"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings"

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Postby simon » Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:12 pm

Well, <a href='http://www.ozyandmillie.org/2003/om20031117.html' target='_blank'>there's</a> your answer for anyone who was wondering about Ozy's name. I never actually thought of it as being "zen".

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Postby norsenerd » Mon Nov 17, 2003 2:40 pm

I vote for option number 2
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Postby Foxchild » Mon Nov 17, 2003 3:14 pm

the zen thought had crossed my mind, yes... i wonder if simspon got the idea to put that up by looking at the forum, in particular that thread exactly on that topic.
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Postby Dr. Dos » Mon Nov 17, 2003 4:04 pm

He's stalking us... <!--emo&:unsure:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... unsure.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='unsure.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Postby hdofu » Mon Nov 17, 2003 6:29 pm

<!--QuoteBegin-Dr. Dos+Nov 18 2003, 02:04 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Dr. Dos @ Nov 18 2003, 02:04 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> He's stalking us... <!--emo&:unsure:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... unsure.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='unsure.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> We've been through this before, he browses the board, on occasion, although now I'm wondering if its a bit more often. This is making me wonder a bit more about that one statement he made to me a few months ago.<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Or it could be that "the taco of death" is an image<br>straight out of the collective unconscious!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Maybe it is... maybe it is... <!--emo&:ph34r:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /ph34r.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ph34r.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Postby CyberSkull » Mon Nov 17, 2003 9:56 pm

<img src='http://www.ozyandmillie.org/2000/om20000917.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><br><br>I was actually thinking about this yesterday, before I even saw the comic today.

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Postby Foxchild » Mon Nov 17, 2003 10:41 pm

I actually first heard that poem in my history class last simester. I thought it was one of the better poems i've heard. It was actually done for a poetry contest, i think about an actual location. I may be wrong on that last part, i'm going to find out from my professor about that. <br><br>oh, Cyberskull, i think that your avatar/sig are some of the best ever! how long did that take you to make, and would you ever say "look on my avatar and sig, ye mighty, and despair!". Had to through that phrase in somewhere!
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Postby Dr. Doog » Mon Nov 17, 2003 10:50 pm

i origionally said the latter option of naming in the post...
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Postby dabomb4097 » Mon Nov 17, 2003 11:53 pm

Wouldn't it be funny of DC Simpson lurks around here and posted that strip (and its explination) as a result of my post here?<br><br><a href='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... wtopic=175' target='_blank'>http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... br>Strange Timing Indeed...

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Postby Foxchild » Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:04 am

well, if he saw that, it was probably only a small catylist. I'm certain that he has been asked that many many times. He very well might have intended to put it up w/out seeing the thread at all. <br><br>Although... i won't count out that possibility, i think its safe to say that Simpson will have a method to his madness(madness as a good thing). Whether or not this forum can affect that, we may never know!
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Postby MidnightRealism » Tue Nov 18, 2003 3:33 am

I've been rather fond of that poem since we read it in my English class last year, primarily because it had a message and didn't attempt to bury it beneath layers of symbolism and hyperbole. I'd started reading O&M maybe a month before we read the poem, and when we did that assignment, the origin of Ozy's name kinda clicked. It was pretty cool, being able to apply something I learned in an <i>English</i> class to everyday life. Granted, I could have read the "Characters" page and found it out, as I discovered later, but this way made me feel like I'd accomplished something. Oh, and for anyone who's curious about it, here's the whole poem...<br><br>I met a traveler from an antique land<br>Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone<br>Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,<br>Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,<br>And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,<br>Tell that its sculptor well those passions read<br>Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,<br>The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.<br>And on the pedestal these words appear:<br>`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:<br>Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'<br>Nothing besides remains. Round the decay<br>Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare<br>The lone and level sands stretch far away.<br>-Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Postby Burning Sheep Productions » Tue Nov 18, 2003 5:36 am

I like that poem, but just the "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:<br>Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" part.
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Postby Dr. Dos » Tue Nov 18, 2003 2:16 pm

I really don't like poetry at all. One day I ran a search though just to see the whole thing, and for some reason, I really really love that poem.
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Postby Tavis » Tue Nov 18, 2003 6:45 pm

<a href='http://www.ozyandmillie.net/2001/om20010307.html' target='_blank'>"Look On My Works, Ye Mighty, And Despair"</a><br><br>Rain really does put a damper on their efforts, doesn't it?

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Postby Foxchild » Tue Nov 18, 2003 7:17 pm

Not always....<br><a href='http://www.ozyandmillie.net/2000/om20000806.html' target='_blank'>Rain</a>
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