(03-21-2020, 10:33 AM)BIAD Wrote:(03-21-2020, 10:28 AM)Ninurta Wrote: ALERT! ALERT!
That gent is using the wrong style of pipe to be drinking gin and tonic! It should be a calabash style, or at the least a bent style!
GUARDS! SEIZE HIM! Take him to the dungeon!
I admit, the pipe and his attire are very post-colonial, but I'm allowing the monocle a pass.
(And he looks a bit of a 'pimms' man, in my opinion!)
Ok, I may have overreacted a bit - the monocle IS pretty posh, as is his buttoneer and the suit itself, not to mention the deerstalker hat and it's rakish set. I'll give him a pass, then, but someone get me a torch so I can bend that pipe stem myself!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’