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
Roll tide… and if you’re an Auburn fan it’s:
War Eagle!
We keep our stocks up in Texas, too. No Neville Chamberlains here.
Go Vols?
Quote at a meeting held here: ” It is football season now and this is Alabama. If you hold a meeting on Friday afternoon, you are just asking for trouble. We have our traditions to uphold here……….”
Tell me this PR sprung from the fertile brain of Lexx–Tell me it is not an ACTUAL release (side-splittingly funny as it is.) Please, for the love of God, tell me.
Lex, that’s “Roll Tide” with a capital “T”…
I’d comment longer, but am using my lunch hour to lay in supplies – already got my ammo.
And thats’ herself, from whose fecund mind the original notion sprang
Another reminder why even if I live in New York the rest of my life, I will never apologize for growing up in the South.
Go Hogs, Beat Bama!
Go Gators, whup ‘em all! (chomp…chomp…chomp!)
A hillbilly farmer named Hollis
Used possums and snakes for his solace
His children had scales
And prehensile tails
And voted for Governor Wallace
Hold it. This close to the start of hunting season, I’d bet that the boys (and G.R.I.T.S.) of Alabama could fight for 2 weeks before they needed ammunition resupply.
Not to mention, I don’t care how much time they trained in Cuba or Venezuela, the Russian Army would wilt trying to take Alabama in August.
Peter,
My Gunny at NSI in Newport was from Auburn and “WAR EAGLE” was our war cry at each sighting of him and while doing numerous Mountainclimbers, Fartleks and 8 count body builders in the infamous Poodle sized Goose S%^t next to the bay.
As a result, everytime I hear/read WAR EAGLE, I have severe reactions, although not quite as bad as years ago; shortly after the conclusion of the aforementioned experience, when those two words resulted in unfortunate accidents, including some of the advertised side effects of Olestra….
PS, thats a heck of a runon…
How many rounds of ammo and reloading components are enough? Well, getting to the point of thinking about converting an outer cellar to a magazine is a good start.
Yep, I’m there.
Wow, my guns seem to breed in the safe all on their own. Three months ago, I had 1 gun, ostensibly for defense purposes. Yesterday, popped open the safe and there were 5. And there’s room for more!!
But, how much ammo IS too much ammo? ‘Cause, I always thought it was about 1000, but now. . .not so much.
If, pound for pound, your ammunication weighs more than your total available food supply (including food currently walking around on his/her own two/four feet), then you’ll have too much ammo.
Otherwise, no such thing.
*snort*
I wouldn’t want to be a soldier in any army trying to pacify Alabama, or Texas, or North Carolina, or Tennessee, or….
Too much ammo?
Cocks head, trying to wrap mind around that concept … Naaaaaah! That’s unpossible!
blah blah blah Tide..
yada yada Gators..
bippity bippity Hogs…
hmm. evidently there just MIGHT be some kind of athletic contest out there other than the one in 101 days, wherein the mighty Army team will beat the wool out of that scrofulous goat.
not saying there ARE other contests, just MIGHT be other contests.
…huh, who knew?
Four things you will never find:
Too big a gun safe; Too much ammo; Too much whiskey; Unicorns (the Cajuns done et em all)
Mike
I thought the Unicorns missed boarding the Ark.
They read the departure schedule wrong or got held up in Security……………..
These must have been the higher educated Alabamians as they were aware Georgia could be close and was more than just a football team or a breed of dog.
Go Gators!
Army doesn’t have a chance.
This red-neck, goat-roping, revival meeting has been most entertaining…thanks y’all. Best
Skippy:
If you do happen to find a Unicorn – remember , never play leap frog with one.
What? No link? Or didja just fabricate this yourownself, Lex? I SO wanna steal this…
I was inspired by Miss Birdlegs, from Alabama. Who I know wouldn’t mind if you borrowed this.
Oh, but the Russians do want Alabama…
http://kaphtor.blogspot.com/2008/08/evidence-that-russians-may-be-planning.html
Badly.
Claudio,
So, what year at NSI? I was there in ’81 learning the all important steam cycle.
Curtis.
I was there in 92. I already knew the steam cycle. Funny story re Steam, when I took my ESWS board in 88 as YN3, first question was from the OPS guy to describe the Steam cycle on the boat. after I drew it with a whole lotsa extras, the BTC mentioned I was a Snipe for 2 years. thus ended the engineering questions. My hardest topic whilst also one of the most fascinating was Celestial Nav. Thank God my neighbor was a QMC.