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Week 724: Abridged Too Far

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20070729
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In the famed Aristophanes play "Lysistrata,"

The women tell men, "If you war, you'll get nada."

The elegantly hilarious couplet at right, about the Greek comedy in which the women of Athens stage a sex strike to make their husbands stop fighting the Peloponnesian War, was submitted by Unbelievably Witty Loser Chris Doyle as an entry for Week 720, whose results appear below. It didn't quite fit in a list of historical events, but it gave the Empress a cheap 'n' easy way to post a new contest. This week: Sum up a book, play or movie in a humorous rhyming verse of two to four lines. Don't include ...

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