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Toad Head Serious Helium Debates are televised debates over serious
issues, but the participants must wear character heads from The
Wind In The Willows and talk in a helium rich environment.
This means that the debaters are totally disguised, in both voice and
appearance and the viewer can concentrate
on the actual substance
of the arguments, and not the personality or manner in which they
are delivered.
Toad
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About to make a point of great merit. [xenzag, Aug 20 2015]
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Didn't work for Nigel Farage. |
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// Didn't work for Nigel Farage // |
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However, it's been an outstanding success for Vladimir Putin ... |
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If Putin did the helium thing would he be known as "Vlad the
Inhaler"? |
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It was the 'Putin in the bubble' images combined with the
thought of him encountering the combover clown Trump
that started me thinking..... |
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You know, it's already such a circus I'm not sure any
alteration could make it better/funnier/ or more well
understood. It's just a damn mess, any way you look at it.
Tonight a stadium will be filled with Trumpets. I need a rock
to crawl under. |
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I want a bobblehead trump which combover bobbles up when the head bobbles down. |
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This is so toadally baked... in the frog-licking sense. |
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[bliss], you should move to the UK (but bring warm
clothes). Here, we have no significant politics; there
are the Tory conservatives, the Labour conservative,
the UKIP conservatives and the Green conservatives. |
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I just may. You wait and see. |
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According to the Jewish tradition Moses (Hebrew:
Moshe)
was a stutterer, had a lisp and also a slow-speech
defect.
For exactly the same reason. To concentrate on the
content and not on the voice or looks of the speaker.
This may have been instrumental in the Pharaoh's
decline
to let the Israelite people go. |
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Interestingly in the recent elections in Israel, the left's
candidate Isaac (Yitzhak Boozhy) Herzog was attacked
for
and possibly lost votes because of his nasal high pitched
voice and horrible uncontrolled body-language on
stage. |
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Moses' speech defects are mentioned in the scriptures: |
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* When Moses says "Also yesterday, also today, also
since
you've spoken to me things only got worse for this
nation..." which in Hebrew transliterates to "Gum tmol,
gum shilshom, gum meaz dabercha elie herra laam
haze"
- gumggem is to stutter. |
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* When Moses says "send whoever you send for heavy in
mouth and heavy in tongue I am". |
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* I don't remember the hint for this in the scriptures but
there is a Medrash - a fable expanding the text, that
tells
of Moses as a baby, being tested by the Egyptians, who
suspected through magic that this seemingly Egyptian
baby was a future Israelite leader, and showed him a
plate of gold and a plate of boiling hot coals. He tended
to go for the gold but an angel pushed his hand to the
coals and he instinctively brought his hand to his mouth.
That is how he got his lisp and other speech defects,
saving his life at the same time. |
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There are many words which are repeated in his written
speech which would be hard for a stutterer and lisper to
say: |
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* Moses is ordered to go before the Pharaoh and say: So
said Jewe: Send my people (known as "let my people
go")
- in Hebrew it is transliterated Shallahh Eth Aammee.
three words, with all the possible pitfalls:
The Sh
and Th would both be distorted. The guttural hh and aa
would be impossible and the 'all' 'amm' would be
repeated. th tha thal thal thalah eth eth umm umm
umm... |
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* Moses is ordered to tell the elders: Accounting and
accounted-for shall G-d be of you from this. In Hebrew
these are two words: Paquod Yifquod Lohim Mizeh.
Which
would of course be stuttered: Pak Pak Pak Pakkod...
(incidentally mentioned in Moby Dick) |
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Stuttering in fact happens: |
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* With exactly the words of sending (send my people), in
his request "My master, Send it in the hands of whoever
you send it" which transliterates: Shlahh Naa Byad
Tishlahh. |
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* When Moses requests the Lord to have mercy on the
Israelites (the sons of Israel) he says: Please forgive this
nation... in Hebrew transliterated: Sslahh Naa Laam
Hazeh... (the Shlahh Naa is replaced with Sslahh Naa) |
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* When Moses tells in his first speech listed in
Deuteronomy about his coming to the people of Israel
he begins: And the Gods (singular) told me Accounting
and
accounted-for shall your Gods be from here - Hebrew:
Vayomer Lohim Eleii Paquod Efqoud Ethkhem.
(Traditionally, according to another Medrash, this is
specifically to show that the receiving of the tablets
caused the healing of all defects for the nation). |
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* During the impeachment attempt by Korah it is said
that they were imitating Moses' speech. I'm not sure
where this is. |
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