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A Man of Few WordsBy lex, on November 8th, 2009
November 8th, 2009 | Tags: Small Stuff | Category: Small Stuff
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Targets of Opportunityblog advertising is good for you Credo"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones "Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra" "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche "A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke “You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier "Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas "Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex Amazon AssociateFor the Effort!Winnar! Subscribe CategoriesPagesTagsacademy
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Attention getting.
Too bad the lord didn’t impart the drafter with knowledge about the correct use of quotation marks.
reminds me of the old “Warning! Trespassers will be Shot! Survivors will be shot Again.”
My favorite is “Anyone found here at night, will be found here in the morning”.
Picture of a MAC-10, “Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be riddled.”
Oddly enough, during my youth it was always told that rock salt in a shotgun shell was the preferred charge against trespassers. Never mind that it would require the property owner to have a reloading press for shotgun shells, which aren’t exactly commonplace, and also shotguns aren’t much useful beyond about 75 feet or so, the shot slowing so quickly in the atmosphere.
Sure enough, the one time stealing apples seemed like the thing to do at the time, we being bored and inebriated and just look at that orchard full of unpicked Johnathans and surely he won’t mind if we liberate a few from the bottom branches, I was hit with rock salt while lugging a crate towards the get-away car.
Wasn’t as bad as I thought. Soaking in a cool water bath dissolves the salt out of the wounds, and those apples? Sweetest apples I’ve ever eaten in a bathtub. Or elsewhere.
But I don’t think I’d try it again.
– Max