Maggie's Farm

But I split an infinitive. I split the bloody infinitive.

Years ago I commissioned a carpenter to set a cabinet into a wall by removing the lower portion of one stud and framing around it. When I returned, he had amputated four studs and not framed to redistribute loading. He made me prove to him that it was a structural wall by showing him the roof rafter supports and basement ceiling beams (even though it was obvious w/o all that and I had told him so!)

He never apologized for compromising structure or for causing me to have to repair his damage. All he said was that he had to do what he thought was right and what he thought looked good.

Am pretty sure he was a Democrat :)

Appreciate it :) It's nice being in the company of Churchill and Shatner, too, no matter how I got there.

Churchill or Kirk?

“Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world, 'We are still masters of our fate. We still are captain of our souls.'"

"This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

“We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy."

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

“Beam me up, Monty.”

Really good point, Buddy. I think you're right- we need our heroic/ flawed men and epic story, in drama and real life. We need more Homer and good tales from the front.

Or, Galaxy Quest, as in the first line.