[Husker] The Roman Soldier and the Greek Stoic
Pam Rietsch
pam at livgenmi.com
Sun Oct 5 01:20:59 CDT 2008
Don is right, I was at the Detroit Lions last post season game in 1955 I
believe and I would not waste the time, but he faithfully watches them every
week. <g>
Pam who will still watch the Huskers at least when they are on tv and after
tonight not sure when that will be again. :((((
-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
Don Rietsch
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 1:26 AM
To: 'Steve Stone'; 'husker-tssi.com'
Subject: RE: [Husker] The Roman Soldier and the Greek Stoic
Steve is right. We need to be stoic. Things could be worse, we could be
Detroit Lions fans or we could have just lost a ton of 401K money due to a
market crash. Wait a minute! I am a Lions fan and I did just lose a ton of
money in the market.
I've got to go. Gotta find a rope and a chair.... (I live in a ranch home
so I can't even jump out a window.)
-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
Steve Stone
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 1:11 AM
To: husker-tssi.com
Subject: [Husker] The Roman Soldier and the Greek Stoic
Once upon a time a Roman soldier serving in his legion's Torture Unit
was hard at work trying to elicit information from a Greek Stoic but
without result.
The soldier was twisting the Stoic's right leg in what should have
been an agonizing way, so he was astounded when the Stoic casually
remarked, "If you twist that leg a little more to the left, it will
break."
The frustrated soldier gave the leg an extra bit of torque which
ended in the sickening crunch of shattering bone as it penetrated
flesh.
The Stoic looked at the soldier and said, "I told you so."
________________
The moral to the story, of course, is that it might do all of us
considerable good to develop some stoicism about the Husker football
program because there's a lot more hurt out there just waiting to
happen. Crying when it happens won't help the program, the players,
the coaches, or the fans (ourselves).
Count me in for much gritting of teeth. :-)
Steve Stone
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