And One And Two And Three And Four. . .
>> Friday, March 27, 2009 –
black friday,
no work for me,
work
Ah, the high life!
Sorry the bloggerino here has been a little dull and bare lately. We've been getting the joint here ready for an inspection by civil service agents (my favorite!) employed by the mighty United States Military.
Basically it's like this:
Here's a hoop. Jump through it.
Now jump backwards through it.
Now jump forwards through it.
Now jump through it in metric.
Now we'd like to see all your jumping reports in quadruplicate. Metric and English units, divided, sub-divided, collated, triplicated once over, randomized and paper-clipped.
No, no. BIG paperclips.
Man, all I can say is Thank God It's Friday. I'm going to go drink a peck of Heineken and a gill or two of Jagermeister!!
I have to retype all that stuff?
Thanks for linking into my Blog and mind thr after effects of tow gills of Jagermeister
Right, now I have managed to find a way to copy/paste a comment into your Blog and this is what I had prepared in Word when I was confronted with your comment screen and keyed the previous shortened version in.
Have you read Mark Twain on the Facts of the Great Beef Contract? If you have read it, you should know governments have always been like that. If you have not read it I will hunt for a copy I have somewhere on this computer and send it on to you.
Thanks for linking into my Blog and putting me on your Blogroll in the exalted company of El Campeador. I would like to reciprocate and will do that as soon as I can figure out how to get my Blogroll activated.
Enjoy the Jagermeister but beware of the after effects of two gills of the stuff.
That’s what should have gone off but didn’t and I guess by now you have to worry about the two gills of Jagermeister after the event.
I am going to have to seek help on setting my Blogroll up but it will be done sometime.
Beware of strangers in the night!
I have looked for Mark Twain’s "The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract," but the only copy I have is on a CD [one CD with of all his works actually] and my system doesn’t allow me to copy/paste it all. There is amongst other things a picture of a tomahawk in the original work and it would spoil much of the impact if it were not included.
Do yourself a favor and find it. It is a true classic of government bungling; bearing in mind the era when the events in the story occurred it must be an all time classic. I won’t spoil your fun but to mention when you get to the dialogue with various government officials go real slow and savor every word.
Do let me know. I got my CD [1997 version] at a regular supermarket CD Store.
[PS: on the matter of Jagermeister, have you ever had Baerenjager? My spelling may not be quite correct because it is a long time ago when we imbibed of this pleasurable nectar. But boy, was it good! It is a German Honey liqueur. Try it sometime!]
Thanks for stopping by Ike.
I have in fact, read the Great Beef Contract. Truly a classic short story and as true today as it was over one hundred years ago.
Twain was a man of his time, but also transcended the life and times he wrote about to become the preeminent American writer. His penmanship was cutting edge and his satire focused and sharp.
On the subject of Twain, the actor Hal Holbrook has been doing a one-man stage performance of Mark Twain for years. I've never been able to see it and actually, the show was here in my home town a couple of years ago. I hope to get a chance to see the offering one day.
Hope all is well with you Ike. I understand that SA has an election coming up soon. Will Jacob Zuma and the ANC win or is the new COPE party strong enough to intervene and maybe sap critical votes away? However it turns out, it seems that elections in SA are as convoluted and messy as they are in the USA.