Rather A Pity
Feb. 24th, 2022 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloThe buying and selling of houses is a lengthy process. Our solicitor, when we speak to him on the phone, sounds whippet-keen. So why then are the sellers' solicitors complaining that he hasn't been answering emails?
I picture him at his desk- playing Wordle, or cogitating deeply on our business while knocking a golf ball round the links.
Is this how I would parcel out the time if I were a solicitor? Yes, indubitably. Because doing the things solicitors are paid to do must be frightfully dull. Ailz says it's mostly about reading the small print so the client doesn't have to.
Only I wouldn't play golf. I'm with whoever it was who called golf "a good walk spoiled."
Also it's something US presidents play- and that really puts me off....
Talking about US presidents and golf, there's a rumour that President Eisenhower, under cover of attending a golf tournament, was spirited off to Edwards Air Force Base in the spring of 1954 to view some grounded ET craft and speak to some actual ETs. ( Not the more common Greys but Nordics allegedly- the ones that look like Swedish pop stars only even more spectacular). I was listening to the indefatigable Preston Dennett review the evidence for this last night and there's more of it than you might think- and much of it comes from people with ribbons on their chests and/or letters after their names. If it didn't happen a lot of highly respected types have been telling porkies.
And not the kind of porkies that serve a person's interests but the kind of porkies that get one mocked in the media...
Anyway, the story goes that the ETs offered information and technology in return for the world giving up its nuclear arsenals- and Eisenhower turned them down. If so, this was rather a pity...
He said we weren't ready, that people would panic, that Wall Street would crash, that the Pope would be displeased....
(He'd recently fought a World War. I suppose it's not surprising if he didn't have an elevated view of human nature.)
But just imagine if he'd agreed to their terms...
For one thing we wouldn't- the best part of a lifetime later- still be fretting and biting our finger nails whenever one nuclear power did stuff with its military that another nuclear power says it shouldn't...
I picture him at his desk- playing Wordle, or cogitating deeply on our business while knocking a golf ball round the links.
Is this how I would parcel out the time if I were a solicitor? Yes, indubitably. Because doing the things solicitors are paid to do must be frightfully dull. Ailz says it's mostly about reading the small print so the client doesn't have to.
Only I wouldn't play golf. I'm with whoever it was who called golf "a good walk spoiled."
Also it's something US presidents play- and that really puts me off....
Talking about US presidents and golf, there's a rumour that President Eisenhower, under cover of attending a golf tournament, was spirited off to Edwards Air Force Base in the spring of 1954 to view some grounded ET craft and speak to some actual ETs. ( Not the more common Greys but Nordics allegedly- the ones that look like Swedish pop stars only even more spectacular). I was listening to the indefatigable Preston Dennett review the evidence for this last night and there's more of it than you might think- and much of it comes from people with ribbons on their chests and/or letters after their names. If it didn't happen a lot of highly respected types have been telling porkies.
And not the kind of porkies that serve a person's interests but the kind of porkies that get one mocked in the media...
Anyway, the story goes that the ETs offered information and technology in return for the world giving up its nuclear arsenals- and Eisenhower turned them down. If so, this was rather a pity...
He said we weren't ready, that people would panic, that Wall Street would crash, that the Pope would be displeased....
(He'd recently fought a World War. I suppose it's not surprising if he didn't have an elevated view of human nature.)
But just imagine if he'd agreed to their terms...
For one thing we wouldn't- the best part of a lifetime later- still be fretting and biting our finger nails whenever one nuclear power did stuff with its military that another nuclear power says it shouldn't...
