(05-21-2022, 06:58 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: Please tell me no relation to Larry Fink of BlackRock.
I dunno, man. it was 252 years ago when he was killed, and 252 years can bring out a lot of generations scattered all over the globe.
That's roughly 10 generations ago. 40 generations ago, I have Ragnar Lodbrok in my tree in at least two branches, one through Ivar the Boneless, and one through Bjorn Ironside.
England can blame me for The Great Heathen Army and the death of King Edmund the Martyr... and king Aille, King of Northumbria, I think, . Let's not forget the dumbass that got blood-eagled for screwing around with the wrong damned Dane...
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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.’