11 thoughts on “quote o’ the day: Diogenes, on pleasures of the flesh

  1. Lock up your tipple! The Raincoaster is on the loose!

  2. Metro says:

    What are you complaining about, Archie? Your cellar is in no danger. Whereas at the Metro house (or “station” as Antipodean ranchers might call it), we have twice had to weather the depradations of a Raincoaster about the place.

    It’s sort of like a swarm of locusts, only less pleasant and cultured.

  3. Cynicism and booze takes you strange places…Suppose it’s no wonder he ended up exposing himself in public and living under a bathtub.

  4. raincoaster says:

    Locusts indeed! What was I supposed to do, drink the CHEAP beer?

    Exposing himself in public and living under a bathtub? That’s MY KIND OF GUY!!!

    Strangely, I got taken out for drinks last night. I had one glass of cheap shiraz (yes, The Sister, it was Yellow Tail) and one Negroni and I got absolutely wasted on them. I have no tolerance at all now that I’m living so goddam clean.

  5. Stiletto says:

    Gee, honey, I been doing that for years!

  6. Stiletto says:

    Why does Diogenes bio remind me of a certain blogger?

    Just sayin’.

  7. G Eagle Esq says:

    Never mind the bath-tub

    What about the understandably-apprehensive squirrels anxious to keep out of range when the afore-mentioned tub is occupied by :

    (1) a formerly full but now empty beer-bottle

    and

    (2) an air-rifle laden individual flustrated in his quest for reinforcements of East-Midlands brewed Coors beer

  8. raincoaster says:

    We ALL do our best to avoid those types. No good can come of those addicted to American beer.

  9. Stiletto says:

    “No good can come of those addicted to American beer.”

    No doubt.

  10. raincoaster says:

    Canadian beer, on the other hand…and I do like to have one in each hand. That’s what I call a balanced diet!

  11. [...] And, lest we forget, here are some words of wisdom from Diogenes: [...]

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