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Maggie's avatar

I don't really care if Biden misquotes 70 year old movie he saw as a child with his brother. It reminded me of how my brothers and I will jokingly insulted each other with Three Amigos taunts all the time because it made an impression on us as kids, but we never got the insults quite right...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2FmDysvDr8

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I'm sitting in on a Zoom call (with nothing to do with what's being discussed), so I can't play your video clip. But when I read this, the first thing I thought was, "Son of a motherless goat."

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

Biden’s doing better than me. I remember the quotes of a movie (usually mangled), but for the life of me, I can never remember the movie they’re from....:)

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GlenD's avatar

You, too, huh. Don't you just want to strangle these jerks who can rattle off stanzas of poems by Kipling or paragraphs from some Dostoevsky doorstopper at the drop of a hat?

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R Mercer's avatar

I don't do Dostoevsky, I can do Kipling--I prefer Shakespeare. Dostoevsky, like most Russian literature is too boring and depressing. I can also give you long stretches of Tolkien and Star Trek, if necessary.

Never did make it all the way through War and Peace.

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Maggie's avatar

Here's a movie quote for you, sir! From Nicholas Cage in The Lord of War.

"Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists."

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GlenD's avatar

Agreed. Reading the Russian writers is where a true understanding of what the word "slog" really means. "Dr. Zhivago" wasn't too bad, but it really wasn't in the same category as the turn of the century tomes.

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R Mercer's avatar

I had a Russian literature course once. I somehow managed to avoid self-mutilation or suicide.

Horrible experience.

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Mary's avatar

Love the poetry. And Chekhov.

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Eva Seifert's avatar

I have a book of collections of Kipling's poems and short stories, as well as a copy of "Kim", which I haven't yet read. And it's a hard read (which I never thought it would be). The problem is most of his works are buried under his experiences of Britain in India, and if you only know a little about it, it's hard going. That said, his poem "If" should be emblazoned on every wannabe tough guys' walls (talking to you, Donnie, Ronnie, Mike, Tucker, Elon, et al).

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GlenD's avatar

Nearly everything I read of Kipling's works, I read when I was an adolescent. The works I remember most are "Gunga Din" and "The Jungle Book," in particular, the story of the mongoose "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi." My mom introduced me to Kipling, and to Mark Twain, urging me to read "Tom Sawyer and "Huckleberry Finn" all before I reached 6th grade.

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Edward Simpson's avatar

Indeed. If I could check off even half the criteria Kipling enumerates in his poem I would be a badass alpha-male.

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

Sometimes, but mostly I’m truly impressed...:)

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