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In honor of the day after the anniversary of Oscar Wilde’s death or something, Stephen Fry, the current Famous Person Most Likely To Be Compared to Oscar Wilde By People Kissing His Ass, has declared today to be Oscar Wilde Day, or as defined on Twitter, #oscarwildeday. His Stephenness has promised undefined “prizes aplenty” for the best Twitter-length “Oscar-style epigrams and bon mots” as well as pictures of “Oscar poses”, because if there’s one thing a Wildean festival brings out, it’s posers. (Also poseurs)
Still, in the words of Dan Le Sac and/or Scroobius Pip, “Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.” Then again, I buy Coca-Cola and Nestle products (they own Stouffers, dangit), and I occasionally make some noise for Detroit, quote me happy and shake it like a polaroid picture (for certain values of “it”). But I digress.
It was fun digging through my own quotes for something Wilde-ish sounding…
“Those who are allowed discretion rarely practice discretion.”
“Question Authority, and in time, the authorities will question you.”
“Those who define depravities are the best qualified to perform them.”
And tossed in my own commentaries on some Wilde quotes:
Oscar Wilde said “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” and I can’t top that.
Wilde said “I am not young enough to know everything.” I’d reword it: “I’m too old to know it all”, but I’m an ass.
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from lack of imagination.” No longer true since now you can do it with no imagination at all.
When it came to the visual portion, striking a Wilde-like picture pose, I knew from past over-exposures that that was something I just couldn’t do, but then remembered that, with a little photoslop work, nothing is impossible.
First Santa Claus, now Oscar Wilde. I can’t even guess what bodies my face will be pasted upon next…
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