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
Don’t tell the QLD born Wombette- Bigger teeth and a nasty disposition if(when) provoked!
IN OZ, it always go back to the relations between MEN & their partners….where do you think the phrase ” Where Men are Men and Sheep are scared…” came from ???
My son was a member of the Strike Force with the USS John C Stennis that was on duty for Iraqi 1 – when they finished , the captain had the strike force pull into OZ for a R&R break – One of the most famous “houses of ill repute” there had to SHUT DOWN because after three days of the Fleet being in port, the poor working girls REFUSED to have sex with any more MEN !! This was the first time in the thirty year history of this “house” being open that they had to shut down…. GO NAVY !!
Gentlemen …You should never NEVER underestimate the power of older ladies when they are really really *angry*. How the heck do you think we survived long enough to become ‘older ladies?’ Hooray for Mrs. Trumbull. And bless her.
Marianne
Glad to see that she discouraged the shark. I think she might have done better and got less hurt had she taken the latest advice, and not punched the nose, but poked an eyeball. Works even better with a knife.
As I have mentioned here, I have met an Indianapolis survivor. Shudder!
I hope Mrs. Trumbull gets the best bionic ass medical technology can devise for her
Given the circumstances, frikkin lasers should be incorporated. I also hope that shark now associates the taste of human with pain and humiliation and will go off and become the first chondithric vegan.
I should think it was probably a bull. Whites have an attack profile of hit once hard, and then back off and let the victim bleed out. It’s the sheer size of the beasts that allow them to do such damage with one chomp.
…I have to have a new, remodelled bottom, so that’s a positive.”
You have GOT to love that kind of spirit. A shark nearly kills her and she’s looking at the bright side.
With an attitude like that, the shark really didn’t stand a chance.