"We want things! Give us things! Big things! Expensive things!
We want this! And that! We want all of this, only fuckin' bigger...
Especially those! This has to be smaller too!
We demand a share in this, and most of that, some of this, and fuckin' all of that!
Less of that, and more of this, and fuckin' plenty of that!
And another thing - we want it fuckin' now!
We want it yesterday, and we want fuckin' more tomorrow!
And the demands will all be fuckin' changed then, so fuckin' stay awake!"
Billy Connolly on Women
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[thanx to Marc, a huge fan :-D
It's all Greek to me ;-D
Stephen Halliwell GREEK LAUGHTER A study of cultural psychology from Homer to early Christianity In the third century BC, when Roman ambassadors were negotiating with the Greek city of Tarentum, an ill-judged laugh put paid to any hope of peace. Ancient writers disagree about the exact cause of the mirth, but they agree that Greek laughter was the final straw in driving the Romans to war. One account points the finger at the bad Greek of the leading Roman ambassador, Postumius. It was so ungrammatical and strangely accented that the Tarentines could not conceal their amusement. The historian Dio Cassius, by contrast, laid the blame on the Romans’ national dress. “So far from receiving them decently”, he wrote, “the Tarentines laughed at the Roman toga among other things. It was the city garb, which we use in the Forum. And the envoys had put this on, whether to make a suitably dignified impression or out of fear – thinking that it would make the Tarentines respect them. But in fact g...
