There’s an old Irish joke that we’re sure you know (but that won’t stop us from repeating it). A city gent asks an Irish yokel, “How do I get to Donegal, my good man?”
To which the yokel responds, “Well, if I were you, I wouldn’t start from here.”
The trouble is that we do have to start from somewhere, even though the yokel has a point—and his whimsical observation takes on the air of supreme
