Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Sunday, April 15, 2012

The Titanic Sank. Get Over It.

Today is the 100th anniversary of the goddamn ship's sinking. Gilded Age, steerage passengers mostly drowned, women & children first, Edwardian-age hubris, unsinkable ship, inadequate rudder, insufficient lifeboats, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Tomorrow, can we all give it a rest until the 150th anniversary?

2 comments:

Marc said...

Or, as the joke goes:

Q: What do you get when you cross the Atlantic with the Titanic?

A: About half way.

Eck! said...

From an entirely different prospective.. That was the event that put amateur radio on the map as more than a novelty radio hobby. Many of the shore stations handling the messages going both ways were not commercial stations as they were few and over worked. Many of the then newly established amateur stations were also doing exactly the same work of exchanging traffic. The bulk of the traffic was what is called health and welfare.

Titanic was a disaster, no question. But the events of the time were significant in that radio became important and maritime rules around radio
were formalized around safety.

Eck!