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.
We’re having some friends over for dinner
ReplyDeleteSaid Hannibal Lecter in the closing scene of The Silence of the Lambs.
DeleteU spelt donner rong
DeleteMaitre'D: "Donner, party of eight?"
ReplyDeleteNo response-
(10 minutes later)
Maitre'D: "Donner, party of seven?"
etc, etc
I remember that from the waiting room scene in "Beetlejuice", but I didn't hear the punchline.
DeleteNow that’s funny! Someone at CalDOT has a sense of humor.
ReplyDeletecan't beat 'em, join 'em .
DeleteTV dinners got their start somewhere....
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is when some wags named the lunch room in some DC office building the Alfred E Packer Memorial Lunchroom.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was some university Student Union snackbar, but hey.
DeleteJust thinking of it, but couldn't remember the name.
University Memorial Center (UMC) at CU Boulder has the Alfred Packer Restaurant & Grill.
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ReplyDeleteWhen we passed that sign on our trip, I laughed, but nobody else got it.
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