Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for February 29, 2024

Gang aft agley

“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”

I can see it.

I remember Smith also observing that Irish laborers were always the strongest and Irish prostitutes always the prettiest.

“Man plans, God laughs”

While I’m betting Barn (like pretty much every American – at the few who have actually read him – misunderstood (and/or cherry-picked) Smith, I still would urge him to temper that nonsense with the much more workable writings of John Maynard Keynes.

I never knew that To A Mouse was about anything! The educational benefit of reading comics! Even if 60 years late.

And mis-read it, no doubt.

“Where were you last night?”

“That was so long ago, I can’t remember.”

“Will I see you tonight?”

“I never make plans that far in advance.”

(Casablanca)

What does being Scottish have to do with anything?

I suspect that most homeless people are not big on elaborate plans.

Barney’s favorite Scots poet is Ewan MacTeagle:

Lend us a couple of bob till Thursday. I’m absolutely skint. But I’m expecting a postal order and I can pay you back as soon as it comes.

Can I have fifty pounds to mend the shed? I’m right on my uppers. I can pay you back when this postal order comes from Australia. Honestly. Hope the bladder trouble’s getting better.

And of course:

What’s twenty quid to the bloody Midland Bank?

He could probably have gotten an executive position with a corner office and nothing to do but shuffle papers….which would be hades, wouldn’t it;

One who fails to plan, plans to fail as the saying goes…or something to that effect.