To: PROCON
It wasn't the pennies, it was the lack of proper humility before his betters.
Had he said, “Aye, Yer Worship, and Lardship, I sold me eldest daughter to a Turkish brothel for the $25.”, he would have been deemed an honest man.
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06/05/2011 3:51:38 PM PDT by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: count-your-change
It wasn't the pennies, it was the lack of proper humility before his betters. I see a lot of that kind of thinking around here lately. Funny thing is that the people doing it don't realize that they are engaging in the exact type of thing that they are protesting against, only in a weirdly perverse tyranny of the underclass sort of way.
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