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A comment on Bruegel the Elder’s “Big Fish Eat Little Fish” (1556).

Re:Bruegel the Elder’s “Big Fish Eat Little Fish” (1556) by Tagbert on Thursday March 10, 2022 @12:15PM (#30629402)
"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on; While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on."

-Augustus De Morgan

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Re:Bruegel the Elder’s “Big Fish Eat Little Fish” (1556) by throwyawayyyy on Thursday March 10, 2022 @01:19PM (#30630401)
The Vermin only teaze and pinch / Their Foes superior by an Inch. / So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea / Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey, / And these have smaller yet to bite 'em, / And so proceed ad infinitum: / Thus ev'ry Poet, in his Kind / Is bit by him that comes behind

- Jonathan Swift :)

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Re:Bruegel the Elder’s “Big Fish Eat Little Fish” (1556) by SentientOctopus on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:25PM (#30631967)
"It is the way of the world, Baldrick. The abused always kick downwards. I am annoyed, and so I kick the cat, the cat pounces on the mouse, and finally, the mouse --bites you on the behind."

"And what do I do?"

"Nothing. You are last in God's great chain. Unless there's an earwig around here you'd like to victimize."

- Sir Edmund Blackadder

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Re:Bruegel the Elder’s “Big Fish Eat Little Fish” (1556) by hprotagonist on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:13PM (#30631826)
“ Adam

Had’em”

— Lines On the Antiquity of Microbes

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Re:Bruegel the Elder’s “Big Fish Eat Little Fish” (1556) by sertsa on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:15PM (#30631850)
Might be bugs on some of you mugs, but there ain't no bugs on me!
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