From: "Dave Coull" <d.y.coull-AT-dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 13:45:43 GMT
Subject: Re: stoic peace


Old Goat wrote to Roger

>y certainly be smarter than the average cracker, son.  
>wisdom be the result o experience; experience the
>result o damned foolishness; surviving damned foolishness 
>most often be the result o dumb luck.

Considering the amount of alcohol I poured down
my throat in my younger days, and the completely
crazy things I did, and the times I slept rough 
when there was severe frost on the ground, 
and diving head first off a motorbike while not
wearing a safety helmet, and stealing a rowing 
boat and getting swept out to sea and then losing 
the oars, I reckon I must have nearly died dozens 
of times,  and it's the most amazing good luck 
that I'm still around to tell the tale. Therefore, 
I claim greater wisdom than Roger, on grounds 
of more prolonged damned foolishness 
and unbelievably good luck.


Dave