The last joke

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• PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Context From Original OP:

  As Lim Hyeong-su was about to take and drink the poison, he looked at the clerk of the Uigeumbu (State Tribunal), smiled, and asked,

  “Would you also care for a cup?”

  When someone suggested that it would be better to go inside the house to pass away, Lim Hyeong-su replied,

  “I shall rightly die out here under the open sky, where the deities of heaven and earth surround and look upon me clearly. Why should I go to a dark and gloomy place to die?”

  Thereupon, he drank the poison and died, and all who heard of it were filled with sorrow.

  -Thw Annals of thw Joseon dynasty, September 21, 1547

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• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Considering it is most likely offered by a royal or someone of high rank, would it be rude of the low ranking official to refuse?

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