The World Championship Wife-Carrying competition.
In 1992, the people of Sonkaj?
|
|||||
Hot Mic
Bloggers in Arms
BlogrollContinuous WavePaid to BlogReciprocating EnginesSmarter'n MeWingmen
OmakaseAmazon Search |
Ouch » Another reason to love the FinnsBy lex, on June 28th, 2006
June 28th, 2006 | Category: Small Stuff
5 comments to Another reason to love the Finns |
Targets of Opportunityblog advertising is good for you Credo"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones "Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra" "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche "A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke “You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier "Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas "Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex Amazon AssociateFor the Effort!Winnar! Subscribe CategoriesPagesTagsacademy
afghanistan
Araby
Blogging
buffoonery
culture
Defense Industry
economy
Flying
Friday Musings
geopol
Gratuitous slap
GWOT
Headlines
health care
History
iran
iraq
issues
libya
Media
Memory Lane
Military
Navy
norks
Oz
pakistan
piracy
politicians
politics
Politics and Culture
prc
pundits
science
sea stories
silliness
Small Stuff
SoCal
Tech Lust
technology
UAVs
UK
usaf
usmc
weapons
|
|||
|
Copyright © 2013 Neptunus Lex - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
Speaking of which, I have been most ungracious in neglecting to have you pass my regards to the lovely Hobbit (such an ungainly nom de plume for such a wonderful woman, surely there’s a story here that I missed). If she was half as kind to your nuggets as she was to me in the day, she would have been the finest skipper’s wife ever there was. Please give her my best.
She did a highly creditable job, thanks for remembering.
CAPT Lex,
“highly creditable job”
I’m pretty sure that is simply understatement. She’s just asking you to be humble, right?
If not, then I take back what I said about your command of the English language.
Subsunk
Oh, you’re very right, Subsunk. She’s a good deal better than that (and a great deal more humble than she has a right to be). It just sometimes feels that I’m luckier than a man has a right to be, and I’ve always been suspicious about bragging on good luck.
An aviator, suspicious about bragging? Surely CAPT Lex, you jest. Or at least someone must be attaching electrical leads to your “humblethalamus gland” and cranking up the power, making you more humble than most.
I’m determined, however, to avoid the internaval free for all going on over at the Milblog site on your recent post above about the 3 CVN exercise.
Although I would normally be defending my former duty stations, I find that the contributions made by all my other brothers in arms seem to be a bit more applicable today. Of course, should a Taiwan conflict erupt, I’m sure my steel boats will be a major part of the action, and yet we’ll still never hear anything from the Men who end up firing a Mk 48 warshot in anger should that happen.
Have a great day, sir, and give the missus my best.
Subsunk