Even if they were - and we all know you're just trying to push some buttons again - if this is the real big one that'll break CIG, it'll mean all the other proclamations were true as well. You see, Derek is right and it's just a matter of time before you will have to admit to that fact too. You're just one of those people who can't believe the boy with the good eyes who's constantly spotting the dangerous animal hidden in the bushes. You only see it when it's out in the open field running towards you trying to get you.
With you citing Aesop you are trying to imply that Derek has been warning for the crash of CIG so often now, that people just won't believe him anymore. Too many false warnings will drown out the true one. The thing is, in this story it's basically the other way around. Almost nobody believed Derek the first time around. With every proclamation, the number of people actually accepting that Derek has a much better vision than most of us, grew. What now remains is the group of people who are almost looking right into the open mouth of the animal but still refuse to acknowlegde there's a beast out there. Those who believed Derek earlier are standing at a safe distance just waiting to see the spectacle when the animal starts biting and having a bloody feast.
What's even funnier, is this: the
definition of boy cried wolf is:
The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index.[1] From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give a false alarm" in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable[2] and glossed by the Oxford English Dictionary as meaning to make false claims, with the result that subsequent true claims are disbelieved.[3] So, by quoting Aesop, you are actually stating that there is a true warning that will get lost. Which doesn't change the fact that that warning was true. So basically, you are admitting that Derek is right.
Oh, did you know, wolfs aren't a danger to men. Men are a danger to wolfs... that's another thing wrong with Aesop.
