View From The Porch: L'esprit de l'escalier...

Saturday, December 17, 2011

L'esprit de l'escalier...

Ooh! I captioned it wrong the first time...

For the Visigoths among you: The punchline, decoded.
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13 comments:

Tango Juliet said...: Oh Tam, you're priceless. :); 3:21 PM, December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...: Do they know it's Christams time at all?; 4:43 PM, December 17, 2011
Montie said...: OMG, as a born and bred Okie I can appreciate this one, but as a former 11B/11A, I DID spew coffee over the 46R caption this morning ;); 6:18 PM, December 17, 2011
Sport Pilot said...: After spending an entire day in a grad school class all I wanted was a cold beer, sandwich and to relax. Now I've sprayed beer on my keyboard and laughed enough to feel much better. Thanks Tam, I owe you one.; 7:57 PM, December 17, 2011
DaddyBear said...: Why do I have "The Ballad of the Green Berets" going through my head?; 9:07 PM, December 17, 2011
David said...: "So join in the folk song army!
Guitars are the weapons we bring
To the fight against poverty, war, and injustice.
Ready! aim! sing!"
~~ Tom Lehrer; 9:09 PM, December 17, 2011
Henry Blowfly said...: Johnny Cash wrote his war song:

"Don't Take Your Guns To Town".; 9:34 PM, December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...: Pure Ostrogoth here.

-SPQR; 11:12 PM, December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...: And only in a medical unit, do you end up as top shooter in the company when you qualify. But you're a 61F. Loved the tactical 42R!

I am not high speed. When I was a PL, once told my maverick first squad leader his job was to keep me from doing something stupid. And he whispered in formation "Sir, you're about to do something stupid."

DrBaboon; 11:41 PM, December 17, 2011
Cybrludite said...: I've got an old bass guitar case that I'm converting into a low-profile rifle case. That's going to be one of the stickers plastered on the side.; 12:32 PM, December 18, 2011
Bram said...: Strum your guitar if you prefer Islamofascism to the regular kind.; 5:11 PM, December 18, 2011
Justthisguy said...: Guitarists are even worse than saxophonists, most of them. Some of them are kinda musician-like, which is more than I can say for saxophonists.

There is a good reason why most boilerplate leases used to have a saxophone clause in them.; 2:45 AM, December 19, 2011
Robert said...: The Scots have the bagpipes, so why not?; 9:04 AM, December 19, 2011