If ILM were the French Revolution

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I would be a Jacobin, I think.

Nabisco would be a liberal aristocrat.

Tom would be Danton.

Jerry The Nipper would be Carlyle.

I haven't pegged anyone for Napolean.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 14 February 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex in NYC is Napoleon obv

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 14 February 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll be third tricoteuse

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 15 February 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I would not.

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 15 February 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh! Ooh! Can I be Marie Antionette? Are we gonna play dress-up?

I feel pretty, oh so pretty.

― Kenan Hebert, Saturday, 15 February 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

the revolution has no need of ~~unrest fans~~ savants TO THE GUILLOTINE!! *cackles and knits, knits and cackles*

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 15 February 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I can be Sydney Carton.

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 15 February 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

pas de problème citizen, mind y'head on the way down BWAHAHA!! *knits more*

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 15 February 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm up to my neck like Toulouse Lautrec

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 15 February 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Jess would be Robesspierre... oh wait.

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 15 February 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

nate you can be the scarlet pimpernel!

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 15 February 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanna be Count DeMonet.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 15 February 2003 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanna be Michel Platini.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 15 February 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

It has the word "pimp" in it = YAY

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 15 February 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex in NYC is Napoleon obv

naw, alex in NYC would be either De Maistre or Chateaubriand (crack those history books, students!)

i'd be Lafayette -- heart on the side of the revolutionaries, but still ending up in the clink and barely escaping with me head!

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 15 February 2003 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah, Ned would be Talleyrand and Mistah Sinkah would be Madame Lafargue!

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 15 February 2003 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

or is that Defargue? anyway, it's the lady doing all the sewing in a tale of two cities!

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 15 February 2003 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"alex in NYC would be either De Maistre or Chateaubriand"

I AM NOT AN EXPENSIVE STEAK DISH FOR TWO!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 15 February 2003 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm Lafayette!

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 15 February 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm with either Jess or Simon Trife (or whatever Ethan's calling himself these days) as Robespierre.

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 15 February 2003 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I am madame la guillotine. i kill you. that is all.

― Charlie (Charlie), Saturday, 15 February 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd've been whoever was in charge of Poland at the time. They'd probably have been pretty down with ballboy.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 15 February 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

madame la farge ("knit one, pearl two")

― bflaska, Saturday, 15 February 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

knit one pearl two CHOP HEAD OFF THREE!!

(erm i am possibly enjoying this role too much)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 15 February 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

(Actually I was having second thoughts the other day about saying mark s had a crusader complex... I realised I should have said it's a BUFFY COMPLEX - and momus is spike, sterling is willow in dilated pupil mode and jess... well, jess must be dawn)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 15 February 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd probably be some unlucky peasant bastard whose head is to be lopped off on the Guillotine.

― Davlo (Davlo), Sunday, 16 February 2003 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

who am i

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 16 February 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

somebody needs to be Jean-Paul Marat

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Sunday, 16 February 2003 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I would be the gentleman farmer shutting all his windows and shaking his head in despair.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 16 February 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

plus ca change!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 16 February 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not too much different from you, Am. Lower-middle-class, not totally impoverished but probably safe from the wrath of the executors, conscientious, and despairing at the coming horror. Kinda lik I am in real life.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 16 February 2003 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be the exploitive peasant who rips the robes off the guillotined aristo to dress up as a pimpernel dandy as i trounce around and eat my cake too

― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 16 February 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Simon Reynolds = Tom Paine

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Monday, 17 February 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be the Marquis de Sade.
(Attention: the title "Lord" does not mean I'm an Aristo, okay?)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah, Ned would be Talleyrand

Ha! This is EXACTLY who I'd want to be if I were in the real French Revolution times. Good call, Tad. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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