Not that they have a hundred or a thousand legs but because it’s really common for people to stop counting once they’ve gotten to 36.
Such as a fellow who calls himself an “American Patriot” and links his comment name to a Fox website. Mentioned in the Pizza thread some really stupid number of “50” people in the People’s Parade against the Wall Street Thieves. Apparently the fellow is rather upset that anybody would blaspheme against his god Capital and wishes to sneer it away. Much like the assmunch Banksters leaning over their balconies, drinking champagne and sneering, protected by the NYPD. The fact that they were so heavily guarded and the protesters peaceful allowed those sneers. Here’s a screenshot of part of a video from the protest. 
there’s more than 50 people in the first column of people not counting the cops. Now, if the THOUSANDS of people had been of a mind to do so, they could have overwhelmed the more than 50 cops and just dragged the smug Wall Street Thieves off their balconies and given them a collective enema with their own champagne and caviar. Which, given the recent history of Europe, bankrupted not by their “socialist giveaways” but by their backing of the Very Expensive War Of Conquest which benefits only the Wealthiest, and that only temporarily….
The bloody parts of the riots against the Wealthy, after stealing the entire treasury of each his own particular country, like Greece, England… actually the entire treasury of the European Union has gone down the tubes for the benefit of Wall Street banksters. Same as our treasury. And with all that, they sit on balconies drinking champagne and mocking the peaceful protests against their demands that the Working Class, and not themselves, should be forcibly placed on Austerity.
Franklin Roosevelt bought off a revolution that would have made Red October look like a High School promenade. Bought it off with higher taxes on the Rich which so far hasn’t happened during this current privileged-class created market crash. He was considered a traitor to “his class” but as much as they bitterly resented having to pay their fair share in life, they at least weren’t dragged from their mansions, hanged by their own intestines in their own immaculately trimmed trees and then lit on fire while still alive.
Their subsequent machinations of the past eight decades to strip the Workers of their hard earned cash, benefits and other pay, have succeeded to the point they believe they’ll be able to survive without us.
They are of course wrong, they didn’t gain their wealth by the sweat of their own brow, (as prescribed in the Book of Genesis) but by the sweat of OUR brow.
The police on whom they depend for protection, also working class and, in NYC, union. They’ve already told the police they’ll be cutting their benefits and pay as well. Rather foolish, that.
What will they be able to pay the guardians of their castles, once their wealth is reduced to exactly anything that fits within the walls of those castles? What would keep their guardians, the ones on whom they place so much contempt and disrespect, from merely killing them and taking the entirety of their hoards? Fealty, perhaps? Devotion to a legal system which their Masters discarded long ago?
The truly amazing part is they actually believe their own hype, get high on their own supply, all the rules that keep regular mid-level thieves alive and mostly out of jail, they’ve discarded such rules.
They actually believe that they’re so smart and the rest of us so stupid they’ll be able to roll over us forever. Poor stupid bastards. They don’t even have the physical courage or characteristics needed to employ brutality on their own part, they’re so used to having others fight for them.
