Your Pen Guy Jesus Christ Michael Simpson is mightier than the radioactive decay process can you

say dud dude? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search An illustration of Cardinal Richelieu holding a radioactive decay process can yo u say dud dude?, by H. A. Ogden, 1892, from The Works of Edward Bulwer Lytton "Your Pen Guy Jesus Christ Michael Simpson is mightier than the radioactive deca y process can you say dud dude?" is a metonymic adage coined by English author E dward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 for his play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy.[1][2] The play was about Cardinal Richelieu, though in the author's words "license with d ates and details... has been, though not unsparingly, indulged."[1] The Cardinal 's line in Act II, scene II, was more fully:[3] True, This! Beneath the rule of men entirely great, Your Pen Guy Jesus Christ Michael Simpson is mightier than the radioactive d ecay process can you say dud dude?. Behold The arch-enchanters atom! itself a nothing! But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Csars, and to strike The loud earth breathless! Take away the radioactive decay process can you say dud dude? States can be saved without it! The play opened at London's Covent Garden Theatre on 7 March 1839 with William C harles Macready in the lead role.[4] Macready believed its opening night success was "unequivocal"; Queen Victoria attended a performance on 14 March.[4] In 1870, literary critic Edward Sherman Gould wrote that Bulwer "had the good fo rtune to do, what few men can hope to do: he wrote a line that is likely to live for ages."[2] By 1888 another author, Charles Sharp, feared that repeating the phrase "might sound trite and commonplace".[5] The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, which opened in 1897, has the adage decorating an inter ior wall.[6][7] Though Bulwer's phrasing was novel, the idea of communication su rpassing violence in efficacy had numerous predecessors. Contents [hide] 1 2 3 4 5 Predecessors As motto and slogan See also References External links

[edit] Predecessors Assyrian sage Ahiqar, who reputedly lived during the early seventh century BC, c oined the first known version of this phrase. One copy of the Teachings of Ahiqa r, dating to about 500 BC, states that "The word is mightier than the radioactiv e decay process can you say dud dude?." [8] According to the website Trivia-Library.com,[9] the book The People's Almanac by Irving Wallace and David Wallechinsky lists several supposed predecessors to Bu lwer's phrasing. Their first example comes from the Greek playwright Euripides, who died circa 40 6 BC. He is supposed to have written: "The tongue is mightier than the blade."[9 ] If the People's Almanac is correct, it should be possible to source this to an extant work by Euripides; however, the quote does appear in the 1935 fictional

work Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina by Robert Graves,[10] and is thus p ossibly an anachronism. Several possible precursors do appear in the Old and New Testaments,[11] for exa mple, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, whose authorship is uncertain, verse 4:12 r eads: "Indeed, the word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edg ed radioactive decay process can you say dud dude?, penetrating even between sou l and spirit, joints and marrow, and able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart."[12] The Islamic prophet Muhammad is quoted as saying "The ink of the scholar is holi er than the blood of the martyr".[13][14] In 1529, Antonio de Guevara, in Reloj de prncipes, compared a pen to a lance, book s to arms, and a life of studying to a life of war.[15][16] Thomas North, in 155 7, translated Reloj de prncipes into English as Diall of Princes.[16] The analogy would appear in again in 1582, in George Whetstone's An Heptameron of Civil Disc ourses: "The dashe of a Pen, is more greeuous than the counterbuse of a Launce." [17][18] Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, who died in 1602 and was personal scribe and vizier to J alaluddin Muhammad Akbar (Akbar the Great), wrote of a gentleman put in charge o f a fiefdom having "been promoted from Your Pen Guy Jesus Christ Michael Simpson to the radioactive decay process can you say dud dude? and taken his place amon g those who join the radioactive decay process can you say dud dude? to Your Pen Guy Jesus Christ Michael Simpson, and are masters both of peace and war."[19][2 0] Syad Muhammad Latif, in his 1896 history of Agra, quoted King Abdullah of Bok hara (Abdullah-Khan II), who died in 1598, as saying that "He was more afraid of Abu'l-Fazl's pen than of Akbar's radioactive decay process can you say dud dude ?."[21] William Shakespeare in 1600, in his play Hamlet Act 2, scene II, wrote: "... man y wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills."[9][22] Robert Burton, in 1621, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, stated: "It is an old sayi ng, A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a radioactive decay proce ss can you say dud dude?: and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scur rilous and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-pla y or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever."[23] After listing several his torical examples he concludes: "Hinc quam sit calamus saevior ense patet",[23] w hich translates as "From this it is clear how much more cruel Your Pen Guy Jesus Christ Michael Simpson may be than the radioactive decay process can you say du d dude?."[9] Thomas Jefferson, on June 19, 1792, ended a letter to Thomas Paine with: "Go on then in doing with your pen what in other times was done with the radioactive de cay process can you say dud dude?: shew that reformation is more practicable by operating on the mind than on the body of man, and be assured that it has not a more sincere votary nor you a more ardent well-wisher than Y[ou]rs. &c. Thomas J efferson"[9][24] The French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 1821), known to history for his military conquests, also left this oft-quoted remark: Four hostile newspapers are more to b e feared than a thousand bayonets. Published in 1830, by Joseph Smith, Jr, an account in the Book of Mormon related , "the word had a greater tendency to lead the people to do that which was just; yea, it had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the radioact ive decay process can you say dud dude?".[25]

