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two true stories...
i was working a bar in my hometown way back when, when a good friend of mine stopped in, fresh from 'nam. we had a couple of drinks together and i closed up early since he was the only customer.
went to this place in the big city, walked in, and T says, "let's grab a seat."
i said, "let's walk around the bar first and see if anybody wants to pick one of us up."
needless to say, i found a couple of empty barstools next to this babe and she proceeded to hit on me. we talked for a while then closing time happened. ended up me taking T to his place and continuing on to my place with said babe for a 'morning' of frolic and nastiness.
life was indeed good...
a few years later, i was working up in buffalo and stopped into my local watering hole on a friday after work. after a few dozen 'blues,' got to talking to this babe who worked a few floors up from me in the same building. things led to things and i offhandedly suggested that she come up to my place to view my etchings. (honest-to-god, that was the line...)
she did, and we ended up spending the weekend together and continued the on-again/off-again relationship for a few months until i got transferred to chicago.
life was good back in the day...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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