Originally Posted by
Martin the Martian
I'm still trying to work out how water can be flooded by something else.
Well perhaps in the [ceasar] salad days of the empire:
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
So Shakespeare suggests that if you don't flood the tide with money it will end in tears, and:
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves
Or lose our ventures.
He also suggests that as a result we'll have to sell off the ATC motor-glider fleet.
Seemples...
PDR