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| Aug. 4 bashbro1 Men's 70 267 posts | Ruby, don't take your love to town or to home plate for that matter unless you're sure you make it! Bashbro1 submits that we start calling, what is currently referred to as the runner’s “commitment” line or point of no returning to the previous base mainly between 3rd and home, form this point forward as the “Ruby” line from the word “Rubicon”. I’m certain that Joe ‘einstein’, will be with me on this arcane/superfluous nonsense matter. From Dictionary Dot Com: ---------------------------------------- Rubicon: A limit that when passed or exceeded means a no return and resulting in irrevocable commitment. A river with historical significance in Northern Italy flowing East into the Adriatic, ~15 mi. (24 km) long; while crossing this ancient boundary between Cisalpine Gaul and Italy, to march against Pompey in 49 b.c., Julius Caesar made a major military commitment to cross or pass the “Rubicon”, i.e. to take a decisive, irrevocable and irreversible step past the river bank! bashbro1 (Ruth 60's Communications Admin) |
| Aug. 4 einstein Men's 50 3112 posts | Et tu, Bash-ay? Hey Bash, You're right as usual I love the idea. As I remember the quote, it went, "The die (as in 1 of a pair of dice) is cast; we have crossed the Rubicon." Speaking of quotes I like Alexander Pope from his Essay on Criticism where he says, " A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again." In Greek Mythology, it was believed that drinking from the Pierian Spring would bring you great knowledge and inspiration. |
| Aug. 5 bashbro1 Men's 70 267 posts | Hey Joe! I receive a similar charge (or epiphany...Def#) from drinking from my toilet as the Greeks got from their Pieran Spring water!! LOL bashbro1 (Intoxicated, inebriated with toilet water) Def#, From Dictionary Dot Com: Epiphany: a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. |
