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To: Albion Wilde

Spoken by Dick the Butcher, who wanted to foment lawlessness and insurrection.

Billy the Bard meant it as a compliment to lawyers.


28 posted on 01/16/2014 7:57:12 AM PST by Ready4Freddy
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To: Ready4Freddy
Spoken by Dick the Butcher, who wanted to foment lawlessness and insurrection. Billy the Bard meant it as a compliment to lawyers.

Interesting devolution into a reversal in pop usage, thanks! Kind of like the First Amendment arguments for "freedom from religion" instead of "freedom of religion"...

30 posted on 01/16/2014 8:09:01 AM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: Ready4Freddy
Spoken by Dick the Butcher, who wanted to foment lawlessness and insurrection.

Billy the Bard meant it as a compliment to lawyers.

Blah, blah, blah context.

Still a great line, because we could certainly do with a hell of a lot less of them.

31 posted on 01/16/2014 11:34:32 AM PST by zeugma (Is it evil of me to teach my bird to say "here kitty, kitty"?)
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