(November 4, 2020 at 6:17 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:Indeed(November 4, 2020 at 5:52 pm)Sandman Slim Wrote: But, guys like OLB still want to believe that the bootstrap method is viable.
And strictly speaking, anyone who uses the phrase "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" clearly has no idea what they're talking about. Why? Because until fairly recently, this phrase implied a ludicrously impossible task.
Quote:Early 19th century US; attested 1834. In original use, often used to refer to pulling oneself over a fence, and implying that someone is attempting or has claimed some ludicrously far-fetched or impossible task. Presumably a variant on a traditional tall tale, as elaborated below. The shift in sense to a possible task appears to have developed in the early 20th century, and the use of the phrase to mean “a ludicrous task” continued into the 1920s.https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pull_ones...bootstraps
"Change was inevitable"
Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM