Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for May 11, 2023

Take notes but no prisoners.

And my spelling is terrible.

Well, there is a way to get out of it, and any future assignments.

That’s Victor’s problem, not mine.

The battle’s not over until all the paperwork is done.

Funny one, Dave!

I’ll make sure my dog eats my homework!!!

there’s a chatbot for that

History is written by the victors and edited by the politicians.

“We shall write on the beaches, we shall write on the landing grounds, we shall write in the fields and in the streets, we shall write in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and writer’s cramp.”

Well, the pen IS mightier than the sword.

Optimistic pessimism?

Going to be hard to be victorious when you only have one sword between a thousand soldiers.

No, it’s written by someone who wasn’t in the battle, but heard about it second hand. Foot soldiers have seldom had the opportunity to write about their experience. But it’s true that the winning side gets to tell their version of history.

This made me laugh out loud; I shared it with my team members who are all tech writers (and are trying to catch up this month). :D

A knight on a horse is traveling north towards the castle at 18 miles an hour. An archer on the ramparts shoots an arrow toward the knight at 150 miles per hour. If the men are 5000 paces apart, how long does it take for the arrow to strike the knight?

All one sided views…

He’d almost rather die in battle…

After you get it written, put it in the chain mail.

Too bad his name is Victoria…

Knight Writer.

Just turn in the one you used for “What I Did On My Summer Vacation.”

That gives you incentive to lose!

West Point of yore…

Not strictly speaking true. Defeats or disasters have this way of becoming touchstones, like Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Kosovo, and The Alamo. And for every “Yankee” who’s a snake-bit Civil War buff—they exist—there are scores of denizens of the Confederate states who eat, breathe, and sleep the “Lost Cause”. (A family friend who who grew up in Kentucky claims that she discovered that the Confederacy had actually lost the civil war only when she went to college. I suspect she was kidding, or anyhow exaggerating, as she was a very bright lady with a lively sense of humor.)

Not to worry if your name isn’t Victor!

It might be written by the winners in the moment but the truth prevails eventually.

An early "Oh $hit " moment in history!