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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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Sorry, Will they redo it with corect spelling?
Surely Torso Boy could hear cattle as well as any dog, so technically it’s correct.
😀 You mean Toroso Boy?
We’re working on the question of what they’re going to do about this absurd screwup.
so
much
facepalm
Don’t know whether to be encouraged that it’s not just me who has to deal with subliterate incompetents, or discouraged that they really are everywhere.
Well, Laddie is still giving us chuckles, so there’s that.
Mexican engraver? Heard cattle and Toroso (which means Bull likein Spanish) Boy? Hope they re do correct it.
Oh my, it looks like Murphy is working double over-time on that one.
toroso
ADJECTIVE
1. Strong, robust.
Velazquez® Spanish and English Dictionary. Copyright © 2007 by Velazquez® Press. All rights reserved.
Obviously a Common Core or ESL graduate.
Send Ian around to see the miscreant and reason with him. Laddie deserves no less than a proper memorial to a life well lived.
Question is . . . what was on the copy given to the engraver? 😉
“They” can put photorealistic pictures on birthday cakes. Shirley they could do a pic that resembles a corgi. That engraving looks like a Husky caught doing something wrong.
Well, Shirley – oops, sorry, that’s “bravokilo” – that’s what happens when you load the autocorrect module on your engraver.
What do you want to bet they fix the “Toroso” and the “heard” but it comes back with “Corgi’s”? (Because the engraver has never “herd” of a dog breed pronounced “Core Gis”, and, per Dave Barry, apostrophes are used to indicate “there is an ‘s’ coming.”)
Oh, Joel, the only thing worse with stuff like this is when the writing is part of a tattoo. I hope you guys manage to get it sorted out sooner rather than later. Torso Boy deserves to be laid to rest properly, and you need closure.
Hi Joel …Been in the sign biz 40+ years …these things do happen…worst I ever saw was when a friend that had a sign biz screen printed 5000 wooden bicardi rum crates…all were mispelled. My best one was when I made 5 signs ( all hand painted ) for a catering company called cuisine unlimited…mine said cusine x 5. When that happens in a sign shop it needs to be redone NOW! Your monument guy should get right on it.
I presume the order was given via phone.
My graduated-high-school landlord insists he was never taught how to use the apostrophe; his writing supports his claim. Dave Barry is correct, unfortunately.
I used to teach this stuff. Enraged doesn’t even come close.
Literacy is pretty basic stuff.
I’m with Kentucky.
I order signs on occasion – I send mock-ups – they send me proofs – I approve or edit. They don’t print without my approval and commitment – and there’s a chain of responsibility if things go rong.
Yeah, you guys are trying to apply logic to a situation in which logic has completely broken down. The story as I remember it: Landlady used to order these things from a small company called Peternity. Peternity didn’t actually own the gear for making the monuments, they subcontracted that. Then the people who owned the company name sold it to some other people who proceeded to shit all over it until their Yelp scores glowed radioactive green and they went out of business entirely.
But the people who actually made the actual things still owned all the gear and dies for making pet headstones. Landlady, being a wizard with a telephone, tracked them down somehow and got them to take money to make 3 – Laddie’s and two more you’ll see in due order when I get them planted. Unfortunately, while these people seem capable of etching letters and designs into marble, things like editing throughputs and spelling skills were not mentioned – and as you see, not present.
Things went wrong at the “subcontracted” junction. Never fails.