by neufer » Mon Aug 05, 2013 11:15 am
Beyond wrote:
Messenger will never return. But unlike Charlie, who never returned from the MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) and who's fate is unknown, Messengers fate is to be a blemish on the surface of Mercury.
- Technically, Charlie returns for a sandwich every day at quarter past two
(unless, of course, there are "eternal Charlies").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_the_messenger wrote:
<<The advice "Don't shoot the messenger" was expressed (very obliquely) by Shakespeare in Henry IV, part 2 and in Antony and Cleopatra: when told Antony has married another, Cleopatra threatens to treat the messenger's eyes as balls, eliciting the response 'gracious madam, I that do bring the news made not the match'. Prior to that, a related sentiment was expressed in Antigone by Sophocles as "No one loves the messenger who brings bad news". Plutarch's Lives has this line: "
The first messenger that gave notice of Lucullus's coming was so far from pleasing Tigranes that he had his head cut off for his pains; and no man daring to bring further information, without any intelligence at all, Tigranes sat while war was already blazing around him, giving ear only to those who flattered him...".
The term also applied to a town crier, an officer of the court who made public pronouncements in the name of the ruling monarch. This often included bad news, such as tax increases. Harming a town crier was considered to be treason.
A syntactically similar expression is "Don't shoot the piano player; he's doing the best he can." During his 1883 tour of the United States, Oscar Wilde saw this saying on a notice in a Leadville, Colorado, saloon.>>
[quote="Beyond"]
Messenger will never return. But unlike Charlie, who never returned from the MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) and who's fate is unknown, Messengers fate is to be a blemish on the surface of Mercury.[/quote]
[list]Technically, Charlie returns for a sandwich every day at quarter past two
(unless, of course, there are "eternal Charlies").[/list]
[quote=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_the_messenger"]
[float=left][img3=""]http://i0.wp.com/www.colbertnewshub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Fake-Town-Crier.jpg?resize=636%2C356[/img3][/float]<<The advice "Don't shoot the messenger" was expressed (very obliquely) by Shakespeare in Henry IV, part 2 and in Antony and Cleopatra: when told Antony has married another, Cleopatra threatens to treat the messenger's eyes as balls, eliciting the response 'gracious madam, I that do bring the news made not the match'. Prior to that, a related sentiment was expressed in Antigone by Sophocles as "No one loves the messenger who brings bad news". Plutarch's Lives has this line: "[i][color=#0000FF]The first messenger that gave notice of Lucullus's coming was so far from pleasing Tigranes that he had his head cut off for his pains; and no man daring to bring further information, without any intelligence at all, Tigranes sat while war was already blazing around him, giving ear only to those who flattered him...[/color][/i]".
The term also applied to a town crier, an officer of the court who made public pronouncements in the name of the ruling monarch. This often included bad news, such as tax increases. Harming a town crier was considered to be treason.
A syntactically similar expression is "Don't shoot the piano player; he's doing the best he can." During his 1883 tour of the United States, Oscar Wilde saw this saying on a notice in a Leadville, Colorado, saloon.>>[/quote]