Ex-Ch J Kathleen (“TBS = The Big Shillelagh”) Kerrigan compels me again to quote the famous line from Aristophanes’ antihero of his 424 BC smash hit The Knights, ancient Athens’ equivalent of a New York City dirty water hot dog guy Agoracritus: “When i get drunk I make deals in mines.”
Thus Ornstein-Schuler in another mining Dixieland Boondockery, Riddle Aggregates, LLC, Ornstein-Schuler, LLC, Tax Matters Partner, T. C. Memo. 20256-117, filed 11/10/26.
Nothing new.
Well, I’m living at this hour, recovering from my pacemaker install yesterday, but what are you doing up so late? In any case, Greek alcohol use doesn’t seem to be a contributing factor, the question should be, on what meat doth this our Agoracritus feed: In the classic Internet Classics Archive translation, Agoracritus declares: “Give me a bullock’s breast to devour, and I am a man to traffic in mines”.
Aristophanes is poking fun at the Laurion silver mines in southern Attica. The Athenian state owned the mines and leased out extraction rights to wealthy citizens, making mining contracts a hotbed for political bribery, insider dealing, and sudden fortunes
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