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1. about 7 hours ago on That is Priceless

   If you are making a punned reference to who I think you are, she got naked for pay. The fact that it pleased some people was secondary at best. Now I’m sure she favors lowering taxes… for the right kind of billionaires.

2. about 10 hours ago on That is Priceless

   /// In real life it would never occur,

   but Great Catherine was said to prefer

   a stallion they’d breed

   to fulfill an odd need,

   and the horse, it was said, would ride her.

3. about 10 hours ago on That is Priceless

   /// As she followed the pre-arranged course,

   peasants had to be held back by force.

   Many men in the crowd

   implied she was too proud.

   Shout: “Come down, Lady, off your high horse!”

4. about 10 hours ago on That is Priceless

   Some sources give the horse’s name as Æthenoth, from Old English meaning “noble.”

5. about 10 hours ago on That is Priceless

   They are actually quite good at keeping certain kinds of promises:

   A) Describe non-existent problems and promise to eliminate them, ignoring statistics from before and trumpeting the same ones later.

   B) Take full credit for ongoing improvements of real problems which were already getting better.

   C) Make promises which are so extreme and unpopular that few take them seriously and then keep them as fulfillment of a “mandate.”

   D) Make real promises to fix difficult problems, don’t fix them, and either 1) lie and say you did, or 2) lie and say you never made that promise.

6. about 11 hours ago on That is Priceless

   Things have certainly changed. Conservative Evangelicals are now OK with the wife of their political leader having posed nude. If only a few more of their positions would begin to align with mine.

7. about 11 hours ago on That is Priceless

   “…All the cats who dig striptease

   Prayin’ for a little breeze.”

8. about 11 hours ago on That is Priceless

   /// I just read that work for the first time;

   writ by Tennyson, then in his prime.

   It is moody and terse

   and composed in blank verse,

   (which is simpler since nothing need rhyme).

9. about 11 hours ago on That is Priceless

   That would have been unfair to the voyeurs on the other side of the street.

10. about 12 hours ago on That is Priceless

    So I guess they are both named Jude, and the imaginative one is the horse? He is dressed fancy.