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Re: hitchens weird
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, December 29 2010, 23:40:50 (UTC)
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>That's dead on and extremly funny! Perhaps one of many reasons Galloway referred to him as a "court jester".

...I also loved it when Galloway said that Hitchens had reversed the normal course of nature, that whereas he had once been very anti-establishment, his recent neo-con metamorphosis was nothing less than a butterfly grwoing into a slug.

...and just as neat was his final word on Hitchens...that he was a popinjay...now, the very choice of that, of all words, sort of turned Hitchens into antiquebecause it´s hardly ever used any more....but then, as if to prove Galloway´s point while THINKING he was demolishing him, Hitchens quickly regaled us with the "proper" definition, which is " a target to shoot things at" like arrows and such"...Hitchens thought he won the point by presenting himself as a target, presumably for lots of bad people to take shots at...you know, like the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune..." which forceed Hamlet, and Hitchens too, to be the targets of cruel fate.

..but, there are other, primary, definitions of the word.

A popinjay is a "strutting, supercilious person". A supercilious person is one who is "patronizing, haughty".

Galloway was exactly right...and even more to the point, NOT being a popinjay himself, he didn´t select a defintion hardly anyone would know because it´s so obscure these days, but the more common and correct one...which is EXACTLY how Hitchens was behaving!



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