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I’m oedipus bitch, the original balla.

Posted in Oddly..., Classics by Elliott Back on September 20th, 2007. [Del.icio.us]

In an anonymous high school student’s paper about Oedipus Rex, we find this gem of a citation:

Riding in the benzo, poppin my colla
See some fine wenches, I hafta holla
Diamonds, gold, and all the mighty dolla
I’m oedipus bitch, the original balla.
I bust out my 9, to light up your impala.
Fuck that police!

Thanks to George Bush’s No Child Left Behind policy the teacher was forced to give this inebriated student a 61% for his creative efforts. Much to my shame, I’m unable to locate the citation in any of the translations of Oedipus that I posses, but my friends assure me this is a truthful rendering of the original Greek.

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2 Responses to 'I’m oedipus bitch, the original balla.'

  1. AiKikukaAi said:

    on November 15th, 2007 at 1:15 pm

    www.fordpower.net/forums/showthread.php?t=113677

    That forum thread has the Oedipus Rex paper in question.

  2. Anonymous said:

    on March 30th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    … Or it’s just a clever spoof ;)

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