On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 21:34:36 -0000, Sam E wrote:

On 02/18/2017 05:31 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

[snip]

Why give yourself extra things to do? You pay the mail company to
deliver mail, then have to go fetch it yourself?!


Would you like them to read if for you, then recycle it for you too?

I once read a story where some people always kept their eyes closed
(even though they could see fine if they opened them). They paid
servants to do all their seeing for them, including reading their mail.

Childish absurdity.

--
A military pilot called for a priority landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running "a bit peaked."
Air Traffic Control told the fighter jock that he was number two, behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down.
"Ah," the fighter pilot remarked, "The dreaded seven-engine approach."