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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-09 11:19 AM
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Republicans as Bandar-log.
Remember your Kipling?
The Jungle Book?

Bandar-log (Hindi: बन्दर-लोग - a term used in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book to describe monkeys - specifically, Langur monkeys.

In Hindi, Bandar means 'monkey' and log means 'people'. The Bandar-log feature most prominently in the story "Kaa's Hunting", where their scatterbrained anarchy causes them to be treated as pariahs by the rest of the jungle.<1> Their foolish and chattering ways are illustrated by their slogan: We are great. We are free. We are wonderful. We are the most wonderful people in all the jungle! We all say so, and so it must be true.. Bandar-log communicate almost entirely through the repetition of other animals' speech.<2>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandar-log

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