I am glad that we used the word executed now. It would raise their reputation too much if we had said hung!Originally Posted by ShadowDragon
Thanks for the rep, Rob. Not less drink, just less talking about it.
Pirates are used to being well executed.
Rob.
The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
Yes, indeed. One is a question of 'justice' and the other is rather 'personal'.I am glad that we used the word executed now. It would raise their reputation too much if we had said hung!
Rob.
Hopefully in this forum we are all grammatically clear on hung and hanged.
Indeed Paul. Otherwise we could get into serious trouble with the executioner,and find ourselves relegated to the Vienna boys’ Choir
rather than Fiddler’s Green.
I wonder what Ben Franklin actually meant when he said "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately".
Rob.
The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
LoLIndeed Paul. Otherwise we could get into serious trouble with the executioner,
I wonder what Ben Franklin actually meant when he said "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately".
Rob.
Such a small grammatical difference so that one is to be either envied or unenvied....to be invited to the governor of Palestine's orgies or to be on a cross outside the city of Jerusalem. Oh well, always look on the sunny side of life.
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