Valour-IT Challenge: Snarks Inbound
So – get a couple hundred bucks ahead and Team Zoomie starts feelin’ their oats? Laugh it up folks – here’s your future:
So – get a couple hundred bucks ahead and Team Zoomie starts feelin’ their oats? Laugh it up folks – here’s your future:
If the economy doesn’t pick up after our efforts this weekend in support of the new home (almost finished) then nothing will move it off T.D.C. … 😕
Thanks (not) to Skippy-san for tagging me with this meme… Seven Songs List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal/blog along with your seven…
“So when all else fails, when all the negotiations have broken down, when there is a missile in the air, you have to have the ability to destroy it. Because the only other ability you would have is to apologize to the relatives of those who died.” — —
RTB today from our Midwestern sojourn. Some news we will be posting on the morrow – in the meantime an update on the Vikramaditya (“Brave as the Sun”) via Barents Observer shows that it has been floated from dry dock (or beaching as was the case):
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As I said over at Mike’s…that pic IS pretty funny! But…that said… here’s a lil bit of dialog from “The B-58″…er…The Hustler:
Fast Eddie: You know, I got a hunch, fat man. I got a hunch it’s me from here on in. One ball, corner pocket. I mean, that ever happen to you? You know, all of a sudden you feel like you can’t miss? ‘Cause I dreamed about this game, fat man. I dreamed about this game every night on the road. Five ball. You know, this is my table, man. I own it.
Hmm, you do realize the ultimate outcome of that match between Eddie and Fats… 😎
– SJS
Awesome pic!
Loose change inbound, for Navy!
Excellent! Большое ÑпаÑибо! 😀
– SJS
Yup…I do indeed, SJS. But really now…who would you rather be? Paul Newman? Or Jackie Gleason? 😆
… George C. Scott… 8)
– SJS
…wasn’t an option. But, not a bad choice, even if he DID play a famous Grunt. 😉
You didn’t ask, but I wouldn’t mind being Jimmy Stewart. Or someone like him. 😎
Oh, but it is:
The Hustler (1961)
Cast (in credits order)
Paul Newman … Eddie Felson
Jackie Gleason … Minnesota Fats
Piper Laurie … Sarah Packard
George C. Scott … Bert Gordon
Quotes:
Bert Gordon: I don’t think there’s a pool player alive shoots better pool than I saw you shoot the other night at Ames. You got talent.
Fast Eddie: So I got talent. So what beat me?
Bert Gordon: Character.
8)
– SJS
I stand corrected!! 😳