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Rudyard Kipling's 'IF'.
youtube ^ | bakeneko

Posted on 01/01/2021 11:02:45 PM PST by bakeneko

In these times, lots of personal posts.

Michael Caine recites Rudyard Kipling's IF. I just found this very inspiring.


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1 posted on 01/01/2021 11:02:45 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: bakeneko

“If” is fantastic, but Kipling’s “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” is so incredibly appropriate for these strange times.


2 posted on 01/01/2021 11:06:03 PM PST by JennysCool (2020: Aging “world socialists” promoting their ideology by scaring the crap out of gullible people.)
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To: bakeneko

Lin Wood just posted the same poem to twitter 2 minutes ago:

https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1345267377601187840


3 posted on 01/01/2021 11:18:04 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: bakeneko
I see your IF and raise you The Second Coming:

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

4 posted on 01/01/2021 11:23:55 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: JennysCool

So is The Beginnings.

Substitute “Deplorables” for each instance of “English.”


5 posted on 01/02/2021 1:23:53 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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6 posted on 01/02/2021 2:13:10 AM PST by caww ( )
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Bookmark


7 posted on 01/02/2021 2:35:30 AM PST by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump. Prayers for PDJT and his loyal supporters.)
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To: bakeneko
IF you can keep your head when all
About you are losing theirs ...

Perhaps you have misread the situation.
8 posted on 01/02/2021 3:55:26 AM PST by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: caww

bump


9 posted on 01/02/2021 4:32:53 AM PST by tom paine 2
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To: bakeneko

I have IF nicely framed on the back wall above the toilet for my guy buddies and myself - for contemplation.


10 posted on 01/02/2021 6:34:11 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: bakeneko

Not so many of those Freemasons around any more ...


11 posted on 01/02/2021 8:33:59 AM PST by RideForever (We were born to be tested)
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When the Saxons began to hate.

5.56mm


12 posted on 01/02/2021 8:37:59 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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