Friends, CPers, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to speak of Zary's Moustache, but not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Zary's Moustache. The noble PaperBagger
Hath told you Zary's Moustache was annoying:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Zary's Moustache answer’d it, being in this poll against me that he is sure to lose.
Here, under leave of PaperBagger and the rest of you trolls –
For PaperBagger is an honourable man;
So are you all, all honourable men (and Girlysports) –
Come I to speak in Zary's Moustache's online funeral.
He was a friend, faithful and just to anyone except those who disagree with him about Israel:
But PaperBagger says he was annoying;
And PaperBagger is an honourable man.
He hath brought many sock puppets home to the Off Topic Forum
Whose ad click revenue did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Zary's Moustache seem annoying?
When that the Oilers have cried, Zary's Moustache hath wept tears of joy:
Annoyance should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet PaperBagger says he was annoying;
And PaperBagger is an honourable man.
You all did see that in the post-game threads
We thrice presented him a kingly crown of post thanks,
Which he did never seek: was this annoying?
Yet PaperBagger says he was annoying;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what PaperBagger spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to vote for his opponent here?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And internet bots have lost their reason.
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