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How to Wreck a Bureaucracy, in Three Simple Verses by Rudyard Kipling - ECSNorway - 07-24-2012
Allegedly Singing Voice by Leslie Fish
Quote:Rome never looks where she treads,--
Always her heavy hooves fall
On our stomachs, our hearts or our heads;
And Rome never heeds when we bawl.
Her sentries pass on – that is all,
And we gather behind them in hordes,
And plot to reconquer the Wall,
With only our tongues for our swords.
We are the Little Folk – we!
Too little to love or to hate.
Leave us alone and you'll see
How we can drag down the Great!
We are the worm in the wood!
We are the rot in the root!
We are the germ in the blood!
We are the thorn in the foot!
Mistletoe killing an oak –
Rats gnawing cables in two –
Moths making holes in a cloak –
How they must love what they do!
Yes – and we Little Folk too,
We are as busy as they –
Working our works out of view –
Watch, and you'll see it some day!
No indeed! We are not strong,
But we know Peoples that are.
Yes, and we'll guide them along,
To smash and destroy you in War!
We shall be slaves just the same?
Yes, we have always been slaves,
But you – you will die of the shame,
And then we shall dance on your graves!
We are the Little Folk – we!
Too little to love or to hate.
Leave us alone and you'll see
How we can drag down the Great!
We are the worm in the wood!
We are the rot in the root!
We are the germ in the blood!
We are the thorn in the foot!
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
- Bob Schroeck - 07-24-2012
Another of Leslie's Kipling songs. I'll have to think about how to quantify it, but yeah, the idea is good.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- itsune9tl - 07-27-2012
After reading through the lyrics, I was thinking about T. Prachet's Wee Free Men, possibly as a summons as the WFM tend to be a bit sticky after they get into things...
- robkelk - 07-28-2012
Manytales00 Wrote:After reading through the lyrics, I was thinking about T. Prachet's Wee Free Men, possibly as a summons as the WFM tend to be a bit sticky after they get into things...What do you mean, "after"?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- itsune9tl - 08-04-2012
robkelk Wrote:I meant Doug, not the WFM.Manytales00 Wrote:After reading through the lyrics, I was thinking about T. Prachet's Wee Free Men, possibly as a summons as the WFM tend to be a bit sticky after they get into things...
What do you mean, "after"?
[In] some realities WFM are both a Class 6 Biohazzard. They use a Tac -head just to keep them from spreading.