# The Curse of the Donkeys

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-curse-of-the-donkeys/333917
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 3, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-curse-of-the-donkeys/333917 "2005-12-03T17:58:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-curse-of-the-donkeys/333917/121 "2005-12-06T22:21:29Z")

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There’s _cry_ me a river…maybe donkey’s can’t cry, so **NI** ’s using the closest analogy.

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### Author: ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-curse-of-the-donkeys/333917/122 "2005-12-06T22:23:57Z")

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Pah. **Donkeys**.

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### Author: ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-curse-of-the-donkeys/333917/123 "2005-12-06T22:52:17Z")

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> [@New Iskander](#):
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> Where did I tell you to _sut up_?
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> All I said was, stop trying to piss up a river. Zeus was joking.

I meant shut up, and I see your Gluteus Maximuss attitude still shows, it is really bad form in the SDMB to use grammar as your debating point.

And there was no Zeus in the Mare tale. Remember that I am an agnostic. 🙂

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### Author: ![New\_Iskander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/db5fbb/32.png) [@New\_Iskander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Iskander)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-curse-of-the-donkeys/333917/124 "2005-12-06T22:52:31Z")

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[I stand corrected](http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/568.htm).

It’s, like, “_Zeus, wanting to show them that they had asked for something impossible, said that their suffering would come to an end on the day when they pissed a river_.”

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### Author: ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-curse-of-the-donkeys/333917/125 "2005-12-06T23:10:12Z")

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In Russia, river pisses _you_!

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