random quip

Jobs are like going to church: it’s nice once or twice a year to sing along and eat something and all that, but unless you really believe there’s something holy going on, it gets to be a drag going in every single week. -Thomas Michael Disch-

random quip

In unique feat in military history on 23 January 1795 a French Hussar regiment of horsemen captured the Dutch fleet at the Battle of Texel. After an extraordinary charge across the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns. -Wikipedia-

I must be off to patrol the moat.