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James Madison Poem

Usually I avoid elevated language, but I was trying to add a little Shakespearean to my prose, to better catch a vein of the people.
 
KingMerv00 said:
American slang only, please. It's what James Madison would have wanted.
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Why is it that you makes jokes about James Madison? Madison was a great man who brought us liberty. No, you are not better than he is. I think you hate the freedom the Founding Fathers brought us.
 
Galileo said:
Why is it that you makes jokes about James Madison? Madison was a great man who brought us liberty. No, you are not better than he is. I think you hate the freedom the Founding Fathers brought us.
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Who's joking? She was a wonderful man, and brought us far more than mere liberty. James Madison invented the cabbage daquiri! And also a novelty chess variant using four hundred pieces on a board nine feet long on each side. And it was Madison who defeated Frankenstein and the Lizard Men From Space, using nothing but a wad of tinfoil, a bicycle tire, some plywood, and a spacefleet of ultramechanoids from another galaxy. All in all I'd say James Madison definitely ranks up there among the top fifty of the Founding Fathers, top forty if you include dancing ability and the swimsuit competition scores.
 
KingMerv00 said:
American slang only, please. It's what James Madison would have wanted.
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Doubtful- only cannaille like barge drivers, dock hands and divers other sorts of roustabouts would use domestic slang. Madison probably would have used Cockney rhyming slang because it was from Overseas and ipso fatso, more cultured.
 
BaaBaa said:
Doubtful- only cannaille like barge drivers, dock hands and divers other sorts of roustabouts would use domestic slang. Madison probably would have used Cockney rhyming slang because it was from Overseas and ipso fatso, more cultured.
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Actually, Madison had a speech impediment that made her unable to utter anything but Mandarin Chinese, which was quite a trial to her because she didn't actually understand that language. Luckily the problem didn't extend to writing, so she typed out everything on her iPhone. Which actually benefitted the whole nation eventually, because she downloaded the ConstitutionBuilder app and, in an idle moment while waiting for a slow waitress to bring out the waffles, played around with it. (We found out later there was a bug in that app, it deletes references to gay rights and the spellcheck for some reason replaces "bear arms" for "abortion".)
 
TragicMonkey said:
Actually, Madison had a speech impediment that made her unable to utter anything but Mandarin Chinese, which was quite a trial to her because she didn't actually understand that language. Luckily the problem didn't extend to writing, so she typed out everything on her iPhone. Which actually benefitted the whole nation eventually, because she downloaded the ConstitutionBuilder app and, in an idle moment while waiting for a slow waitress to bring out the waffles, played around with it. (We found out later there was a bug in that app, it deletes references to gay rights and the spellcheck for some reason replaces "bear arms" for "abortion".)
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Now you're just being silly.
 
Freedom, after all, is just another word for nothing left to lose. I think Thomas Paine said that. Or maybe Nathan Hale.
 
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