Saturday, June 6, 2026

Why We Figh...er, Lose

Posted by JM at 6:57 AM


Duque will probably highlight this, also, but I just had to...

Sorry, heading for the vomitorium...

4 comments:

JM said...

And a Happy D-Day to all.

June 6, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Rufus T. Firefly said...

Means something completely different in Germany, no?

Two former colleagues (both good guys) were battling over where a very large plant expansion was going to be built. Chicagoland or Worms (the one on the Rhine, not the one underground). One guy based in Chicago and a German guy in Maryland hq.

The guy in Chicago did a whole bunch of smaller projects called Seigfried slays the dragon. They both chuckled. The the Chicago guy submitted a larger project called Overlord.

German guy didn't have a clue as to the meaning. Until I told him after the project was chosen for Germany. He's coming to visit us in NH next month.

June 6, 2026 at 8:46 AM
JM said...

Say hi for me. The only think I know about Worms is the Diet of Worms, which always sounded disgusting to me but I understand is popular in parts of Africa and Asia.

By the way, it's so Catholic around here. Crucifixes and saints everywhere. Thursday was a Catholic holy day, the Ascension of Christ, and like a bunch of second and third tier Catholic holy days, it's also a national holiday. Everything is closed, like Sundays.

I was raised Catholic but this side of the culture is really bizarre to me.

June 7, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Rufus T. Firefly said...

Worms are more appetizing if you pronounce them correctly. Sounds like vermicelli, which means... little worms. OK nevermind.

The diet of worms was when the pope (a different Leo) put the fatwa on his head.

That was later used as an excuse for a failed Austrian painter to be evil.

The butterfly effect of the catholic church.

June 7, 2026 at 7:44 AM

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)