If I Die, I Die

self ^ | 7 July 2009 | Thomas Dunbar

[bigbob]

Thanks, maybe you should start a blog ;-)

[tgdunbar]

ok, fine. However, is it unreasonable to expect some reporter to cite one or the other?

I used Daniel rather than Esther since the recent Dunkirk event puts it in modern political context rather than just a Biblical allusion.

[VRWCmember]

However, is it unreasonable to expect some reporter to cite one or the other?

I would be surprised for a reporter to even recognize the quote for what it was, let alone cite the allusion. As for the Dunkirk quote, since it has nothing to do with what Sarah actually said nor with the allusion she was making, it would be very unreasonable to expect anyone to link it to the Sarah Palin statement.

[rwrcpa1]

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Did you happen to read this?

[AFreeBird]

I’ve used a “breakout of the hedgerows” analogy, that seems to be completely lost on some people, so don’t feel bad.

[MattinNJ]

I gotta be honest. I was thinking Ivan Drago in Rocky IV as he looks down at Apollo Creed. “If he dies, he dies”.

[Unlikely Hero]

It’s sort of like Drago saying of Apollo (in Rocky IV), “if he dies, he dies.”

[Unlikely Hero]

Word up

[Gordon Pym]

Someone asked me the other day if paleness was an indication of bleeding. I said that it would need to be a “whiter shade of pale” and got a blank stare.

[AFreeBird]

LOL

[Red Steel]

Yeah, she took her Sherman and put on some cutters. ;-)

[AFreeBird]

And Monty couldn’t do it in D-Day + 10... :)

[End Times Sentinel]

So, mainly, these days, I've been spending a lot of time on something I call “Six Degrees of Diff’rent Strokes” and I've got to say it's fascinating and rewarding.

For instance, Gordon Jump played a creepy child molester with a thing for Dudley. Well, he was in WKRP with Tim Reid (Venus Flytrap) who was in Simon and Simon with Gerald McRaney, who's married to Delta Burke, who was on Designing Women with Dixie Carter, who was married to Philip Drummond.

Also, Hello Larry was a spin-off of “Strokes” staring McLain Stevenson, and his ex-wife was Shelly Fabares, who in real life is married to B.J. Hunnicutt.
But that's not the end of the M*A*S*H Strokes connection: Rosalind Chao, who played Soon-Lee, who got married to Klinger in the last M*A*S*H episode, she played Arnold's home room teacher in Season 2.
AND William Christoper guest stared on Love Boat, as did Loni Anderson of WKRP fame with Gordon Jump.

Jump doing that spot on that “Very Special” Strokes was probably the most pivotal moment in Television History.

[MattinNJ]

Fascinating.

[Robert DeLong]

I did, after I had posted it. My bad.

[bboop]

Thanks. I know Dunkirk and the Book of Daniel, of course. I just didn’t recognize the quote from Dunkirk.

I love Sarah Palin; she does have the courage of her convictions, and I am sure that this decision was right for her. Am not reading all the pundits on ‘why she might have done it,’ but will just watch her.

[Cedar]

During the ‘08 Pres. election, someone gave Sarah a “word” that she was like Esther (in the Bible).

So, yes, her reference must have been to the words of Esther, if I perish, I perish.