Okay so I was having a bit of rum last night reading the paper. I am so glad I didn't give rum up for Lent. There was a lengthy article about the new bridge the state of NY is going to build over the Hudson River to replace the falling down TappanZee Bridge. Oh it's going to cost a couple of billion dollars to build ( gee where are they going to get that money huh?). They had quotes from all the politicians and the design firms touting that the bridge will last a hundred years before it needs to be replaced. Thank God I won't be around to have to pay for the next one.
Now rum does a funny thing to me;it makes me think. It was under the influence of rum years ago I realized that I was not of Italian descent; you see everybody beats up Italy. Now when Italians were Romans nobody meesed with us for hundreds of years did they? So I decided I am of Roman descent so everyone would be afraid of me. Besides being tough bastards Romans built a lot of stuff. They didn't have computers or modern materials but they were able to build things that have lasted thousands of years. To this day in Italy there are still Roman bridges in use that carry cars and trucks all day and they haven't been changed in 2000 thousand years. If a Roman architecht told his emperor that that bridge he was going to build for him would only last a hundred years he would have been thrown to the lions. How could they do it and us modern folk can't?
Now rum does a funny thing to me;it makes me think. It was under the influence of rum years ago I realized that I was not of Italian descent; you see everybody beats up Italy. Now when Italians were Romans nobody meesed with us for hundreds of years did they? So I decided I am of Roman descent so everyone would be afraid of me. Besides being tough bastards Romans built a lot of stuff. They didn't have computers or modern materials but they were able to build things that have lasted thousands of years. To this day in Italy there are still Roman bridges in use that carry cars and trucks all day and they haven't been changed in 2000 thousand years. If a Roman architecht told his emperor that that bridge he was going to build for him would only last a hundred years he would have been thrown to the lions. How could they do it and us modern folk can't?
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