Five surgeons from big cities are discussing who makes the best patients to operate on.
The first surgeon, from New York , says, “I like to see accountants on my operating table because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered.”
The second, from Chicago , responds, “Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is color coded.”
The third surgeon, from Dallas , says, “No, I really think librarians are the best, everything inside them is in alphabetical order”
The fourth surgeon, from Los Angeles chimes in: “You know, I like construction workers… Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over.”
But the fifth surgeon, from Washington DC, shuts them all up when he observed: “You’re all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There’s no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains, and no spine. Plus, the head and the ass are interchangeable.
I have to go with the surgeon from DC. His description of politicians is pretty accurate for the majority of our elected representatives, and that goes for both sides of the isle. How many of them get re-elected is a mystery to me.
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On this day in 44 BC, Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in a violent overthrow in the Roman Senate. Though 60 people participated in the assassination, the most famous member of the cabal was Marcus Junius Brutus, a great friend of Caesar’s who inspired the leader’s supposed dying words: “Et tu, Brute?” (“You too, Brutus?”)
March 15 became known as the Ides of March, a day of great dread and foreboding. But in Roman culture, the Ides used to occur at the halfway mark of every month and was meant to be a time of festivity and a tribute to one of their gods. (The Ides of March was typically a celebration of Mars, the Roman god of war.) Following Ceasar’s murder, the Ides of March took on its current place in superstition and was immortalized by William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, where the line “Beware the Ides of March” is delivered to Caesar as he enters the Senate and where the “Et tu, Brute?” line was given dramatic heft.
So, Beware the Ides of March!
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