Posts tagged with "British"
Saturday, 6. June 2009, 00:37:25
awesomity, always-wanted-to-do-that, quote of the day, British
If you can keep your head when all about you
are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
but make allowance for their doubting too;
if you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
if you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
if you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
if you can meet with triumph and disaster
and treat those two imposters just the same;
if you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
and stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
if you can make one heap of all your winnings
and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
and lose, and start again at your beginnings
and never breath a word about your loss;
if you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
to serve your turn long after they are gone,
and so hold on when there is nothing in you
except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
if you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
if all men count with you, but none too much;
if you can fill the unforgiving minute
with sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
and - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
- Rudyard Kipling
Monday, 12. May 2008, 21:50:14
quote of the day, British, SWASHBUCKLING FUN, Non-Whedon-Television
Captain Foster and Acting Lieutenant Hornblower are lost in the water when the yawl they were aboard earlier before they jumped onto a fireship to turn it off course approaches them.
Captain Hammond, relieved: "Your hand, sir!" Helps the other captain out of the ocean and on board. "Well done, sir, port board. Thank God, sir!"
Captain Foster, furious: "Yes, but no thanks to you, sir!"
Hammond, affronted: "We followed as fast as we could get these rock scorpions to row!"
Foster, turning to the water and helping Hornblower aboard. "Mr. Hornblower, come aboard, sir."
Hammond, aiding: "Mr. Hornblower, sir. Good man."
Foster, turning back to Hammond: "You were supposed to be following to pick us up, sir! I thought at least I could rely on a bloody captain!"
Hammond: "What are you implying?!"
Foster, raising his voice: "I assure you, I make no implication, sir, but others may read implications into a simple statement of fact!"
Hammond, raising his voice as well: "I consider that an offensive remark, sir!"
Foster: "I congratulate you on your perspicacity, sir!"
Hammond: "Would you care to withdraw your statement with an apology?!"
Foster: "I would not!"
Hammond, icily: "Very well. We will continue this further when we reach shore."
Foster: "We will, sir! When I will expect an apology from you!"
Hammond, screaming again: "My God, sir, I will not stand for this! I shall have recompense in a duel at first light!"
Foster: "I shall await that with pleasure, sir!"
Hammond: "I shall send a friend to wait on you!"
Foster: "He will be most welcome!"
- Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
Wednesday, 26. April 2006, 01:16:27
British, politics, nationalism, Jon Stewart
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and yet it still rules 
Also, see this clip for an obnoxious German! And
XD. Just... XD
Friday, 30. December 2005, 14:57:11
Cats, conspiracy-theories, British, musketeers
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And so does the amount of days I've had this non-blog.
I think a rah-rah hoozah is in order. Then again, I'm not seventeenth-century-British, so what do I know.
Man may rule the Earth, but cats actually live in it.
WIDGETIZE