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The first thing a good opus needs is that beginning line. The Opus Headline. Perhaps we can all come up with some real doozies in an effort to assist those who might be contemplating an opus in the future. After all, opus people, you have to consider your audience. You don’t want to bore them. “I am leaving Free Republic. Good bye,” is a headline that just doesn’t do it. It doesn’t excite us. It doesn’t pull us in. Go out in a wild, blaze of glory of hugh (yes, I meant hugh) proportions! Come up with something clever! Something amazing! Something that will get you a high score!

I kinda like this (picture Khan): “…from Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!”

Now that’s dramatic! That shows feeling!

So, Freepers, what would be the first line your opus (if you ever decide to write one)?

Disclaimer: this is for purely entertainment purposes to get away from the doom and gloom of the news for a while, and should not in any way be construed as a real opus.

1 posted on 07/03/2012 12:49:57 PM PDT by Luna
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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I have them in front of me,behind me and at my sides as drones fly over head...I have the poor bastards right where I want them......


103 posted on 07/03/2012 2:55:39 PM PDT by OL Hickory (Jesus and the American soldier-1 died for your soul/1 died for your freedom)
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To: Luna

I’ll see you on the other side.


104 posted on 07/03/2012 2:56:14 PM PDT by Random_User_250
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