http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/11/vincit_motto.html Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:57:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/11/vincit_motto.html#comment-15050 Rueful Red Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:26:55 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/11/27/vincit_motto.html#comment-15050 <p>I was in the tourist tat shop on Edinburgh and I came upon a Clan Red shot glass (since the Reds are an ancient northern English family of farm labourers of no known distinction I'm assuming Clan Red's just a way of making money from us) bearing the motto "Nil Sine Labore" (nothing but through work). I couldn't help thinking that was so appropriate for generations of Red ancestors, who would have settled for nil quite readily, as long as it came sine labore. Only it didn't - you worked your socks off and still got nil.</p> I was in the tourist tat shop on Edinburgh and I came upon a Clan Red shot glass (since the Reds are an ancient northern English family of farm labourers of no known distinction I’m assuming Clan Red’s just a way of making money from us) bearing the motto “Nil Sine Labore” (nothing but through work). I couldn’t help thinking that was so appropriate for generations of Red ancestors, who would have settled for nil quite readily, as long as it came sine labore. Only it didn’t - you worked your socks off and still got nil.

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