You may have heard warnings a million times, you may have imagined danger in a thousand details, but just try to recall a saying someone asked you to remember in the face of instant danger, just before getting struck by lightening or bit by a snake...
Squat and go up on Your Toes!
Red on Black Okay Jack, Red on Yellow Kills a Fellow!
+ i know, it will take a few moments to pull up the mental index card of the crash position, when i'll only have a jiffy to assume the posture.
It is forbidden to enter the public garden carrying flowers. - Jean Paulhan Les Fleurs de Taebes
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of. -Mark Twain
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop. -Mickey di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
... + then try to work through remembering the Court Jester mnemonic rhyme to which chalice holds the brew that is true.
"the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true."
ReplyDeleteTrying to recall various warnings, meeself, Jayne. Uh, all i got is:
ReplyDelete"Don't vaccuum when it's lightning outside."
That's a funny ‘rule’, how could one hear it lightening and thundering out when the vacuum was on and know not to do it?
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