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What would the first line of YOUR opus be? (Vanity)

Posted on 07/03/2012 12:49:54 PM PDT by Luna

There have been some dull opuses here at FR. It’s no wonder they’re met with such contempt and ridicule by other Freepers. No one likes boring. We like to be entertained, for crying out loud! Opus people, if you’re going to write an opus, make it worth our while.


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To: gzzimlich
Until they ban sidewalks you can still grind a nice point on that knife!

You really need a tater cannon too, is PVC pipe still legal?

51 posted on 07/03/2012 1:29:14 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: HerrBlucher

LOL! The more drama the better!


52 posted on 07/03/2012 1:29:58 PM PDT by Luna (Evil will not triumph. God is at the helm.)
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To: Luna; 21stCenturion; 75thOVI; Abathar; alarm rider; albee; Alice au Wonderland; Amityschild; ...
"Dear Penthouse Forvm -- I never thought this would happen to me, but...."


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53 posted on 07/03/2012 1:30:51 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Pretty sad, huh? When even your opus gets pulled.

Kind of like failing trying to commit suicide...lol

54 posted on 07/03/2012 1:31:34 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio - http://www.istandwithrush.org/)
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To: Luna
Shouldn’t the question be, “Why have there been so many opuses?”
55 posted on 07/03/2012 1:32:24 PM PDT by wolfcreek (A closed eye mentality is the reason for our current reality)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Who left this time? I must have missed the screen door slamming on their butt!

guru. You didn't miss anything. It was so lame it got pulled.

56 posted on 07/03/2012 1:33:46 PM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (If Obama was any more thin skinned, he'd have a receptacle end: Dennis Miller)
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To: Luna

“And now, in keeping with Channel 40’s policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you’re about to see another first — an attempted suicide.”


57 posted on 07/03/2012 1:35:39 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: Luna
"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God."

-The American Crisis, December 23, 1776, Thomas Paine

-PJ

58 posted on 07/03/2012 1:37:03 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
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To: wolfcreek
Shouldn’t the question be, “Why have there been so many opuses?”

Wouldn't that be be "so many opi"?

59 posted on 07/03/2012 1:39:31 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Luna
The first line of my opus would be as follows:

"The snow-whipped landscape went on for as far as the eye could see. Morgan shouldered his M-16, knowing that there only was twelve minutes left until the boomer arrived. Soon, the ice began to crackle, then pop, then roar, as the submarine began to surface through the ice pack. Help had arrived at last."

60 posted on 07/03/2012 1:39:38 PM PDT by Lazamataz (People who resort to Godwin's Law are just like Hitler.)
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To: All

LOL!! These are great opus lines, everyone! Thanks! :)


61 posted on 07/03/2012 1:41:37 PM PDT by Luna (Evil will not triumph. God is at the helm.)
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To: Luna

An “opus”? Judging from the comments, “opus” must be the term for a farewell statement.


62 posted on 07/03/2012 1:41:37 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Like the dork from last night who was so boring I quit reading before it even got 50 responses and there were more than 300.

If you are going to die quietly, then die quietly.....


63 posted on 07/03/2012 1:41:55 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live thnrough it anyway)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Beautiful.


64 posted on 07/03/2012 1:46:42 PM PDT by Luna (Evil will not triumph. God is at the helm.)
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To: cripplecreek

What?!!!! Dang man. I always liked you.

Now?

Good riddance ......

/S (obviously)

LOL


65 posted on 07/03/2012 1:48:13 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live thnrough it anyway)
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To: Luna; martin_fierro

Wild horses couldn’t drag me away from here.

You couldn’t pay me enough to leave.

Go away and leave me be.

Oh wait... An opus? [cough]


66 posted on 07/03/2012 1:49:12 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Vendome

There was a thread started the other day by a noob who claimed to be a muslim conservative.

I don’t know if he survived.


67 posted on 07/03/2012 1:50:51 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Luna

So long and thanks for all the fish...


68 posted on 07/03/2012 1:51:14 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Luna

Nobody likes me. Everybody hates me. Guess I’ll go eat some worms....


69 posted on 07/03/2012 1:51:30 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: M Kehoe

LOL

Like a video game.

You should have added the obligatory “/s” at the end.

Then again, if people can’t determine satire and sarcasm they shouldn’t be here literally and figuratively.


70 posted on 07/03/2012 1:52:31 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live thnrough it anyway)
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To: Luna

“It was a dark and stormy night.”


71 posted on 07/03/2012 1:54:06 PM PDT by HiJinx (He who controls the water, controls life.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

OMG! That’s heeLarryUs!!!!

If you read his postings another Freeper said he doubted Unkus would be here another month.

Too funny


72 posted on 07/03/2012 1:56:25 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live thnrough it anyway)
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To: PT57A

You owe me a new keyboard.
LOL


73 posted on 07/03/2012 1:56:31 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty ("War." Andrew Breitbart)
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To: going hot

When he wrote the first opus, his screen name was “one who knows.” Later, after he came crawling back, he adopted the screen name OWK.

I don’t believe the original can ever be topped. I have no idea if it is still available anywhere.


74 posted on 07/03/2012 1:56:56 PM PDT by The Man
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To: 21twelve

That’s a classic.


75 posted on 07/03/2012 2:00:06 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty ("War." Andrew Breitbart)
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To: Luna

The motorcyclist roared down the freeway at a ridiculous speed. He looked ridiculous in the duck costume that he wore to the Mardi Gras parade. Getting the work permit from the county took a ridiculous amount of time. He bought one that flips. A broad limb he bought. He saw his running socks at the bottom.


