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Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From the morn to the night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and good humour! He's so quaint and so terse, both in prose and in verse; Yet though people forgive his transgression, There are one or two rules that all family fools Must observe, if they love their profession. [Yeomen of the Guard, Gilbert & Sullivan]
Yes, some things really aren't worth the time.
ReplyDeleteBut there is a message here a powerful one. At the end of the article it mentioned times were tough farming.
ReplyDeleteIn the early 80's when it was very bad back in the cornfield and depression got the better of too many farmers.
Why this is important to me is that the innovative ways these people committed suicide indicate their depth of sorrow was truly real.
I didn't mean to imply the story didn't have merit, just that the headline said it all.
ReplyDeleteI didn't take it like that at all Russ and should have said that. Many times there's no need to read the article that's for sure.
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