The Off Topic Topic

[Tonitrus]

View image, magnify.

Though on my screen, it's plenty big.

That would take too much effort.

[Lettow77]

 I wish I had the talent to write something like To An Athlete Dying Young.

[Eddie Teach]

Female bears are called sows? 

[DGuller]

Life an Alaskan bear, Grizzly Boar 6041 (code name: katmai):

:snort:

[garbon]

Off to my first writing class!

[Josephus]

Watching the AMC show Hell on Wheels, a post US Civil War era show filmed mostly in Neil and BB country. Anyways, they used the term "trench foot" which surprised me. I thought that was a WW1 term, but I guess it predates that?

[Ed Anger]

Watching the AMC show Hell on Wheels, a post US Civil War era show filmed mostly in Neil and BB country. Anyways, they used the term "trench foot" which surprised me. I thought that was a WW1 term, but I guess it predates that?

While I don't know if they used that term, but I bet they had that problem at Vicksburg and Petersburg.

[Ed Anger]

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin says the United States may have rendered their Phobos-Grunt Mars spacecraft useless using a radar installation on the Marshall Islands.

LOL, Russians.

[Habbaku]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/9009651/The-British-POW-who-stitched-an-insult-to-Hitler.html

Major Alexis Casdagli, who was taken prisoner in 1941, had turned to embroidery as a way of protecting his sanity against the tedium of POW life but he also found it provided a means of covert resistance.

An innocent looking tapestry stitched by the officer in December 1941 bears the rather bland text stating the name and location of its creator and the date. But in a border surrounding the text Major Casdagli also stitched a series of dots and dashes, which in Morse code spelt out "God Save the King" and "---- Hitler".

Unaware of the hidden message but impressed with the captive officer's needlework, the Germans even put it on display.

"It used to give him pleasure when the Germans were doing the rounds," Tony Casdagli, the major's 79-year-old son, told the Daily Mail.

"It also stopped him going mad. He would say after the war that the Red Cross saved his life but his embroidery saved his sanity."

Despite the risk of a keen-eyed German guard deciphering the Morse message the piece of embroidery was hung on walls at all the camps Major Casdagli stayed in till his release in 1945.

Tony Casdagli also revealed that his father had stitched on a flap to a Union Jack, bearing the message "Do not open": a mocking reference to a Nazi law banning the British flag.

The major continued to embroider till his death in 1990 but his tapestry with its coded words of defiance is now on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

[Lettow77]

 Doldrums, tedium, megrims and the outrages of life's low points are absolutely worth the wonderful ebullience that from time to time enraptures me.

I am so very fond of all of you, Languish!
mina-san, arigato~

[CountDeMoney]

Blow it out your ass.

[Lettow77]

[jimmy olsen]

If only Sav was still here.

[Eddie Teach]

They cast Anne Frank and Frau Katt as humans? Disappointing.

[Ideologue]

I cannot get my fucking sleep schedule back on track.  It doesn't matter if I work at 10, I'm still up now at 5, and I just sleep till 2 the next chance I get.

Ugh.