76 posted on 07/03/2012 2:01:32 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch ( if you love, you will not condemn, and if you condemn, you cannot love)
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To: Luna

“Nobody knows (dramatic pause) the trouble I’ve seen.......”

and then it goes on to list all the trouble seen throughout the agrieved Freeper’s tenure at FR.


77 posted on 07/03/2012 2:03:54 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty ("War." Andrew Breitbart)
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To: Luna
The best wasn't even an opus, it was a response to an opus:

Ban me to asshole!

78 posted on 07/03/2012 2:04:14 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Proud to have been beat up and shot by the late Paul Gomez. RIP, 'Gnomez'.)
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To: Vendome
8^)

5.56mm

79 posted on 07/03/2012 2:05:07 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: M Kehoe
LOL!

Now that I went all Carl Drega yesterday....

it may be a while 'til I post again

80 posted on 07/03/2012 2:05:33 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Luna

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=485153133371329904&hl=en

(”About Last Night”, 1986. Screenplay adapted by Tim Kazurinsky from SNL and Denise DeClue, from the 1974 play “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” by David Mamet, so the gloriously-filthy-language warning is implied. You have been warned. You’ll have to watch pretty much the entire thing to hear the line, but you’ll know it when you hear it.)


81 posted on 07/03/2012 2:06:38 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Lazamataz

“Good night. I expect more respect tomorrow.”

- DannyH


82 posted on 07/03/2012 2:08:23 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: Luna

“In the Beginning, there was nothibug, which was ‘nothing’ spelled wrong ...”


83 posted on 07/03/2012 2:09:48 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Steyn: "One can argue about whose fault it is, but not ... whose responsibility it is: it's his")
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To: Luna

“When Dr. Ron Paul is President, you’ll all be sorry.”


84 posted on 07/03/2012 2:10:17 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: Luna
I'm a bit embarrassed to admit I already wrote an opus many years ago. It was the days before 9/11 and the place was crawling with Nazis (they were getting booted off one by one, but there were always plenty posting). I ventured back to FR on 9/11 and have been here ever since, though there were anti-Semites here for a long time after that date as well.

I have no plans to write another opus and sincerely hope I never feel like leaving FR again (and sincerely hope I don't get banned for my misfit opinions), but if I were to do it again today . . . hmm . . . I'm not sure.

Wait a minute . . . I've got an idea . . .

Mashiach HaMelekh is crowned King in Jerusalem and it's not You Know Who. And I say:

NYAH!!!

85 posted on 07/03/2012 2:10:31 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Luna

“Ah, to hell with it...”


86 posted on 07/03/2012 2:10:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Luna
Hmm...

If you are reading this you already know that the rogue planet is headed directly toward Earth and that every man, woman, child, wombat, and weird-looking bug (hereinafter WLB) is going to die from the complete disintegration of the planet and the subsequent loss of oxygen and water to the vast, implacable vacuum of space. I have only a few seconds before the Mother Ship arrives to beam me off to my home world, but before it does I want to leave the information necessary for you to save yourselves. It's really simple - all you have to do is

87 posted on 07/03/2012 2:12:39 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Luna
In the immortal words of Curly Joe Brosius:


88 posted on 07/03/2012 2:14:27 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
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To: The Man

“Juan Hoonoze”, as I saw him called once.

Wow...talk about a name I hadn’t thought of in years....


89 posted on 07/03/2012 2:14:50 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: Responsibility2nd

That was one the most pathetic opus’ I have ever seen. it was boring and I never got to my own posted response because it was so boring.

Did it get pulled for a lack of entertainment? /S


90 posted on 07/03/2012 2:16:05 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live thnrough it anyway)
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To: real saxophonist
The best wasn't even an opus, it was a response to an opus:

Ban me to asshole!

Lol! I remember that well!

91 posted on 07/03/2012 2:19:22 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: cripplecreek

I remember that. I actually welcomed him nicely.

Didn’t want his preordained genetic disposition to go off like a bomb.


92 posted on 07/03/2012 2:21:19 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live thnrough it anyway)
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To: Luna
Considering Independence Day is tomorrow, why not copy the greatest Opus letter of all time:

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one person to dissolve the political bands which have connected him with a website and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle him, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that he should declare the causes which impel him to the separation.

And them I express the outrages which King JimRob the First has thrown against me including:

"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Moderators without the Consent of our legislatures."

"he has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Viking Kitten Savages whose known rule of Zot, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."

93 posted on 07/03/2012 2:24:01 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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To: MileHi
Good afternoon. I hope you are doing well.

Now that I went all Carl Drega yesterday....

I remember that story. What did you do? Not that you have to tell me...

5.56mm

94 posted on 07/03/2012 2:26:19 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: mnehring
"Oh freddled gruntbuggly/thy micturations are to me/As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes. And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"

-PJ

95 posted on 07/03/2012 2:29:29 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
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To: Jim Robinson

lolol

Ping me when you post that, mm-kay?

On second thought.... If you do post that - there’ll be no way to read it. This place will be no place without you.


96 posted on 07/03/2012 2:39:33 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Vendome

No, it got pulled because...

Well, you better ask the mod why it got pulled. I’d better not say.


97 posted on 07/03/2012 2:41:42 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Luna

By the time... I get to Phoenix... you’ll be reading....


98 posted on 07/03/2012 2:44:22 PM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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To: Zionist Conspirator; real saxophonist

Ahhhh what fun.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2845448/replies?c=41


99 posted on 07/03/2012 2:45:58 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: cripplecreek

We used to have a FReeper who lived in Iran. He had interesting comments about the Iranian military. Can’t remember his handle now, but haven’t seen any posts from him in years.


100 posted on 07/03/2012 2:49:03 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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