Bowlderization

[bantrobel]

I realized a few moments ago that I have never actually read the full text of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have A Dream speech. I was checking Megatokyo to see if a new comic had been posted when I noticed Dom's rant at the bottom of the page. Sometimes I read the rants, mostly I don't, but for once his current blog was short and sweet. It was

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[iamthepoison]

I've been hung down, brung down, hung up, and all kinds o' mean nasty ugly things.
Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie.
I had it memorized once, although it's gone now, mostly.

[bantrobel]

HAH!!! And for you.... an awesome hot dog!

[misteropinion]

I had it memorized once, and it's still mostly there. :-)

[revchris]

I haven't read the whole speech yet, either.

[misteropinion]

My lady, you wound me! Besides, I always have a real hot dog for you. The question is, is it metaphorical, dietary, or erotic, or a combination of the three?

Great speaches do not a great president make-what did JFK really do? Most of that good stuff was really LBJ's (talk about somebody who was hung-down, brung-down, strung out and all kinds of things there...) deal.

[bantrobel]

Yah, but I knew you would know the answer right away, so that would be cheating.

True, I agree completely. Speechifying is just talk. We'll see what he actually *does*.

[misteropinion]

I haven't finished watching it yet to make sure it's the whole run, or checked it against a transcript, but if you love to let the LazyWeb find your stuff, here's a video of the whole speech.

For some reason I can't do an embed in this response, but here's the item.

[revchris]

The speech is available for download as an MP3 from
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html