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  1. You want your Pepusch? Yo, I got your Pepusch right here... ow.ly/54NC30aouHr
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      @gordsellar That opera got the gov't mad at librettist for comparing corrupt Sir R. Walpole—then-British prime minister—to street thieves.
      1. …in reply to @gordsellar
        @gordsellar And IIRC, the sequel was banned and set off repressive legislation about theatrical productions in London.
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          @gordsellar not that those were a new thing by any stretch of the imagination...