Disillusionment

"Oh," I thought, "I've never seen a video of George Bernard Shaw before," so I clicked on the link.

I've never had my opinion of someone plummet so rapidly.

I was also thinking that he looks pretty old here, and probably can't carry hod or dig ditches well enough to earn his keep, so maybe someone should have euthanized him.

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