Right before Santa Anna's attack,Bowie + Crockett are on the parapet of the wall watching a veritable sea of Mexicans coming at them;so Crockett says to Bowie in consternation, "Were we expecting a concrete pour today?"
Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal. John E Pfeiffer, The Emergence of Man
Those who can't skin, can hold a leg. Abraham Lincoln