Just remembered I was supposed to go back to the station to meet a dude about some equipment fixage tonight. Oops. That's not gonna happen now.


Edit: Frig', my wife says the guy's on the phone now. I got to put on the "I'm not drunk Jeff Foxworthy says" voice now.

Screw up yer courage, say only what you need to, and full speed ahead.

I can act sober if i need to when drunk, right up to just before the blacking out level

Nothing faker than the 'I'm not drunk voice'. Best of luck, laddie.

I just stayed on the phone for abut a minute. Told him I'd gottne the time we were to meet wrong and could he rechedule. Gave him the engineer's cell phone number. So now I'll kust have the engineer mad at me instead of the reapir dude.

No tell the engineer it was the repair guys fault and tell the repair guy it was the engineers fault

that way they blame each other and you get off scott free

Scott Free would be a good name.

yeah is it scot free or scott free?

I think its just one t

Yeah it's "scot free". no idea of the origin.

Scott Free would be a great name for an 80's glam metal band.

station engineer's on the phone woith ttthe wife now. she's got the glare starting up[. shit.

You need to drink more, fast.

Meaning

To escape pursuers or avoid payment.

Origin

Dred Scott was a black slave born in Virginia, USA in 1799. In several celebrated court cases, right up to the USA Supreme Court in 1857, he attempted to gain his freedom. These cases all failed but Scott was later made a free man by his 'owners', the Blow family.

So, we don't need to look very far for the origin of scott free. Many people, especially in the USA, are convinced that the phrase originated with the story of Dred Scott.

The etymology of this phrase shows danger of trying to prove a case on circumstantial evidence alone. In fact the phrase scot free has nothing to do with Dred Scott.

Given the reputation of Scotsmen to be careful with their money we might look to Scotland for the origin of scot free. Wrong again, but at least we are in the right part of the world now. A scot is a Scandinavian word for tax or payment. It came to the UK as a form of redistributive taxation which was levied as early the 13th century as a form of municipal poor relief. The term is a contraction of 'scot and lot'. Scot was the tax and lot, or allotment, was the share given to the poor.

Scot as a term for tax has been used since then to mean many different types of tax. Whatever the tax, the phrase 'scot free' just refers to not paying one's taxes.

No one likes paying tax and people have been getting off scot free from at least 1568, from when this reference comes:

V. Skinner, in a translation of Montanus' Inquisition. "... Escape scotte free."

tahsts awesome

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"Scott Free"

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Prolly a different artist, though.

I looked real quick and that's what I thought it said...

ssorry I can usuall type prety well drunk but it's been aq long day

if youre not posting like konstantin, youre obviously not drinking enough. come back when you cant type coherently.

well, youre getting there. needs more booze though.

My wife thinks she's really funny. She told the engineer I'm sorry my husband's sloshed right now can you try him again sometime when he's not a complete fool

Didn't you have some kind of problem with the booze? Not talking about an addiction or anything, but like something medical?

Steve

I've got sugar and yeast allergies, yeah. But I'm also allergic to pet dander and have 5 cats and a dog. On the surface, that's none too bright, I guess.

For being slow last night, the board had some decent drunken posts.