Anthony Bourdain Quote

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/16/2013 07:42 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>I like it!
>
>It was also said of Frederick the Great's horse.
>
>I wonder if Magellan had a cat on board.

Magellan's (or Cook's, if you prefer) rats had seen the world, and
populated it, but they were still rats.  [The "and populated it" is optional.]

Joel


>JL
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>On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Dave Hause <dwhause at cablemo.net> wrote:
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> > The obvious reposte would seem to be, "Napolean's mules had seen a hundred
> > campaigns but they were still mules."
> > Dave Hause, dwhause at cablemo.net
> > Waynesville, MO
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > Bourdain is in a current TV promo intoning, "Someone once said, 'Don't tell
> > me what a man knows; tell me where he's been.'"  He goes on to say how much
> > he enjoys sharing a pipe with a shaman.
> >
> > Anyway, I can't find any evidence that anyone other than Bourdain himself
> > ever made that sententious and not very persuasive claim (what if you've
> > been everywhere and you're still a fool?).

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