09-23-2021, 11:16 PM
(09-23-2021, 09:14 PM)BIAD Wrote:(09-23-2021, 09:10 PM)Ninurta Wrote: What he, and anyone entertaining similar notions needs to know is that I still have 3 of my old blowguns.
And I shoot back.
And I don't happen to have any covid vaccine laying around, so return fire will necessarily involve some other
substance... but I guarantee it won't be one that makes them happy to have been shot with.
According to this year's April's edition of Rambler's Monthly, that'll be nails, home made ball-bearings and on
two occasions, a large bullfrog via a catapult.
They keep a list.
The bullfrogs were a kindness - the ramblers looked hungry, and couldn't seem to find their way out of the woods, nor did they have any idea what they could eat while in them. I'll claim the bullfrogs to have been "humanitarian assistance".
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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.’