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Thread #167839   Message #4052101
Posted By: Helen
12-May-20 - 04:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: In Praise of the Turnip
Subject: RE: BS: In Praise of the Turnip
Yes, gillymor, I'm fairly sure I first saw the name Twitler used by someone else here so your copyright claim would have been disputed.

I like it because it says:
* twit = a foolish annoying person.
* Twitter = a foolish annoying person endlessly annoying a huge number of other people instead of dealing with real life in the real world.
* Hitler = someone who misused his power to make a huge number of people's lives miserable and who also created the situation which ended a huge number of people's lives and the fallout from all of that still hurts people living today.

But I tend to refer to him as Trumpty Dumpty, who sat on a great big wall and then had a great big fall, and all the country's horses and and all the country's men and women, couldn't put Trumpty together again.

That's my wish.

I watched a TV documentary this week called Assholes, based on the book by Aaron James, Assholes: A Theory.

Very relevant. And while they did not mention Trumpty-Dumpty by name, the references were subtle yet clear.