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••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Thursday, September 22, 2005

U BREAK IT, U OWN IT

i'm not sure who or when, but somebody used that infamous phrase in the last couple weeks or so. i quickly forgot about it till something i read jogged my memory this morning. then it came back to me that i wrote something on the subject almost a year and a half ago.

here 'tis:

ok, fellas
le's not fight over credit

it don' matter f
tom, dick, or colin sd it frs

wha matters:
le's not get 2 lit'ral here

it really means
u break it, u pay 4 it

no need 2 hang roun
n clean up ur mess

folk who run d place
cn handle it

jus pay wha u owe
n get d hell out o d sto!
Posted by d nova at 9/22/2005 07:29:00 PM
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  1. d.K.Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:59:00 PM

    The phrase was actually the "Pottery Barn Rule." and was ascribed to Colin Powell some months back. He says he didn't exactly say that, but in effect, supposedly when talking about why we couldn't just leave Iraq now, he said it's "the Pottery Barn Rule," meaning, since we broke, we own it...

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  2. AnonymousFriday, September 23, 2005 4:38:00 PM

    right, but the reference to tom & dick is that colin supposedly got it from richard armitage, who got it from journalist tom friedman. at least that's what friedman claims.

    the pottery barn denies it has any such rule.

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