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
Yowzers!!! Wait till I tell the wife I know the great looking blonde inside the Garmin she has in her car (and my beloved blonde would get lost in a locked closet, sad to say)
Garmin is truly missing an advertising opportunity. Put the face on the box.
Does it have an add on module that compliments you on your flying skills (whether or not you have any)? That would amp sales even more.
Probably an upgrade from “Bitchin Betty” I suspect…
Awesome! After much procrastination, review analysis, comparison shopping and down selection I just this week bought my lovely bride the Garmin 255W. A marvelous machine, full of features and function for less than a couple hunnerd.
And it comes with a blonde sheila in the box!
Better’n Larry the cable guy voice option, “hey dickweed, I sed turn left and whot-knot, yer as lost as a skinny feller at a country buffet, thatz funny raht there, I don’t care who ya are….”
Byron, are you sure that’s wise?
My wife is utterly certain that the ring in my nose is firmly in place
She’s also certain that I’m one of those old fashioned fellas that understands completely that married means married.
What I really like about the Garmin devices is the ability to use them to get around traffic situations when I run up on slow or dead stop traffic. I like hearing ‘recalculating’ and knowing the face behind the voice is a plus.
She sure is easy on the eyes.
Hmm, I will have to listen to her on my GPS when next I use it.
I am tempted to switch from my TomTom, however, waiting for a pic of the TomTom girl before I decide….
She isn’t my cup of tea, and BC “thatz funny “
All I can say is…. wow.
Good thing I already got me a good-lookin’ blonde!
I must have twins…
I like the way she says, “Arriving at destination.” She sounds so pleased with herself. I also don’t mind hearing recalculating. It usually means I messed up and she is going to help me recover.
Navig8r–I don’t mind hearing “recalculating” in either Brit or Aussie accent. The American voice makes “recalculating” sound surly–”recalculating-because-you-messed-up, you idiot.”
I knew it! All those sultry female voices on different freqs in the Gulf were really coming from bombshell blondes and not ugly Betty’s.
I picked up a Garmin 265WT last month, and was working my way through the various voices, as I didn’t like the default voice. When I got to Karen’s voice, my three-year-old cast her vote saying, “She sounds friendlier than the others”, and so Karen-from-Australia has now become the GPS voice in our household.
It doesn’t hurt that reading about her in the piece makes her seem even friendlier, either.