Monday, October 01, 2007

What's wrong with the Statue of Liberty

From "Seinfeld". Says it all, I think....
 
 
 
One thing I love about living in New York is it's every different type of person piled one on top of the other.  I am for open immigration, but that sign we have in the front of the Statue of Liberty, "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses."  Can't we just say, "Hey, the door's open.  We'll take whoever you got."  Do we have to specify "The wretched refuse?"  Why not just say, "Give us the unhappy, the sad, the slow, the ugly, the people that can't drive, people that have trouble merging, if they can't stay in their lane, if they don't signal, they can't parallel park, if they're sneezing, if they're stuffed up, if they have bad penmanship, if they don't return calls, if they have dandruff, food between their teeth, if they have bad credit, if they have no credit, missed a spot shaving...  In other words, any dysfunctional, defective slob that you can somehow cattle prod onto a wagon, send them over.  We want them."
 
 
 
 
General Kapact, Epetai Abukoff
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VodleH Class Heavy Battlecruiser, Black Fleet Variant
"...laughing, undefeated..."
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Founder, Klingon Order of Scribes
Klingon Black Fleet
 

 
Ballad of House Abukoff:
 
Yet if my line should die,
it dies with its teeth in the enemy's throat,
it dies with its name on the enemy's tongue.
For just as mere life is not victory,
mere death is not defeat;
And in the next world I shall kill the foe a thousand times,
laughing,
undefeated.
 
(from John Ford's "The Final Reflection")
 
 
 

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