[repost] [j at uriah.heep.sax.de: For Approval: The beer-ware license]
Russ Nelson
nelson at crynwr.com
Sat Jan 12 07:26:18 UTC 2008
John Cowan writes:
> Russ Nelson scripsit:
> > John Cowan writes:
> > > Russ Nelson scripsit:
> > >
> > > > Somewhere, there is a playwright writing a play about a king, who is
> > > > saying "The first thing we do, let's kill all the programmers."
> > >
> > > A king, eh? That's either a complete brain fart (look it up) or
> > > extraordinarily subtle. Knowing you, I'd believe either theory.
> >
> > Henry VI wasn't a king??
>
> He was. But the person who speaks that line is Dick the Butcher, one of
> the advisors of Jack Cade, who thinks he is going to make himself king,
> at least nominbut ally in the common people's interest -- all the while
> he is nothing but a pawn of the Duke of York.
Oh, well, in my case, it was the playwright who was saying the line,
not the character. Look at the punctuation.
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