Gregory's ServerMost economists agree that by the time you're 40, you should:
- own a fully stocked occult library
- move about the forest in an old cottage atop giant chicken legs
- turn all your rivals into newts & moss
- gossip with owls under a blanket of stars
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@Edmonds_Scanner It's hard enough getting fiber to a static location here, let alone a chicken house thing. Pass. @Edmonds_Scanner But here in the UK after Brexit it's so difficult to get the Big Chicken Feet add-on that would convert our Victorian semi into a mobile home.  @Edmonds_Scanner this never came up in my micro and industrial org courses. I demand a refund. @Edmonds_Scanner Unfortunately, millennials are ruining chicken-legged-cottages just like they've ruined everything else. "Minimalist" "plant-based" "cottage alternatives" will never be as good as the real thing -- and don't even get me started on the iron kettle thrifters driving up prices for everyone.  That last line is beautiful. Reminiscent of WB Yeats. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43283/when-you-are-old I love the fact that it took an Irishman to perfect the art of poetry in English. It took that Gaelic feel for music and song, lilt and rhythm, to really nail it. @Edmonds_Scanner I'm not sure I'd say "most" economists, but certainly the ones worth paying attention to. @Edmonds_Scanner @jwz Can’t I just own a bunch of doorways to nowhere that lead to my pocket dimension instead of the nasty baba yaga house? @Edmonds_Scanner Great advise, thanks for sharing! At what point should I own the essential Saltes of Animals, prepared and preserved such that I may have the whole Ark of Noah in my own Studie, and raise the fine Shape of an Animal out of its Ashes at my Pleasure? |
@Edmonds_Scanner I confess I have done - gossip with owls under a blanket of stars.
Apparently, when you hear "toweet-tohoo", you are actually hearing two owls, one responding to the other. Years ago, walking my dog in the evening, I heard "toweet". Putting on my best owl accent (and hoping nobody was watching) I replied "tohoo". I spent about 5 minutes in conversation with an owl! One of the most magical things that ever happened to me.😍