Posted on 10/17/2017 4:28:56 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Sir Winston Churchill: “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
French physicist Blaise Pascal once wrote, “This letter is long because I hadn’t the time to make it short.”
Even though Pascal’s comment seems contradictory, it isn’t, as demonstrated in great short stories that have withstood the test of time by delivering essential elements — time, place, setting, plot, and characters — in a minimum of words.
Or just desserts. Whatever works in a post-literate world.
Maybe in Canada they have deserts for dessert....
Not really. Just deserts is marginally more correct than the public usage of just desserts.
Like I always say; simplifying is a complicated process!
Raucous round of applause for correct spelling of “just deserts,” (what one “deserves,” one S) rather than “just desserts,” as if there were no meat or vegetables.
This reminds me of a church potlock to which attendees were asked to “bring a desert.” We made a cake with an Antarctica theme, all white with blue and silver glitter-sugar, and little plastic penguins. It’s a desert!
Like a food desert?
Anyway, how can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
Right, a food desert. A Gobi cake would have been fun, too ... subtle shadings of tan ... cinnamon-sugar, maybe ... and dinosaur skeletons.
My mother was never generous with the pudding.
The writer meant deserts, and he is correct. Deserts are barren places, that are hard to survive in, so the grasshoppers got their just deserts. Meaning they got nothing because they did nothing to obtain them and they didn’t know how to keep them. In the end they gained nothing.
An economics system based on envy and resentment of those who’ve done better than yourself can not stand.....
You know, as an amateur pedant I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know that.
As a fellow amateur pedant (and state high school spelling champion of Virginia, 1984), I run into stuff I don’t know from time to time, too. It pays to increase your word power!
I hope this doesn’t set back your pro career.
I did not know that!
I just been eddicated!
Odd as it may be, the word “deserts,” with one S in the middle and pronounced like the sweet treat, has been used in English since the thirteenth century to mean “things deserved”
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/desert-versus-dessert
The phrase is just deserts. Deserts - something deserved or merited. From old French, deservir - to deserve.
Dessert comes from the word, desservir - to clear the table.
That’s what I said.
mmmmmmmmm...
dooooooonuts...
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