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It's getting much harder for him to do that. Mostly because the last time he tanked the stock price, it (justifiably) never recovered.

My hometown had the Dairy Queen raided by the DEA back in the early 90s. They sold all sorts of drugs off of a secret menu.

Weird Al doesn't do mean spirited parody. Let me clarify, he doesn't use his music to tear someone else down.

However, there are plenty of other artists who would be happy to make such a song.

19 shots fired at a person without hitting means 19 chances to hit something, or someone, else.

Bullets don't just vanish when they miss the target.

These cops have such shit aim, and such shit investigative talent, that they fail at every single metric. They should be in prison, but failing that, they should not be cops.

I had forgotten that, mainly because it played such a minor role in the story.

Paul and Oedipus both accept their blindness as an indication that they had always been blind. They did not see that which they should have.

Not seeing was a major part of their fall. When they return to the story later, it's as a blind man who finally sees, and one who offers words of advice to their child who is about to make the same mistake that they did.

Then much later, Paul comes back as a ghola, but that part was written by Brian Hubert, who is not the best author.

I'd not really link the Matrix films to Classic Greek story structure, especially not Oedipus Rex.

I mean, Neo dies, but it's the noble sacrifice. They sort of thing is rare in Greek story structure. Rare in the Tragedies.

It fits some of the Heroic epics.

Dune is a Tragedy in three parts. The Tragedy of Paul Atreides.

They literally go through the class schedule in each book. General studies are not in it.

There was Arithmancy, the Harry Potter wiki says that it was using numbers to predict the future. It was an elective and Harry didn't take it.

The only other class that would have had math would be Astronomy, which was a required class for all students. The students are required to make star charts and such... Seems like rote memorization was the only thing taught. The wink says that the end of year 5 tests was filling in a blank star chart from memory.

They might get some English pointers in the dozens of essays they wrote, but since essays are graded on the length of the scroll... it becomes questionable.

It is the full story of Paul Atreides, following the Classic story arc.

I always point to the parallels between Dune and the Classic play Oedipus Rex.

Oedipus was born of a family that had sinned and was punished for it by the gods. That was why Apollo issued that prophecy. Oedipus then spends the first part of his story grappling with the questions of Fate vs Free Will.

Oedipus had his rise, and then his fall, and at that fall, he blinded himself and wandered into the wilderness.

Paul and Oedipus. They both were bound by prophecy, and both had very little say in it.

Oedipus' fall was engineered from the day he was born. Paul's... was slightly more complex.

While replication of research is important, one must be sure to use a diverse selection of subjects to compensate for any discrepancies caused by subject idiosyncrasies.

One may argue that a follow-up study may be warranted for any specific individual subject, yet without that additional, supplementary testing on diverse subjects, the follow-up study might present the appearance of some sort of emotional attachment.

I do apologize for the tone of my rebuke.

Cutting costs and laying people off makes the books look slightly better (more cash on hand) which makes the stock price jump, which is all these ghouls want because they're going to sell off on the high, and then bail out.

I'm American, I know what all the words mean, but they make no sense when put in that order.