The War Stories Wiki - new forum posts http://warstories.wikidot.com/forum/start Posts in forums of the site "The War Stories Wiki" - Telling all about your gaming nights http://warstories.wikidot.com/forum/t-98570#post-290558 http://warstories.wikidot.com/forum/t-98570/rape-of-the-lock#post-290558 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:36:13 +0000 quarkstomper 164518 Yeah. It was a poem by the 18th Century English poet Alexander Pope parodying classical epics. In Pope's version, a rascal snips a lock of hair from a beautiful lady, ignoring a firestorm of angst and strife in the Court.

Of course, Alexander Pope isn't exactly well-known in America either. Heck, I'm not even sure which century he lived in and I'm the guy who brought him up!

Wait. No. He was definitely 18th century, because he wrote a famous couplet about Sir Isaac Newton. (Pope specialized in heroic couplets):

Nature and Nature's Laws lay hidden in night;
God said: "Let Newton be!" and all was light.

To which a 20th Century wag penned the following sequel:

It didn't last long; the Devil said, "Ho!
Let Einstein be!" And restored the status quo!

Another of Pope's couplets adorned the collar of the dog which the King of England kept as a pet at his palace at the Kew Gardens:

I am His Majesty's dog at Kew;
And may I ask, whose dog are you?


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Unfortunately, English-language literature isn't exactly my specialty…


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Forum thread: Rape Of The Lock ]]> http://warstories.wikidot.com/forum/t-98570#post-287272 The Rape of the Lock http://warstories.wikidot.com/forum/t-98570/rape-of-the-lock#post-287272 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:37:27 +0000 quarkstomper 164518 And a cookie to anyone who knows why I chose that particular title for the story.


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Forum thread: Rape Of The Lock ]]> http://warstories.wikidot.com/forum/t-95599#post-279259 Splitting Hairs http://warstories.wikidot.com/forum/t-95599/category#post-279259 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:10:13 +0000 quarkstomper 164518 The problem I have with most of my Memorable Quotes is that they require a certain amount of set-up in order to make sense; which puts them more along the lines of a War Story with a punchline.

So I put my story of The Hundred Year Old Indian under "War Stories" instead of "Quotes", even though it basicly is the set-up for a quote. I also took the liberty of creating a category Memorable Encounters, because it didn't exactly fit the existing ones. Perhaps just "Encounters" might be better.


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