(April 12, 2019 at 5:02 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(April 12, 2019 at 1:34 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Hammurabi of Babylon was short on cash after his years of war with the Assyrians. His last great possession was The Star of The Euphrates, the most valuable diamond in the world. The king approached a wealthy pawnbroker to arrange a loan with the gem as security.
After examining the stone, the pawnbroker offered the king 100 000 dinars.
'Are you mad?' thundered Hammurabi. 'I paid more than a million dinars for the star. Do you not know who I am? I am the KING!!'
'Sorry, your majesty. But when you wish to pawn a Star, it makes no difference who you are.'
Boru
You know I'm going to have to hunt you down now, right?
SCORE!!!!
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson