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
I understand that the plebes in ’69 did the job in just 90 seconds. Could that be true? If so, how was it done?
The statue didn’t used to be greased, that’s where some of the really fast times came from.
I heard from my room mate that this year’s cover was a female cover from one of their classmates that passed away during the year. Nice gesture, if you ask me…
~Ens Tim
I have to say, I always knew a female cover would make it up there (my year, one was handed up to the top, and very obviously hurled with force back to the bottom). . . this is probably the best way it could have happened. Nobody wants his/her class to be “that class.”
Peter- I believe ’69 was the year when one plebe brought a cargo net and threw it over the top, then climbed it like a ladder. Such hijinks are now verboten, although every couple of years some guy tries to make a rope ladder out of everyone’s discarded whiteworks. Never seen it work, but the falls it causes are entertaining.