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
Gee Thanks Lex,
Another cold shower for Skippy tonight. Just when I was getting over the AC-130 pic…
At least I have my first poster for the stateroom on cruise.
Oh man,
Did you take a close look at the embroidery on that jacket? That’s the sort of attention to detail, the really nice hand work that you just don’t see anymore. No sir. Why, it takes real talent to do that sort of work, exceptional patience and eye-hand coordination.
Make a man proud to own something like that. Look nice in the closet. The sort of thing that would say to the world what a discriminating gentleman you are.
And what cloth! Look how it drapes over her figure, the way it highlights, yet develops her curves and proportions.
Lex, I’d say you were a well-schooled gentleman, a man of the old club set. Get yourself a nice smoking jacket of that same material, a fez and some red morrocan leather slippers. Be quite dapper if you ask me!
Girl? What girl? Where…. ohhhhh….
Nevermind…..
AW1,
Thought I was going to take a cold shower based upon the girl, but your description of the jacket is hot!
If I ever need to sell something, you’re writing the product description. I think you could sell male enhancement pills to John Holmes.
Not to mention that this ensemble was cobbled together with *phenomenal* speed (if I recall the story correctly) and under battlefield conditions, thus foreshadowing the origins of the curious ability of the inhabitants of Tokyo to rebuild the entire city from rubble in the short time between Godzilla movies.
Did you find that poster for purchase, or just as an advertisement? Because that would look good on my wall…
The fez and slippers are certain to command respect . However, you need another male vote “around the campfire”. You’re outnumbered.
Chick with a sword…chick witha knife-either one is a dangerous combination. Anybody remember Lorena Bobbit?
For that matter I don’t get the whole chicks with guns thing. Does not do anything for me.
Just another thing for them to screw you over with…………..
Nice top, short skirt, boots-looking like a real woman on the other hand………………….
I don’t need to see combative women any day of the week. I’ve had my fill of them.
Seeing women in battle garb looks as incongruous as men in a frilly dresses.
Post-modern horsepucky.
Dammit, Skippy, let’s leave it to criticism of her style and technique with that blade, leaving out your own emotional issues.
Sure, you’ve gotten laid many more times than I, but I have not suffered from one of those horror-divorces, either.
Cute Girl. Wielding Sword.
Talk about cuteness of girl. Talk about wielding of sword. Maybe talk about intersection of cuteness of girl and wielding of sword.
Plz not to talk about grumpiness about bad choice of wummun for marriage, even after all these years. You still got, and are prolly still getting, more of something that, to be blunt, rhymes with blunt, than I ever will.
Ya picked a bad ‘un. Made a bad choice. Get over it.
Anybody wants to help me get over *my* previous bad choices, well, Lex has my email addy
I clicked and clicked on this pic, thinking it was maybe like one of “Theo Spark’s”. No joy!
For me, there’s too much embroidery…
JTG,
To each his own. I’m just saying I like my women a little different.
As for the bitterness…what makes you think I’m bitter?
Just cause I understand OJ and all….
Actually lex, I have the upper part of that poster rendered as background for my laptop in 1920 x 1200.
However, I do not usually use it. Only when I need to be remembered not to endlessly browse in the internet but to do the tax declaration or some other kind of lengthy tedious homework.
I then bring out the trash, too.
After watching my three battalion commanders (all female) and three adjutants (all female) try to handle ceremonial swords every morning while squeaking out, “All present and accounter for, ma’am!” sounding like Miss Piggy (no, really, busting my side trying not to break out laughing in formation every damned morning), using their whole bodies in a desperate attempt to swing that single blade into a salute…
Well, this chicks and swords business is just pure fantasy, isn’t it? To each his own.
I agree with Zane. Boudicca was a big ol-scary redheaded sword swinger but that frail blonde looks like she’s swingin something plastic. A fantasy- Lexxies. LOL.
b2
Eh. Here’s what real sword work looks like.
Lady Star! i live to walk the Glory Road for you!
Hmmm.
Where can I get a poster such as this?
Better not tell me, Household 6 would likely scold me until death do us part.
Where might one buy such a poster? Oh.
Here, I suppose. Just beware. They’ll make you hang it up behind a door that’s always open. Or in the back of a closet.
Seems such a waste.
I tend to agree with JTG. People – well, guys anyway – that don’t like pictures of beautiful women with swords are somehow threatened by, you know: Beautiful women. With swords.
Once more, an ignorant question. Who is she? Or, what movie is that poster from? Offhand I do not recognize either the actress or the movie scene.
Also, my compliments to AW1 Tim on his superlative description of her outfit
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Linc
That’s Keira Knightley, starring in one or another of those “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies. “Dead Man’s Chest” I believe. Never saw it.
Saw the poster.
Yours is in your house? Lucky. I had to put my poster in the garage.
Lex, that would be “Piratse of the Caribbean: At World’s End”.
If you like girls. with swords. You should see it.
Captain Swann, arriving….
Sideboys should salute smartly if they want to keep their heads.
Wow, that didn’t look like Keira Knightley to me at all. I even saw the subject movies, every one!
Ah well, age and senility is creeping up on me.
Linc
I agree with Linc,and we are going to have to change MajMike’s call sign to Oscar, I’ll be Rufo
Unkawill, can you a good job of shaving a dead man?
Um, “do” a good job of shaving a dead man.
I wish we had preview here.
Skippy not afraid of girl with sword,
Skippy afraid of girl with lawyer.
BWA HAHAHAHA.
JTG,
I can shave anything, I have my Barbers license, What I really want is one of those folding closets, and to be fed in the kitchen, where the food is hotter and the selection is better
Man oh man, that Knightley girl is fiiiiine.
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Hey, Lex. I you want a cool movie poster, check this one out.
http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_12618.html
It’s THE SPIRIT created by Will Eisner. If you know the character, then you will see how very cool this poster is. Samuel Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eve Mendes and Gabriel Macht.. plus another biggie to be named.
That is pretty cool. But I’d have to do a lot of explaining at home.
With the Keira Knightley poster, no explanation is required. The ladies think I’m some sort of pig.
Which, ya know…