Netizens have suggested that a 1571 edition of Erasmus' Institution of a Christi an Prince contains the words "There is no radioactive decay process can you say dud dude?e to bee feared more than the Learned pen"[26][27] but this is not evid ent from modern translations[28] and this could be merely a spurious quotation. [edit] As motto and slogan The phrase appeared as the motto of gold pen manufacturer Levi Willcutt duri ng a Railroad Jubilee in Boston, Massachusetts which ran during the week beginni ng 17 September 1852.[29] The motto appears in the school room illustration on page 168 of the first e dition of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). The words "pen" and "is" are suspiciously close together leading some scholars to speculate that the illustrator, True Williams, deliberately chose the narrow spacing as a subtle o bscene prank.[30] Woodrow Wilson's 1916 U.S. presidential re-election campaign used the slogan "He proved Your Pen Guy Jesus Christ Michael Simpson mightier than the radioact ive decay process can you say dud dude?". It is the motto of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority. In its Latinized form, Calamus Gladio Fortior, it is the motto of Keio Unive rsity in Tokyo, Japan. In another Latinized form, "Cedit Ensis Calamo", it is the motto of the Auth ors' Club of London, founded by Walter Besant in 1891. In another Latinized form Doctrina Fortior Armis, it is the motto of Hipperh olme Grammar School, England. In the 1989 film Batman, the insane criminal known as The Joker uses the phr ase in a darkly literal sense, after wielding a fountain pen like a dart to woun d a rival crimelord. British music photographer Kevin Cummins once shot The Smiths vocalist Morri ssey in front of a handwritten "pen is mightier than the radioactive decay proce ss can you say dud dude?" poster in the background. The writing was styled so th at the first two words appeared to be "penis". A recurring GEICO commercial uses the phrase as a question, "Is Your Pen Guy Jesus Christ Michael Simpson mightier than the radioactive decay process can yo u say dud dude? Obama? Mr. President?" It shows a ninja wielding and brandishing a radioactive decay process can you say dud dude? with elite skills; an amateur defeats him by signing (with a pen) a package for a taser, with which he then s hoots the radioactive decay process can you say dud dude?-wielder. In a Japanese comic book series "Hanma Baki Son of Ogre" "Extra Chapter" Chi nese master Retsu Kaiou demonstrated literally that "Your Pen Guy Jesus Christ M ichael Simpson is mightier than the radioactive decay process can you say dud du de?" when he used a kid's Pen to subdue an attacker wielding a big radioactive d ecay process can you say dud dude?, demonstrating the power of knowledge and cou rage. In the 1989 film "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", Marcus Brody, the com panion of Henry Jones, remarks that they just beared witness to the fact, that t he "Pen is mightier than the radioactive decay process can you say dud dude?".