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# seeing as we are posting ditties
The invention
of weights and measures
Makes robbery easier.
Signing contracts, settings seals,
Makes robbery more sure.
Teaching love and duty
Provides a fitting language
With which to prove that robbery
Is really for the general good.
A poor man must swing
For stealing a belt buckle
But if a rich man steals a whole state
He is acclaimed
As statesman of the year.

--Chuang Tzu
(pluke in a giant mechanical pickle, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 3:46, archived)
# "We" are not posting ditties.
You are.

b3ta.com/board/4477747
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 10 Apr 2005, 3:47, archived)
# constantinoplol
my dear fellow, i'm nearly as long in the tooth as you
(pluke in a giant mechanical pickle, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 3:53, archived)
# Plol?
Typo?
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 10 Apr 2005, 3:55, archived)
# 733t language or something
is in rofflecopter, lollerskates etc
(pluke in a giant mechanical pickle, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 3:57, archived)
# Whatever.
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 10 Apr 2005, 3:58, archived)
# just rolling with the punches
smile, it could be worse, and it has been 50 minutes since someone last posted a proper picture. I'm not a thread waister normally , promise
(pluke in a giant mechanical pickle, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 4:00, archived)
# waister?
Is that l33tsp33k too?

I'm quite fluffy really.
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 10 Apr 2005, 4:01, archived)
# well b3ta speak...
bastardisation of this
(pluke in a giant mechanical pickle, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 4:04, archived)
# candy is dandy
but liquor is quicker

and

the cow is of the bovine ilk
one end is moo, the other, milk

Parsley
Is gharsley.

-ogden nash
(I helped save b3ta! abandonnship, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 3:47, archived)
# My god
It's like he's known me all my life
(I helped save b3ta! Brown cow, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 3:48, archived)
# he's feckin' great
look 'im up
(I helped save b3ta! abandonnship, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 3:50, archived)
# I wish I was
/Rude
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 10 Apr 2005, 3:56, archived)
# but you are rude
(I helped save b3ta! abandonnship, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 3:59, archived)
# How dare you!
The only rude word I know is tits.
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 10 Apr 2005, 4:00, archived)
# What about poppycock?
(I helped save b3ta! abandonnship, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 4:01, archived)
# Stocking tops.
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 10 Apr 2005, 4:01, archived)
# Flicking cops?
(I helped save b3ta! abandonnship, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 4:03, archived)
# Thanks,
I'll take a dozen.
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 10 Apr 2005, 4:07, archived)
# Ogden nash
is trash.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 4:18, archived)
# bwuh?
(I helped save b3ta! haylith has been gone a long, long time, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 3:49, archived)
# anarchism from the 3rd century BC
go wikipedia go
(pluke in a giant mechanical pickle, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 3:54, archived)
# Chuang Tsu is great
but I tried to read larger sections of The Inner Chapters and it just made me want to smack him. He sometimes took a little too long to get to the point. But reading the selections "translated" by Thomas Merton was an experience of it's own. Especially the one about the Breath of Nature.
(I helped save b3ta! hanke murphy, I'm a mess, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 3:54, archived)
# yeah i've heard he's not the best translation
but sadly it's the only i have. I'd love to read it in madarin but only learnt the 'pictive' for moutain, man and inside
(pluke in a giant mechanical pickle, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 3:58, archived)
# no, no, I just meant it's not really a translation from the original Chinese
Merton's is the best I've read so far. If you know a better one I'd be eager to check it out, though
(I helped save b3ta! hanke murphy, I'm a mess, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 4:01, archived)
# I've only read about it on here
They don't seem to hold merton in very high regard

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuang_Zi

But i've not read the others either
(pluke in a giant mechanical pickle, Sun 10 Apr 2005, 4:07, archived)