RE: Enlightened rants...
September 30, 2017 at 5:01 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2017 at 5:01 pm by Cyberman.)
(September 26, 2017 at 9:07 am)pocaracas Wrote: Curiosity killed the cat, so say the ancient folk.
I just want to point out that the phrase has been traced back to playwright Ben Jonson, in his 1599 play "Every Man In His Humour" (Act I, Scene IV):
Quote:Helter skelter, hang sorrow, care'll kill
a Cat, up-tails all, and a Louse for the Hangman.
and later popularised by Shakespeare in "Much Ado About Nothing":
Quote:Though care killed the cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
Care in this sense means worry, as in to care about.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
