23-05-10, 17:00 | #1 |
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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
Upon logging onto my homepage, I saw an interesting article about where the phrase originated. The link brought me to a Yahoo! Answers page:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...4202531AAk6ilr “Liar, liar, pants on fire. Hangin’ on a telephone wire!” is a paraphrased version of the 1810 poem “The Liar” by William Blake. Deceiver, dissembler Your trousers are alight From what pole or gallows Shall they dangle in the night? When I asked of your career Why did you have to kick my rear With that stinking lie of thine Proclaiming that you owned a mine? When you asked to borrow my stallion To visit a nearby-moored galleon How could I ever know that you Intended only to turn him into glue? What red devil of mendacity Grips your soul with such tenacity? Will one you cruelly shower with lies Put a pistol ball between your eyes? What infernal serpent Has lent you his forked tongue? From what pit of foul deceit Are all these whoppers sprung? Deceiver, dissembler Your trousers are alight From what pole or gallows Do they dangle in the night? |
23-05-10, 17:01 | #2 |
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William Blake is my favorite poet and I didn't even know this. Shame on me.
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23-05-10, 17:02 | #3 |
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And so, 'Your trousers are alight' enters my reportoire.
Thanks for sharing, I wasn't aware of this. Nice to see the word 'Whoppers' in there |
23-05-10, 17:03 | #4 |
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That poem is pretty funny
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23-05-10, 17:06 | #5 |
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I remember that poem from yeeeeaaaaaarrrrrrrrrsssssssss ago (around ten or so, maybe?). I had kinda forgotten about it though.
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23-05-10, 17:07 | #6 |
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23-05-10, 20:15 | #7 |
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23-05-10, 20:27 | #8 |
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Sorry, but this sounds completely unlikely to me. That poem does not sound like anything Blake has written and nor is it in 18th century English, and a quick Google search shows that its main source seems to be Uncyclopedia - not exactly a trustworthy source, to say the least.
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23-05-10, 20:34 | #9 |
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He's the guy who created that one Poem that Lara said in the first Tomb Raider movie.
"To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower,Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,And eternity in an hour." -- |
23-05-10, 20:43 | #10 |
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Pretty nice poem, thanks for sharing!
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