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Sep 05, 2004, 04:34 PM
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Warlord
Join Date: Feb 2004
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"Rural and Picturesque"
I am not as conversant with American slang and idioms as I should be. "Something rural and picturesque" sounds quite nice, but I assume it is intended not to be. To what might Mr. Lincoln be referring?
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Sep 05, 2004, 05:33 PM
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Chieftain
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 50
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lincoln does porno?
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Sep 05, 2004, 06:49 PM
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Completely Insane
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Austin, Texas
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What he's saying is that he's going to rip you apart limb by limb for your insult (To put it lightly)
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Sep 05, 2004, 07:35 PM
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The Culture
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Here's the deal: An important part of how Americans think about Lincoln is that he was born on the frontier, was largely self-educated, and spent most of his life in the Midwest, a long way (in the 1800s) from the relatively more sophisticated cities of the East Coast. There are many "rural and picturesque" stories about his early life, and many folksy stories, jokes, and one-liners are attributed to him.
Whoever wrote the CIV text was just making fun of this aspect of his persona. |
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Sep 05, 2004, 07:47 PM
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the InBond
 
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Omaha, Nebraska USA
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Sep 05, 2004, 07:53 PM
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Chieftain
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Or maybe someones (un)replaceable parts arent getting enough funding
 j/k 
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Sep 05, 2004, 09:29 PM
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Infantry Specialist
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Australia
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Sep 06, 2004, 12:57 AM
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The Final Tyrant
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Down the road, near the end of time
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It needs to be translated - rural and picturesque = folksy & backwoodsy, eg, he's gonna treat you like you were back in the woods among the hill-folk well away from the limitations of civilization... not a bad turn of phrase if you want to threaten a foreign minister in a way that won't cause an incident...
*Russian Minister* "Uhm, I think I may have been threatened, but it sounded nice..."
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Sep 17, 2004, 07:21 PM
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King
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Brasil
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everyday we learn something new.
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Sep 17, 2004, 09:30 PM
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Deity
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: New Jersey, USA
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Agreed!
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Sep 18, 2004, 08:13 AM
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Remember the Alamo
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Texas
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To me it sounds A LOT like a scene from DELIVERANCE.
If you haven't seen this movie yet (old Burt Reynolds movie - with Dueling Banjos on the soundtrack) I suggest you watch it... 
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