06 October 2003

HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME


It's worrisome when a truly divisive issue like, ahem, bisectuality dares to raise its ugly head, especially at election time.

(Note: Odd fact I never noticed before: T.S. Eliot, in The Waste Land, uses the spelling above instead of the more grammatically correct (and obvious) "HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME." Not "it is time," but "its time." Certainly changes the meaning of that line from "Hurry Up, Please, It's Time" to "Hurry Up | Please Its Time," as if Time itself needed to be pleased. But what is "it"? Ah, grammatical esoterica...).

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