[Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate

[Wilson Gray]

> Maybe Trump's speechwriter had just come from a production of the
Scottish play, where Macbeth, having been assured by the witches' prophecy
> that no man of woman born can defeat him, unfortunately encounters
Macduff, who was "from his mother's womb / Untimely ripped”.

Youneverknow. But, clearly, Scotland had some hella good obstetric
surgeons, in those days.

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Jan 21, 2018, at 7:04 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> >>> “Right now, in a number of states, the laws allow a baby to be _torn_
> > from
> >>> his or her mother's womb in the ninth month,” Trump said. “It is wrong.
> >>> It has to change.”
> >
> >> Killjoy.
> >
> > _Still_ seems like a good QOTY candidate to me. "_Torn_ from the womb in
> > the _ninth_ month"?! WTF is that supposed to mean? Does he want to outlaw
> > caesareans?
>
> Maybe Trump's speechwriter had just come from a production of the Scottish
> play, where Macbeth, having been assured by the witches' prophecy that no
> man of woman born can defeat him, unfortunately encounters Macduff, who was
> "from his mother's womb / Untimely ripped”.
>
> As for Trump’s misreading of the line, I think that’s a case for Dr. Freud.
>
> LH
>
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 1:36 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Killjoy.
> >>
> >>> On Jan 21, 2018, at 9:44 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Actually, a misstatement from the written statement: "torn".
> >>>
> >>> DanG
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 7:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
> >> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> A typo for "borne."
> >>>>
> >>>> JL
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Laurence Horn <
> laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> “Right now, in a number of states, the laws allow a baby to be born
> >> from
> >>>>> his or her mother's womb in the ninth month,” Trump said. “It is
> wrong.
> >>>> It
> >>>>> has to change.”
> >>>>>
> >>>>> —President Trump yesterday, addressing anti-abortion marchers at
> their
> >>>>> “March for Life”
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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