Like I didn’t already have enough problems. I think I broke my damn finger! Left index. With a hammer.
Because it sounded like fun, okay? Now drop it.
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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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“Now drop it.”
Ah…. OK… You do have it splinted, just in case?
OMG! Ban all hammers!
But seriously folks – what ML said, wrap it up with a stick to be on the safe side. What were you building when the thing turned on you?
Pollyanna with the silver lining here…At least it wasn’t your trigger finger. At least I hope it wasn’t.
Did that to my left thumb once. Smashed it flat with a hammer. Several years later I followed it up by putting a decking screw through it. It’s in good fun.
Stop, Joel. Just stop. Now.
I blackened a good 3/4 of a fingernail a few days back. We’d best stay our respective sides of the Atlantic, lest some bugger use the two bearded, gunny, glasses wearing recluses with injured digits…
as matching bookends
I see that nobody has called you a dumbass yet. Let me be the first. Of course, sticking my left thumb in a table saw doesn’t get me any brownie points either.