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the scarlet letter

The Scarlet Letter is the worst fricken book ever that our dumbass teachers make us read because they are retarded and like ruining our lives.
Fuck Hester, The Scarlet Letter sucks monkey ass!
the scarlet letter by Mateo_4_5_6_ October 19, 2005

The Scarlet Letter

An amazing novel of ideas that endures as a masterpiece of American literature, but one that is, apparently, pretty hard for some of us to understand or appreciate.
So I heard you're reading the Scarlet Letter for school? What do you think of Hawthorne's use of symbolism to expose the deficiencies of several 17th-century schools of thought?

LOLZ the scarrlet leterr iz so gai
The Scarlet Letter by buwers December 2, 2010

the scarlet letter

a very good book if you are not stupid or in the first grade.

lets go read the scarlet letter because it is a literary treasure chest
the scarlet letter by meshack October 20, 2007

single-letter difference between God and the IRS 

Said letter is "R" --- God tells us to "PRAY with faith and without ceasing", whereas the IRS tells us to "PAY with faith and without ceasing". Otherwise, both "mighty entities" are essentially the same... they act like they've got your best interests at heart, but in reality they just mercilessly "milk you for all you're worth" and then turn their backs on you when you've been drained dry... no further explanation necessary.
Come to think of it, the single-letter difference between God and the IRS isn't the only direct correlation between the two "superpowers" --- because the IRS tells us to PAY so much, it causes poorer folks to PRAY to God a lot more due to their worries over becoming even more destitute from shelling out for their income taxes!

The Lester Stare 

That creepy look old people with the pedo stache and the baldness give you. Don't let him molest you.
Hubert, that guy next to the red truck gave you The Lester Stare again.

brought to you by the letters 

This phrase is from Sesame Street, a children's show created in 1969 that teaches literacy, counting, simple logic, and social skills through a kaleidoscopic mix of puppetry, animation and short films. In a radical departure for the time, it was designed to deliberately mimic the fast pace and style of TV advertising in order to 'sell' learning to kids: An Aesop-friendly story featuring the recurring characters on the Street would be intercut with rapid-fire 'commercials' for that day's 'sponsors' ("Sesame Street has been brought to you today by the letters A and S, and the number 7...").
"Today's episode of Sesame Street has been brought to you by the letters A and S, and the number 7."

In an homage to Sesame Street, which is sponsored every day by two letters and a number, one episode of The Simpsons was sponsored by one symbol and one number that looks like a letter: “Tonight’s Simpsons episode was brought to you by the symbol umlaut, and the number e. Not the letter e, but the number, whose exponential function is the derivative of itself.”