Comments on: “Dog Bites Man”

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:37:49 +0000

It sounds like a good one, a six-oar preserved in clay. They should be able to get most of it out intact. I’m guessing it sank in a bog after being blown ashore as it is a ways inland.

By: jams o donnell

jams o donnell — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:46:50 +0000

A viking vessel in a pub car park can only mean that the designated rower got drunk too… I hope it’s excavated. It wil be the first intact viking vessel found in Britain

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:25:02 +0000

General Eric Shinseki was right and was forced out. Lt. General John Riggs was right and was forced to retire as a Major General. They have driven every leader with guts out of the military and anyone left is suspect.

We have Lt. Colonels writing op-eds suggesting that flag officers are part of the problem, not of the solution.

The military is broken, just like the economy.

By: andante

andante — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:42:24 +0000

The only officers with the courage to shout “Follow me!” must now be anonymous tipsters.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:18:10 +0000

This is what happens during long, relatively peaceful periods – the military high command becomes political. It has become worse since Robert McNamara decided officers should be managers instead of leaders.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:25:07 +0000

The Vikings whose ship was found may have been dead for a thousand years, but their story is less predictable than the one being told at that hearing.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:33:08 +0000

There is some sort of a hearing going on, but Vikings are more interesting.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:21:55 +0000

Re: Spam Song… thanks… I needed that.

Vikings buried under a pub… has anyone thought to test the groundwater? If I were the bartender, I’d worry that the water would compete with the product I sold.

As I’ve probably said before, notwithstanding the elaborate explanations of “viking” as an activity… “let’s go viking,” meaning pillaging and plundering… I believe the word is really a misunderstanding of what villagers said when they saw them coming: “Lookit all them viking warriors!”