Swiss Guard and Pope

◇ Swiss Guard and Pope

The pope has always asked three questions to the new Swiss Guard at the Vatican:

"How long can you fast?"

"How old are you?"

"Are all your parents alive?"

But these questions are always in the same order.

The guards, who did not know Italian, would memorize a few words of Italian and answer only in that order.

One day, however, the Pope changed the order of the questions.

"How old are you?"

"It's Eve."

"How long can you fast?"

"It's 24 years."

Upon hearing the answer, the pope said, unable to contain his laughter.

"One of us must be spinning."

Then the valiant Swiss Guard answered the third question with a louder voice.

"Yes, Pope, both!"

◇ 按圖索驥

The term "find the cheollima as illustrated" is used to describe the way things are handled by only principles and principles without flexibility.

Baengnak was originally called Sonyang, a member of the Jin Dynasty during the Spring and Autumn Period. There was a saying about him, "There is a heavenly horse after the thunder, so there is always a heaven, but there is not always a white rock."

But Baengnak had a slightly obtuse son. One day the son looked at the toad and said to the white rock,

"I found a good horse. "The bulky forehead and the bulging eyes are exactly what they are in my father's book, just the hoofs look a little different."

"I know what you're looking for is a good runner, but I can't drive a wagon," he said with a great laugh. 

This is where the old idiom, "baeknaekja," which compares foolish people, comes from.

Originating from this, the color of relief is usually compared to being too tied to principle and principle when dealing with something and not being able to show any flexibility at all.

* I prefer flexible vice to stubborn virtue.

- Moliere

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