Random Thoughts

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

You wouldn’t actually use the phrase ‘go to hell’ (remember - this is about diplomacy). The idea is to make someone think you have their best interests at heart while you’re negotiating for your own best interests, and planning to give them a jolly good rogering in the process.

It’s similar to Will Rogers’, ‘Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggy” while reaching for a rock.’ There’s no actual dog and no actual rock.

Boru

Oh. Well, now that you say that, yes, that seems obvious. It just hit my brain weird, I suppose and I knee jerked.

Don’t feel too badly - the first time I heard the Americanism, ‘There’s more than one way to skin a cat’, I thought, ‘Why would you need more than one way?’

It was years before I found out that no cats were harmed in the making of this proverb.

Boru