[tacticalogic]

“Just wait in line, citizen, and fill out these eight forms in triplicate; then wait in that other line over there to file them and, once you’ve done that, go home and wait and we’ll get back to you in a few months.”

"Nuts."

[Jack Hammer]

I suspect - although I couldn’t prove it - that General McAuliffe at Bastogne said something a good deal stronger, such as “F*** you - eat sh*t and die, you Kraut b*stards.”

As the wonderful experiment in democracy, the United States, goes down for the last count, the one thing one can say is that witnessing the fall will yield first-hand comprehension of various historical precedents such as the fall of Rome.