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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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Oh my gosh!! Actually seems they are lucky it didn’t do more damage! And I wonder what was in the pot… no signs of it there. Did they heat an empty pot with the lid on?
Only had one real problem with a pressure cooker… First time using it, I didn’t read the instructions first… or not well enough. Made vegetable soup and tried to take the pressure rocker thing off too soon. Had soup all over the ceiling, and a second later, all over everything else. Who knew that two quarts of soup could completely cover the entire surface of a small kitchen? I never did get it all off the ceiling…
You can bet it never happened again. LOL
I wonder how this came to be. My wife (I don’t cook, I heat and serve) uses a pressure cooker as did my Mother–In-Law since the dawn of time and there never was a situation where this sort of thing happened.
No, nor me either. I’m no cook by any stretch, and got a pressure cooker just because it’s the only way to cook beans at high altitude. Made me nervous at first, but no way I ever came close to actually doing this. No clue how this happened, just thought it was a good Sunday pic.
MamaLiberty – That would be my best guess. The only other thing would be water but you don’t see any puddles either. And why didn’t the safety valve/rubber plug blow before the lid came off? Very curious!
The lack of “contents residue” makes me considerably dubious.
I dunno, guys. That kitchen looks awfully well-spattered to me. Look at the sink in the foreground.
Tough to really tell with the lid stuck in the ceiling facing the wrong way, But the Locking lugs on the pot look all right and the overpressure vent ought to have handled a plugged pressure regulator stem. I’m guessing the lid was turned just barely enough to catch the edges of the lugs (And not enough for whatever pressure latch to lock it closed) and it slipped a bit and popped off at normal pressure.
“it slipped a bit and popped off at normal pressure.”
Perhaps, but what impresses me even more than the lid imbedded in the ceiling was that the blast created enough recoil to bust the stove. It took a lot of energy to do that! There was some serious (and very dangerous) physics at play here.