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GiqueCee

(4,555 posts)

6. Long, long ago...

Reply to SergeStorms (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 10:52 AM

Mar 12

... I composed this explanation:
The sleaziest weasel in the cave said to the biggest bully in the cave, "You be government, and I'll be religion, and we'll have 'em by the short curlies for the 50 thousand years!" In whatever Cro-Magnon tongue was in common usage at the time.
Truer than ever today.