01-13-2021, 03:41 AM
(01-13-2021, 02:30 AM)PLOTUS Wrote: Perhaps the Founding Fathers chose the dead of winter to try to prevent such a possibility from happening. After all if it happened in summer when it's warm........ well it would really take off.
Yeah, back in the day, on the frontier, around here the war season didn't typically start until the middle of March, when things started warming up and the Indians could canoe across the river in relative comfort.
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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.’