I am very nearly through shoveling out the stable! It wouldn't be quite so bad except that the stables are full of a hundred Percherons and someone seems to have been dosing their oats with Ex-Lax, and my shovel keeps breaking because it's actually not a shovel but rather a leftover spork from Taco Bell.
ASIDE FROM THAT, things are going swimmingly. Enough so that I thought it would be good to draw up a bucket of English out of the well. It's been a while, so it seems a fitting time for another selection from The Churchill Wit. From Page 40, we have:
I have always been very much struck by the advantage enjoyed by people who lived in an earlier period of the world than one's own.
They had the first opportunity of saying the right thing. Over and over again, it has happened to me to think of something which I thought was worth saying, only to find that it had already been exploited and very often spoiled before I had the opportunity of saying it.
House of Commons
May, 1927
I almost said that just the other day. Happy I didn't now. I would have been devastated to learn it wasn't original.
Posted by: Larry Anderson at August 17, 2005 03:40 PMThe part about dosing the oats with Ex-Lax?
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at August 17, 2005 04:00 PMI seem to recall that Hercules had a similar problem once.
Have you considered diverting the mighty Pinchgut through the stables?
(Maybe you shouldn't; it'd take years to fill out the environmental impact statements.)
I think it would probably be easier to potty train the horses.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at August 17, 2005 11:19 PM