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#13
06-10-2009, 07:50 PM
This thread had already had me thinking of Gilbert and Sullivan, specifically the Pirates of Penzance where it's revealed that the pirates in question are Members of Parliament.

However, I'm now reminded of the Lord High Executioner's aria from The Mikado which includes on the list of folks to be summarily executed:

"The idiot who praises with enthusiastic tone

All centuries but this and every country but his own..."
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll
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Pirates in Parliment - by CattyNebulart - 06-09-2009, 05:56 AM
[No subject] - by Ayiekie - 06-09-2009, 05:34 PM
[No subject] - by Foxboy - 06-09-2009, 06:28 PM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-09-2009, 09:32 PM
[No subject] - by Wiregeek - 06-09-2009, 09:49 PM
[No subject] - by Ayiekie - 06-10-2009, 02:44 AM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-10-2009, 05:21 AM
[No subject] - by Epsilon - 06-10-2009, 05:25 AM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-10-2009, 02:25 PM
[No subject] - by Epsilon - 06-10-2009, 02:51 PM
[No subject] - by ECSNorway - 06-10-2009, 07:01 PM
[No subject] - by Ayiekie - 06-10-2009, 07:34 PM
[No subject] - by Foxboy - 06-10-2009, 07:50 PM
[No subject] - by Ayiekie - 06-10-2009, 07:57 PM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-10-2009, 08:52 PM
[No subject] - by Ayiekie - 06-10-2009, 09:28 PM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-11-2009, 02:30 AM
[No subject] - by Ayiekie - 06-11-2009, 03:43 AM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-11-2009, 07:05 AM
[No subject] - by Ayiekie - 06-11-2009, 12:10 PM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-11-2009, 03:43 PM
[No subject] - by Ayiekie - 06-11-2009, 07:01 PM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-11-2009, 08:30 PM
[No subject] - by Ayiekie - 06-11-2009, 09:42 PM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-11-2009, 11:11 PM
[No subject] - by Ayiekie - 06-12-2009, 12:52 AM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-12-2009, 08:28 AM
[No subject] - by Ayiekie - 06-12-2009, 12:58 PM
[No subject] - by Wiregeek - 06-12-2009, 05:10 PM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-12-2009, 07:13 PM
Solutions - by Rev Dark - 06-12-2009, 09:20 PM
[No subject] - by Valles - 06-12-2009, 11:26 PM
[No subject] - by Wiregeek - 06-13-2009, 12:20 AM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-22-2009, 11:03 PM
[No subject] - by ECSNorway - 06-23-2009, 02:37 PM
[No subject] - by Epsilon - 06-23-2009, 02:59 PM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-23-2009, 05:50 PM
[No subject] - by Epsilon - 06-23-2009, 05:58 PM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-23-2009, 07:38 PM
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[No subject] - by Epsilon - 06-23-2009, 10:31 PM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-23-2009, 11:48 PM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-24-2009, 01:18 AM
[No subject] - by Epsilon - 06-24-2009, 01:23 AM
[No subject] - by Epsilon - 06-24-2009, 01:27 AM
[No subject] - by CattyNebulart - 06-24-2009, 06:17 AM

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