Pumps' Perplexities

These days, a news commentator may say a politician
has "fallen on the sword"......That is not true.....No
politician does it anymore.....All they do is "lay low"
for a year or two and surface at some other lobbying
or "political" advisory job.....

Back in Rome and in Japan....They DID fall on the
sword.....Then they became DEAD.......

Today "falling on the sword" means leave your job,
file your papers, collect your health insurance and
401K and take your wife on a well needed vacation......
(But, you do not get invited to fancy parties for a while.)

Also in the olde political days, if you did not "fall on the
sword" some one most likely shoved one into you.....Pumps