Hotel California, the lost verses
Nina DePonca is over pernoite for 300. She says pernoite is 12 hours. I say it is 300 for 24 hours, which is Monique's deal (though I usually buy 300 worth of drinks, food, and beach trinkets too).
Some ISG member's allusion to Kipling has me going back to a classic Kipling ballad, and finding this wisdom.
[URL]http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_youngbrit.htm[/URL]
Kipling is the gift that keeps on giving.
Now, if you must marry, take care she is old -.
A troop-sergeant's widow's the nicest I'm told.
For beauty won't help if your rations is cold.
Nor love ain't enough for a soldier.
'Nough, 'nough, 'nough for a soldier. . .
If the wife should go wrong with a comrade, be loath.
To shoot when you catch 'them. You'll swing, on my oath! -.
Make 'I'm take 'er and keep 'er: that's Hell for them both.
An' you're shut o' the curse of a soldier.
Curse, curse, curse of a soldier. . .