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:03 AM
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11. ...
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tandot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:14 AM
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19. I was thinking the same thing...
didn't see that you already posted it. :hi:
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:07 AM
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13. The List of his summer reading
http://www.booktv.org/misc/081706_bush.asp

Why nobody from the media has called bush on this bull shit is beyond me.
This is NO DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THE OLD COMMUNIST COUNTRIES WOULD
DO TO PIMP THEIR LEADERS . i.e. Kim Ill of N. Korea shooting a 55 over 18 holes
of golf or Stalin flying in to liberate Berlin at the end of WW II.
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Saphire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:10 AM
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14. there is a series of books called "Shakespeare for Kids", maybe
pickles bought him a set?
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:11 AM
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17. see poll here
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tandot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:12 AM
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18. He probably barely made it through "Shakespeare for Dummies"
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:16 AM
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22. The idiot can barely read a teleprompter
Anyone who thinks that moron can sit down and read something more advanced than "Hop on Pop" is a moron as well.
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soup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:21 AM
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24. Yep. Three Shakespeares, no less.
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Amy6627 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:22 AM
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25. You said homo! tahee tahee -- signed GW
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rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:26 AM
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26. Sure he read Shakespeare, but
are there any other words that he reads?
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DeeDeeNY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:28 AM
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27. He says he read "3 Shakespeares"
Somehow I don't think that if a person actually read three
plays by Shakespeare they would refer to it as "3 Shakespeares".
But he is full of surprises. He does after all have "ecelectic" tastes.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:56 AM
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28. I said it earlier
I would have preferred that he had read (cumulative) 60 books PRIOR TO HIM BECOMING PRESIDENT than the 60 or so comic books he's read since January ...
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:59 AM
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29. Was this on the epileptic reading list he talked about?
:rofl:
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Beelzebud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 12:00 PM
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30. If you gave 1000 George Bushs 1000 typewriters....
Eventually they would be able to write My Pet Goat.
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chat_noir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 12:03 PM
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31. Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare
There, you just read 3 Shakespeares, too.

:toast:
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tandot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 12:06 PM
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32. You are right. I just read 3 Shakespeares in just a few seconds...
I am a genius :)
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 12:08 PM
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33. Yeah, he read them. Did he understand them?
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 12:08 PM
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34. Yeah, I Heard Him Say He Reads "ekel-lectic" Range of Books
when he said that vs eclectic, you knew he was lying and an idiot. And notice how he evaded answering the question about "The Stranger". Duh!!!
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 12:10 PM
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35. The "Classic Comics" versions don't count George
and Mel Gibson's "Hamlet" should not be viewed at all.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:02 PM
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36. It gives his reThug biographers something to praise him for.
I doubt if he could pass any high school English teacher's Shakespeare course.

There are, of course, other books which are more within Dubya's zone.

"Color Frosty's scarf green."
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Drewskie Donating Member (465 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:16 PM
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37. And Falstaff is his favorite character I'm sure...
they've so much in common.
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-30-06 11:25 PM
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38. He read TWO Shakespeares, mind you.
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opiate69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 12:07 AM
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39. Apes don't read...
Otto: Apes don't read Nietzsche.
Wanda: Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it.

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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 12:17 AM
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40. Are we talking "My Pet Falstaff" or "Othello for Dummies"?
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-31-06 12:29 AM
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41. He's a liar
You noticed how he dodged the interviewer's questions about what the book was about when he was asked about Camus? He never read that book. He's a fucking liar.
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