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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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Can’t someone just spray paint over the sign?
I’m assuming “tragedy of commons” here and not private property…
You go, dude!
Slightly OT: A former shipmate of mine once donned clown makeup (from a previous life) and rode a unicycle while firing a cap pistol. Inside the hanger bay of a US of A military aircraft carrier. I am told he had his escape route carefully planned… Oddly, he did not finish the full term of his enlistment for other reasons.
Inspired by this, I pushed (no gasoline, too verboten) an assembled-in-a-secret-space dirt bike through the same hanger bay and rode it down the gangplank. Think many, many steps with a 50-foot drop and a 90-degree turn halfway down. Good times.
We also wore colored socks under our regulation black socks just to buck the system. Until we got caught. Your tax dollars were supporting such rebels!
Yep. Sailors.
Robert, you wouldn’t happen to have been an avionics type, would you? We tended to think that way. One of my shipmates in our 65P/65Q shop (Vastards) once strolled through the hangar bay wearing a gorilla mask, carrying a ghetto blaster that was cranking out “Veteran of the Psychic Wars”.
It had been awhile between ports at the time. I wish we’d had access to a unicycle, though; that would have made it memorable!
–Budd, former CV-67 & CV-59 AX (filling an AT billet)
Maritime continent.
Navy and Marines make sense.
Some rebels are required, because the state part not so much.
Tenn Budd: “Robert, you wouldn’t happen to have been an avionics type, would you? ”
No, but I knew some ATs and was visiting one of their shops when things caught on fire. Entertaining.
Former DS for ACLS and other stuff on CV-64 1975-78