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.
Saturday, September 12, 2020
Bob called in sick and stiffed his co-workers one too many times
That’s how all those stories about people being encased in concrete on large projects came about. My father told we that they used to employ bums and winos for laborers. Before a large pour, someone would nail a pair of boots to the form. Then start a story about how poor old “Bob fell in, and they couldn’t stop the pour. Then they would watch the laborers strip the forms, and laughed when they would take off in a panic. All those stories you’ve heard are false.
Not Jimmie Hoffa, then?
ReplyDeleteThat’s how all those stories about people being encased in concrete on large projects came about.
ReplyDeleteMy father told we that they used to employ bums and winos for laborers. Before a large pour, someone would nail a pair of boots to the form. Then start a story about how poor old “Bob fell in, and they couldn’t stop the pour.
Then they would watch the laborers strip the forms, and laughed when they would take off in a panic.
All those stories you’ve heard are false.
So that's where the phrase "Toes Up" started.
ReplyDeleteStill, looks like a pour in Brooklyn or Chicago..
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