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IrishAlkey Wrote:It's "karaoke", stupid.
this is why I never shoot pool with you, you take your geeky obsessions too seriously.
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plus he's a great pool player.
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My handicap is a 6 and the highest you can go is a 7!
I OWN YOU!
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How are you at Ping Pong ?
Now theres a competative sport!
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Rooner Wrote:Well you see, Marie Antoinette was so clueless to the plight of her subjects, that when her cabinet told her people were starving, she said to "let them eat cake" because she was under the assumption that everyone lived the good life. So it was off with her head for that shit. I hope I helped.
Quote:We're not entirely sure who said "Let them eat cake," but we can tell you that it wasn't Marie Antoinette. This flippant phrase about consuming pastry is commonly attributed to the frivolous queen in the days leading up to the French Revolution. Supposedly, she spoke these words upon hearing how the peasantry had no bread to eat. But biographers and historians have found no evidence that Marie uttered these words or anything like them.
Our old pal Cecil Adams of The Straight Dope explains the quotation was first written by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Confessions. Actually, Rousseau wrote "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," which essentially means "let them eat a type of egg-based bread" (not quite cake, but still a bit extravagant). Rousseau claimed that "a great princess" told the peasants to eat cake/brioche when she heard they had no bread.
But Rousseau wrote this in early 1766, when Marie Antoinette was only 10 years old, still living in her native Austria and not yet married to King Louis XVI. So it's highly unlikely that Marie uttered the pompous phrase. Perhaps Rousseau invented them to illustrate the divide between royalty and the poor -- which is certainly how the phrase has been used ever since.
However, "Let them eat brioche" isn't quite as cold a sentiment as you might imagine. At the time, French law required bakers to sell fancy breads at the same low price as the plain breads if they ran out of the latter. The goal was to prevent bakers from making very little cheap bread and then profiting off the fancy, expensive bread. Whoever really said "Let them eat brioche" may have meant that the bakery laws should be enforced so the poor could eat the fancy bread if there wasn't enough plain bread to go around.
A recent biographer claims that "Let them eat cake" was actually spoken by Marie-Therese, wife of France's Louis XIV, 100 years before Marie Antoinette, but we couldn't find anything online to corroborate this. Ultimately, we will probably never know who uttered this infamous phrase.
Fucking idiot asshole. Get your facts straight. Dumbfuck
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The Painter Wrote:Rooner Wrote:Well you see, Marie Antoinette was so clueless to the plight of her subjects, that when her cabinet told her people were starving, she said to "let them eat cake" because she was under the assumption that everyone lived the good life. So it was off with her head for that shit. I hope I helped.
Quote:We're not entirely sure who said "Let them eat cake," but we can tell you that it wasn't Marie Antoinette. This flippant phrase about consuming pastry is commonly attributed to the frivolous queen in the days leading up to the French Revolution. Supposedly, she spoke these words upon hearing how the peasantry had no bread to eat. But biographers and historians have found no evidence that Marie uttered these words or anything like them.
Our old pal Cecil Adams of The Straight Dope explains the quotation was first written by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Confessions. Actually, Rousseau wrote "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," which essentially means "let them eat a type of egg-based bread" (not quite cake, but still a bit extravagant). Rousseau claimed that "a great princess" told the peasants to eat cake/brioche when she heard they had no bread.
But Rousseau wrote this in early 1766, when Marie Antoinette was only 10 years old, still living in her native Austria and not yet married to King Louis XVI. So it's highly unlikely that Marie uttered the pompous phrase. Perhaps Rousseau invented them to illustrate the divide between royalty and the poor -- which is certainly how the phrase has been used ever since.
However, "Let them eat brioche" isn't quite as cold a sentiment as you might imagine. At the time, French law required bakers to sell fancy breads at the same low price as the plain breads if they ran out of the latter. The goal was to prevent bakers from making very little cheap bread and then profiting off the fancy, expensive bread. Whoever really said "Let them eat brioche" may have meant that the bakery laws should be enforced so the poor could eat the fancy bread if there wasn't enough plain bread to go around.
A recent biographer claims that "Let them eat cake" was actually spoken by Marie-Therese, wife of France's Louis XIV, 100 years before Marie Antoinette, but we couldn't find anything online to corroborate this. Ultimately, we will probably never know who uttered this infamous phrase.
Fucking idiot asshole. Get your facts straight. Dumbfuck
Not all of us were there to witness it you old bastard.
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yeah, cecil adams of 'the straight dope', is a reliable source.
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the painter returning could be the beginning of the cdih renissance period we've all been waiting for!!!
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Keyser Soze Wrote:the painter returning could be the beginning of the cdih renissance period we've all been waiting for!!!
I hope he stays, we've been looking to dump his curmudgeonly ass off of BP for a while now. Its your turn to take care of Grandpa.
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send us your tired, your poor....
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the painter is an old dude?
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if the yes votes win, doug has to kill himself.
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And if the no votes win, will you kill yourself?
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of course not, but it warms my heart that you care.
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If I had a heart, rat.
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