On 5/12/2017 11:54 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> So say thee, now.
>> At the time you had a lot to say about it. :-)
>
> We did, we did! We are of the bragging sort. See our period paintings. :-)
>
>>


Funny, how whenever we imagine ourselves in the past. We are almost 
always well off.


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>>
>>>>
>>>> You're not saying that work will make them free, are you?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Of course not! Bind them to their looms I say! As one of their minor
>>> authors once wrote: "and in darkness bind them". That is exactly right
>>> to increase production.
>>>
>>
>> Good luck with that, then. They are an unruly lot. Much want to rabble
>> and rouse. Once they get the scent of pink gin. They are harder to herd
>> than cats.
>>
>>
>
> Water be the strongest drink then. The Thames can be put to good use for
> that.

Now that that is going too far. Where's this famed Dutch courage?


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Regards
     Stephen

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