Re: Hooray it's the 'olidays!
- From: Scatterbunny <rabbitfoole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:11:59 -0800 (PST)
Greebo suggesteried:
When in Roma it is customary on Christmas Day to jump into each of the
public fountains in turn. You could start planning your route.
Thank you for that suggesterie, Greebs. On the other hand, the sayin,
"When in Rome do as the Romans do" is prolly the maddest advice ever
offered in the whole history of mad advice; a history wot has prolly
not yet been written and would make an ideal Christmas present: "The
Whole Illustrated History of Mad Advice."
For example, there are fifteen thousand people killed on the roads
every year due to incomprehensibly aggressive bad drivin; everyone is
entirely rude in most social situations, so it is virtually impossible
to get onto a bus without being injured by people trampling over you
from the back of the queue; and the Romans' way of respectin their
environment is to leave litter everywhere and spray pointless and ugly
graffiti over anythin that stands still for more than three seconds.
Luckily, they are not these days herdin crowds of unfortunate captives
into the 'Colosseo' to watch them get torn apart by lions for the
entertainment of the Romans, but they clearly wish they wos still doin
that because they has an obvious affection for the ugly great ruin and
its nasty history, which would be - if yer rabit had any say in the
matter - an ideal and sensible site for a good supermarket, which they
finds it difficult to organise anywhere else in the city. And
finally, the last thing you want to copy the Romans doin in Rome is
goin to the office lunch on a normal weekday. They all leaves the
office exactly at 1pm and fights to get into the same pizzeria, where
they spends their lunch shoutin and screamin that they has not been
served yet and it's time to go back to work; this of course is why
they has strikes every week, as they has to find time for lunch on
some days, but it is difficult to get through the streets to the
restaurants as they is filled with unpleasant extremist youth from the
right and the left, wearin crash-helmets and throwin cafe tables at
each other. One thing the Romans don't do in Rome, which is wot you
need to learn very quickly, is to put in some ear plugs and just try
to ignore as much of it as you can.
So in a history - as suggestied above - of the maddest advice ever
offered in the whole history of mad advice, a whole chapter would be
devoted to why "When in Rome do as the Romans do" is the maddest of
the mad advice ever offered in the maddest of times, and only offered
by mad people who are truly very mad.
But, thank you anyway, and as advice, I'm sure it was kindly meant.
~..~
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