Funny take on a brilliant Swift piece. If anyone hasn't read Swift's "A Modest Proposal" then I suggest you do. It's a great piece of 18th Century political satire.

However, Swift wrote this in reaction to England's treatment of Ireland and its dehumanization of the Irish and the exploitation of her land...and this song doesn't encompass that depth. Swift wrote this in reaction to a pamphlet (I can't recall the name) which reduced the Irish to mere statistics. If you can find the pamphlet that Swift satires, it makes "A Modest Proposal" so much funnier.

So, while I detest rap and am disappointed that these lyrics didn't scratch the surface of Swift's true impetus behind his satire (as so few summaries do) I give props to those boys for being clever little cheeks.

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Hi daphne, It's all there in Firefox, we are still having some issues adjusting IE to the new avatar things. Expect it to be fixed soon.

The production on this was much better than I was expecting. Vote ++

Oops oops! Thanks, dag. It's all fixed. I thought there might be a new limit in the comments. My bad.

Is there any way I can delete comments?

I'll take care of it for you...

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Thanks, James! You da man.

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I just got around to watching the whole thing. Very well done. Great find.

Is there more info on the origin of this? It had me in tears, the guy is brilliant!

Erm nevermind. *blush* So much for advertising, huh?

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