Think pudding still off-line
Have some more memes.
Opened the dashboard. Thought, “Nope.” So, here are some more memes Rita and I created.
Sionna1 is the Celtic goddess associated with foxes — the Celtic word for “fox” being “sionnach”2.
Speaking of regime change, I heard Rita snort whilst reading the comments yesterday — I’ll be doing a post on Marxism later. It’ll probably be a little … corrosive.
Was at a briefing once, where the OIC walked through a list of things that we would be doing, and ended with: “And then we’ll wait and hope they come to their senses.”
The room got so quiet you could hear all the little aneurysms. We didn’t follow that plan.
I don’t remember if this was something my father said, or something that came out of a coffee conversation with Rita. It tends to really get some people all wrapped around the axle, though.
A quote from the Havamal. I think.
Also from the Havamal. I think. It’s been a while since I read my copy.
I don’t think this one needs an explanation.
So, here’s some more fox (mostly) memes — steal at will.
Ian and Rita
Pronounced “SHUN-uh”, because … Irish.
Pronounced “SHUN-uck”. I don’t know what to tell you.
Since you brought up Havamal, my favorites from that source are:
"Cattle die, kinsmen die, but the glory of a good name will endure forever."
"Bare indeed is the back of a man with no brothers."
Both aphorisms written from memory with no guarantee of accurate translation.
"All men have vices," etc. I like that one, though mine are none of your business. (I see no Father Confessor reading this, and as I'm a Protestant anyway....) It reminds me of an incident I witnessed in Afghanistan, ~ February 2019, when I accompanied members of our US/NATO Coalition Engineer Team to a meeting with the LN head of the government department we were assisting. Decent fellow, a bureaucrat's bureaucrat with a civilian rank we were told was equivalent to a two-star command. Wore good suits and sat in The Big Office upstairs in a smallish building. That kinda guy.
He was lamenting the corruption endemic to the Kharzai government at all levels, probably in reference to inability to get his own department's projects done, and he complained that "Everybody can be bought off. Every man has a price."
*I don't know that EVERY man has a price,* I thought. *But anyone who SAYS that everyone has a price, himself has a price. You might not be bought up yet, but I see you're for sale.*
And this was one of "the good ones," as far as they went. He was probably asking us to make an offer, for all I know.