Greek mythology

[ashling]

[In_The_Wind]

1. indeed

I think I've been Zeused.

just sayin'




many times

[Sekhmets Daughter]

2. I've been Hadesed

The damned dog, that normally follows me everywhere, decided to sit down inside the gate...which then slammed shut on my finger...raised a freakin' blood blister.

[In_The_Wind]

4. OUCH

got any rescue remedy hanging around?

[Sekhmets Daughter]

5. I use hydrogen peroxide on scrapes, cuts etc.

I thought the skin had broken, but it's a damned blood blister instead. Don't know what came over the dog...he just sat down and refused to budge, LOL... Next dog will be female!

[In_The_Wind]

6. Rescue Remedy will stop all bruising.

I wasn't suggesting a disinfectant.

I prefer male dogs.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

7. I have always had male dogs...

I was making joke about a suddenly recalcitrant male...any male.

[In_The_Wind]

8. that's just the way they are

I like the alpha dog

[Sekhmets Daughter]

9. Yep...

They present the most interesting challenges, quite rewarding really.

[freshwest]

3. This dilemma also confounds mere mortals:

BENEDICK

(Coming forward) This can be no trick. The conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady; it seems her affections have their full bent.

Love me? Why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured. They say I will bear myself proudly if I perceive the love come from her. They say too that she will rather die than give any sign of affection. I did never think to marry. I must not seem proud. Happy are they that hear their detractions and can put them to mending.

They say the lady is fair; ‘tis a truth, I can bear them witness. And virtuous; ‘tis so, I cannot reprove it. And wise, but for loving me. By my troth, it is no addition to her wit nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her.

I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me because I have railed so long against marriage, but doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour?

No. The world must be peopled.

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married...

From aShakespeare comedy, Much Ado About Nothing, in which their friends arrange the romance of Benedick and Beatrice, is one of my favorites.

The line didn't connect until I saw the play and Benedick does a lusty forward swing of his hips as he forcefully utters that line.

And thus the world is being 'peopled' daily, so it's not altogether such a bad thing, uh?