Friday, February 19, 2010

Vive Le Revolution!

Well, today was Revolution Day Numero Deux.
And boy was it satisfying...
Mrs. Vevle was talking about all the gruesome ways they executed people. I knew about the guillotine, and swords, pitchforks, what have you, but there is one style of execution I had never even PONDERED before.
That, my dear readers, would be; Death by stale Baguette.
That's right, they killed people with BREAD.
Baguettes are hard to rip apart in general, and imagining what they're like when they're a week old is like the equivalent of a baseball bat.
And I can't imagine beating someone to death with a loaf of bread would be a quick and painless death.
Much like killing someone with a butter knife....
Yuck.
And that's when Mrs. Vevle goes into her 'I'm going to mentally terrify you for the rest of your life' monologue. It went something like this:
"You live out in the countryside, and you have a small one-story house, you have a barn with a couple cows, and some chickens, and a horse if you're lucky. Your family is asleep on the floor, and you can hear the mob in the city. The noises are getting louder, and louder, and louder. You know that they're coming for you, the house next to yours is burned to the ground, you know what they want. Because if its not 'Vive Le Revolution!' you. Are. Dead. Its unacceptable, you are now an enemy of the revolution.
Now they're inside your house, and they're after your family, they're after your children. They are KILLING your children right in front of you. And its not quick and easy, they didn't always use swords, sometimes they would use rocks, and butter knives, and pitchforks."
I was disturbed, to say the least, but it was the best World History class ever, ever, ever, in the history of World History classes.
Short of Henry the eighth day....
Then in Lit. & Comp. we got to watch Act 1 of 'Romeo and Juliet', but not the version with Leonardo DiCaprio, the 60's version of it, with Olivia Hussey, who was also in that Christmas horror movie I mentioned 'Black Christmas'.
I liked it, for some odd reason. I regret to say however that, something in said play has swept the school like plague in England.
Its the line in R&J right when the play starts, when Sampson and Gregory bite their thumbs at the Montagues.
Now everyone is biting their thumbs at everyone and quoting the play.
All day its:
"Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?"
"I do bite my thumb, sir"
"But do you bite your thumb at US, sir?"
I love it, personally, but I really do wish people would say the line that comes right after that.
"You....Lie!"

Beatles: It's been a long long long time, How could I ever have lost you, When I loved you. It took a long long long time, Now I'm so happy I found you

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