Quotes

[Actionjick]

Have I aligned with a blown mind?
Wasted my time with a drawn blind?

FZ

 

[synicbast]

.if you go before me, consider leaving your dice rolling hand to me, I've already picked out the walnut and silver stick on which to mount it.

- Gary Fortenberry

 

[Actionjick]

There is a world of difference between lying and prevarication in the interest of self preservation.

Skulky

 

[Actionjick]

Balance is an illusion.

Actionburk

 

[Actionjick]

He ate what was set before him.

An Imperial Space Marine's epitaph.

Haven't read the book this came from in well over fifty years but this always stuck with me.

 

[Hutch]

 

[Actionjick]

Stand up. That's right, stand up. Very many of you are standing up. Some of you aren't standing up but you won't have as much fun as those who are.

Zappa in concert.

 

[Old Noob]

"I've had all I can stand, and I can't stands no more!" - Popeye the Sailor (before his PMC)

 

[Actionjick]

" Captain how often does a little ship like this sink?"
" Usually just once. "

 

[Actionjick]

" This is 84 Georgia. Won't do no good. "

81 Georgia to 84 Georgia. " 84 Georgia, if you're scared, go back to the carrier. "

" This is 84 Georgia. I'll go anywhere you go. God damn it. "

Leyte Gulf. Taffy 3 is under attack. Two pilots from a CVE debating which Japanese ships to attack with their 100 lb. bombs. 84 Georgia wants to go after destroyers. 81 Georgia has a bigger target in mind, a battleship.

 

[Actionjick]

" This is 84 Georgia. Won't do no good. "

81 Georgia to 84 Georgia. " 84 Georgia, if you're scared, go back to the carrier. "

" This is 84 Georgia. I'll go anywhere you go. God damn it. "

Leyte Gulf. Taffy 3 is under attack. Two pilots from a CVE debating which Japanese ships to attack with their 100 lb. bombs. 84 Georgia wants to go after destroyers. Georgia 81 has a bigger target in mind, a battleship.

I love that kind of stuff. Seriously brings tears to my eyes but I am a softie and Colonel Cuervo and Captain Bacchus don't help.

From Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. A good read.

As the author said this was more of a motivational statement. Apparently it worked.

 

[Hutch]

From the movie U-571

• Marine Maj. Coonan: How deep does this thing go?
• Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: Oh, she'll go all the way to the bottom if we don't stop her.

Yes, I know. Not historically accurate, but an OK action movie (much better than Pearl Harbor.)
The British got the Enigma in May 1941.

 

[Ric of The LBC]

From the movie U-571

• Marine Maj. Coonan: How deep does this thing go?
• Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: Oh, she'll go all the way to the bottom if we don't stop her.

Yes, I know. Not historically accurate, but an OK action movie (much better than Pearl Harbor.)
The British got the Enigma in May 1941.

is there any movie worse than Pearl Harbor?

 

[Actionjick]

Anxieties are the test and penalty of greatness.
A. T. Mahan

 

[Old Noob]

Operation Petticoat quote:

Will the Sea Tiger go down?
Like a rock, sir!

 

[Actionjick]

The whole question of whether we win or lose the war depends on the Russians.
FDR

 

[JimWhite]

“How old would you be if you didn’t know the day you were born?” - Toby Keith

 

[Old Noob]

"If I knew when I was younger, that I'd get this old I would have taken better care of myself!"

 

[Actionjick]

I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
Calvin

 

[dlazov]

"Some things get better with age. Like me."
Keith Richards