And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I had a student, a former commercial fisherman from Alaska, ask me this: “What state in the union purchased the most baseball bats?” I had no idea. He informed me that Alaska purchased the most baseball bats. Why? To pound off the ice so that, as LL rightly noted, the boats don’t get top-heavy and flip over. Apparently the bats are useful for knocking the ice off railings, etc.
Normally the crew chips the ice off the boat to keep it from accumulating and ultimately capsizing the craft. These guys are tougher than that.
ReplyDeleteI had a student, a former commercial fisherman from Alaska, ask me this: “What state in the union purchased the most baseball bats?” I had no idea. He informed me that Alaska purchased the most baseball bats. Why? To pound off the ice so that, as LL rightly noted, the boats don’t get top-heavy and flip over. Apparently the bats are useful for knocking the ice off railings, etc.
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