And this just in! "Drunk to bed" (Enobarbus, of course -- what, you don't know who he is???*) prolongs life.
Seriously, although I continually shout that the only valid reason for cycling (beside transportation for the poor) is fun, I am only gradually crow-barring away the compulsion to make every ride a time trial. (Usually a slow motion time trial.) But things are looking up and it is good to have theoretical support. * Act I, Scene 2 The same. Another room. [Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a Soothsayer] Charmian. Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer 80 that you praised so to the queen? O, that I knew this husband, which, you say, must charge his horns with garlands! Alexas. Soothsayer! Soothsayer. Your will?85 Charmian. Is this the man? Is't you, sir, that know things? Soothsayer. In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read. Alexas. Show him your hand. [Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] Domitius Enobarus. Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough Cleopatra's health to drink. Charmian. Good sir, give me good fortune. Soothsayer. I make not, but foresee. Charmian. Pray, then, foresee me one.95 Soothsayer. You shall be yet far fairer than you are. Charmian. He means in flesh. Iras. No, you shall paint when you are old. Charmian. Wrinkles forbid! Alexas. Vex not his prescience; be attentive.100 Charmian. Hush! Soothsayer. You shall be more beloving than beloved. Charmian. I had rather heat my liver with drinking. Alexas. Nay, hear him. Charmian. Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be married 105 to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all: let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry may do homage: find me to marry me with Octavius Caesar, and companion me with my mistress. Soothsayer. You shall outlive the lady whom you serve.110 Charmian. O excellent! I love long life better than figs. Soothsayer. You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune Than that which is to approach. Charmian. Then belike my children shall have no names: prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have?115 Soothsayer. If every of your wishes had a womb. And fertile every wish, a million. Charmian. Out, fool! I forgive thee for a witch. Alexas. You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes. Charmian. Nay, come, tell Iras hers.120 Alexas. We'll know all our fortunes. Domitius Enobarus. Mine, and most of our fortunes, to-night, shall be—drunk to bed. Iras. There's a palm presages chastity, if nothing else. Charmian. E'en as the o'erflowing Nilus presageth famine.125 Iras. Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay. Charmian. Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful prognostication, I cannot scratch mine ear. Prithee, tell her but a worky-day fortune. Soothsayer. Your fortunes are alike.130 Iras. But how, but how? give me particulars. Soothsayer. I have said. Iras. Am I not an inch of fortune better than she? Charmian. Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better than I, where would you choose it?135 Iras. Not in my husband's nose. Charmian. Our worser thoughts heavens mend! Alexas,—come, his fortune, his fortune! O, let him marry a woman that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee! and let her die too, and give him a worse! and let worst 140 follow worse, till the worst of all follow him laughing to his grave, fifty-fold a cuckold! Good Isis, hear me this prayer, though thou deny me a matter of more weight; good Isis, I beseech thee! Iras. Amen. Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people! 145 for, as it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome man loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul knave uncuckolded: therefore, dear Isis, keep decorum, and fortune him accordingly! Charmian. Amen.150 Alexas. Lo, now, if it lay in their hands to make me a cuckold, they would make themselves whores, but they'ld do't! Domitius Enobarus. Hush! here comes Antony. Charmian. Not he; the queen. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:51 PM, rcnute <rcn...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I saw headlines the last couple days that the risks of fried food were > overstated and eating chocolate prevents bowel cancer. Things are > looking up. > > Ryan > > On Jan 25, 5:29 pm, Michael Hechmer <mhech...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A while back the Riv Reader published an article challenging the benefits > > of ultra endurance events. With that in mind, I offer this research report: > > > > http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2012/01/25/cardio-ma... > > > > I have to admit, I have long since gotten over any urge to do anything that > > smacks of "training", so perhaps this appeals to my preconceived desires. > > > > blessings, > > michael > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW http://resumespecialties.com/index.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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