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Mysterious ARG turns out to be an elaborate rickroll lysistrata at Metafilter:
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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P ` ere Brumoy's translation of Aristophanes; the Harangueses, or female orators, who take the Government upon themselves instead of their husbands, might be well applied to our politics: Lady Hester Pitt, Lady Caroline Fox, and the Duchess of Newcastle, should be the heroines of the piece; and with this advantage, that as lysistrata is forced to put on a beard, the Duchess has one ready grown.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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J. Carl Ganter: "No water, no sex" - New films take on not-so-subtle meanings when it comes to water 2008
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these black absent fathers - where do they all go? do they live alone, hang with their buddies, leave town? and how on earth do they keep persuading the women that they'll stick around? whatever they do, it's garbage. i recommend an instant and unanimous lysistrata-action by black women. but then, that's seems to be the last thing they want to do.
"As good as 'Idol' gets." Ann Althouse 2007
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lysistrata/t. rundgren ... maybe i will blog about lysistrata tomorrow, or soon.
Archive 2005-07-01 Annie 2005
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lysistrata/t. rundgren ... maybe i will blog about lysistrata tomorrow, or soon.
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J. Carl Ganter: "No water, no sex" - New films take on not-so-subtle meanings when it comes to water 2008
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lysistrata: Lets forgive him, how could anyone with his background know
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2012
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Balderdash 2009
john commented on the word lysistrata
As said on my first dumb typo'd version:
A play by Aristophanes, first produced in 411 B.C., in which the women of Greece refuse their husbands sex until they stop making war. Full text here
October 17, 2007
reesetee commented on the word lysistrata
Perfectly understandable. The other spelling puts one in mind of a casserole, and a person gets hungry doing all this typing.
October 17, 2007
uselessness commented on the word lysistrata
We read through this play in my Intro to Theatre class in college. Surprisingly raunchy, considering all the other ancient Greek texts I had read up till then were so academic and whatnot.
October 17, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word lysistrata
I have a feeling many, many Greek texts were what we think of as raunchy, but so few of them survived the centuries and centuries of people who felt they should destroy and/or censor such materials... It's the same with much of ancient art. You never see the ancient urns with pornographic art on them in school textbooks, implying that people in the past didn't have any sex or something. *ugh!*
October 17, 2007
reesetee commented on the word lysistrata
You mean to tell me that they did?
October 17, 2007
uselessness commented on the word lysistrata
Didn't they have storks in ancient Greece?
October 17, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word lysistrata
Hey, here's a question for you. How do you pronounce this name? I've heard it two ways: Lih-sis-STRAH-ta, and lye-SIS-trah-ta. And how do we know how it was pronounced in ancient Greece?
(uh-oh, I feel a Firesign Theatre list addition: "I've been to ancient Greece! Look at this grape!")
October 18, 2007
reesetee commented on the word lysistrata
I believe it's supposed to be pronounced lye-SIS-trah-ta. But I like it better the other way.
October 18, 2007