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Re: HisStory Quiz
by Rogue (Rogue@skew.org)
on Apr 08, 2002 - 06:25 AM
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Too many people forget that history books and news reports are works of reality-based fiction and meant to play the public like a four-dollar fiddle. What amuses me is that the very word "History" is like a contraction of "his" and "story", telling you all you need to know about it, like somebody decided to name it that just to see who gets the joke. Then there's Robert Half International, or "Rob Half" if you think about it...look around, this stuff is everywhere like Savoir Faire. Look up people's names on babelfish sometime for fun, like Norman Schwarzkopf (black head)... Etymology can be your friend, and points the way to the grand joke that is society.
Some things are obvious opposites, too, and their joke is in the irony of their names. For instance, "credit" as in consumer credit, credit cards, etc....they're not about credit at all, but debit - in the spirit of the Ministry of Peace in a book I once read that was double-plus good.
"Networks at work keeping people calm, you know they went after King when he spoke out on Vietnam..." -RATM, "Wake Up"
What was the price on his head? (I think I heard a shot!)
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