Rubes by Leigh Rubin for October 07, 2023

And you could work banker’s hours.

Yeah, but it’s a lot riskier.

Yeah, but then you’d be fighting lawyers.

( In a Monty Python voice ) Bloody Corporate Raiders !

Oh, I don’t know…

Personally, I’d choose politics, not the corporate sector.

I mean, look at the Biden family. Rich as King Creosous, and they get to sic the FBI on their enemies.

Trust me, this job is safer.

You don’t get to Valhalla that way, and you will not be remembered in song. Well, aside from “Stubby Index Finger”.

Or a politician

Nah, vikings could never be ruthless enough for that.

Actually no. They really liked plundering monasteries as there was always a lot of gold and few effective defenders. If they actually used the donations to help the people, it would have saved a lot of their lives by reducing the incentive for attacks.

Yelp gave this castle the highest raiding.

Thanks, but I’m not that blood-thirsty yet.