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lnhammer ([personal profile] lnhammer) wrote2009-04-20 08:13 am

Leech and Toad are Friends

"The swamp of current politics is cursed
    With rotten deals," proclaims the partisan.
"Administrative toadies are the worst."
    Well, no -- they're bdelloid, not batrachian.

—October 2003


Alternate titles include "Leechcraft" and "The Sound of Sucking on the Body Politic." The draft is one of several, marked as "the Still Too Nerdy remix" mainly because "bdelloid" (of, pertaining to, or resembling leeches) is apparently too obscure for common use. Ah, well.

---L.