The Digital Cuttlefish remarks on a certain expulsion…with a poem, of course.
I hate to carp at actually having the saga commemorated, but shouldn't it have a more martial beat and an alliterative clang to it? And where's the swordfight? The naked damsel? The villain's bloody demise? Man, I guess it's really hard to turn hanging out in the Apple store at the mall into an epic event.
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