Toot

Written by Chris Real on 2025-01-29 at 22:12

The next time someone tells you to "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps", look down at their shoes, and ask them to show you how that's done.

(You can let them use their shoelaces, if they don't have straps.)

Because the saying was originally talking about something you CANNOT do. Time and misuse has warped its meaning.

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