[CrackMonkey] Lindsey Graham

[Mike Goldman]

Mike Goldman wrote:

> > Voting is a mostly harmless ritual, and we need to keep what few rituals we
> > have. We need ritual, but the new ones coming into usage suck. Let's hang
> > onto the few old ones we still have.
>
> Yes, this is EXACTLY like that cannibalism debate from "At the Drop of a Hat"!   I
> really MUST find that now.  Oh, this is just precious.

YAY!  I found it!  Deja.com CAN be useful.


 The Reluctant Cannibal, by Flanders and Swann

 Seated one day at the Tom-tom,
 I heard a welcome shout from the kitchens:
 Come and get it!
 Roast leg of insurance salesman.
 A chorus of 'yum's ran round the table.
 Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum....
 Except for June, who pushed away his shell,
 Got up from his log, and said
 'I don't want any part of it'.
 What? Why not?
 I don't eat people,
 Eh?
 I won't eat people,
 Huh?
 I don't eat people,
 I must be going deaf.
 Eating people is wrong.
 It's wrong?
 Don't eat people,
 Have you gone clean out of your mind?
 I won't eat people,
 What's the matter with the lad?
 Don't eat people,
 He keeps on repeating,
 Eating people is bad.

 But people have always eaten people,
 What else is there to eat?
 If the Jou-Jou had meant us not to eat people,
 He wouldn't have made us of meat.
 Don't eat people,
 Oh no, not again.
 I won't eat people,
 All the day long,
 Don't eat people,
 He keeps on repeating,
 Eating people is wrong.

 Well, I've never heard of a more ridiculous idea in all my born days. To think that
a son of mine should grow up to be a sissy... Me, chief assistant to the assistant
chief. I suppose you realise, son, that if this gets around we may never get
self-government.
 I won't eat people!
 Have you been talking to one of your Mothers again? You're not getting to be one of
these cranks that thinks that eating people is cruel, are you, you see a man sitting
in a pot and think he's suffering? Oh, it's not like that at all. Why, he's just had
an invigorating chase through the forest. He's sitting there in the nice warm water,
with all the carrots and dumplings and things, he's thinking 'Oh, the pleasure and
happiness I'm going to give to a whole heap of people', that man in the pot there, he
enjoys it.
 Eating people is wrong!
 Look, son, I admine your sincerity, always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.
You're young, when you're young, you think you can change the whole world overnight,
even eating people, I know, I've been young myself. Take it from your old dad, you've
just got to learn to take the world as it is.
 I won't let another man pass my lips!
 I know why you say 'Don't eat people', because you are a coward, Francis, that's
your trouble, yes, a yellow-livered coward. You wouldn't mind eating people if you
weren't afraid of ending up in the pot yourself. Go on like this and you're liable to
get me into hot water.

 I won't eat people!
 That's enough!
 I don't eat people!
 I don't want to....
 Eating people is wrong!
 Communist!
 Going around saying 'don't eat people, that's the way to make people hate you! We
always have eaten people, always will eat people, you can't change human nature. I
won't eat people!
 I don't eat people!
 I won't eat people!
 I don't eat people!
 I won't eat people!
 I don't eat people!
 I won't eat people!
 I don't eat people!
 It must be someone he ate.
 Eating people is out!
 I give up. You used to be a regular anthropothercary. If this crazy idealistic idea
of your was to catch on, I just don't know where we would all be. It would just about
ruin our entire internal economy. Fortunately, I suppose it catching on isn't very
likely. Why, you might just as well go around saying 'don't fight people', for
example?
 Don't fight people? Ha Ha!
 Oh, that's my boy.
 Ridiculous!