Dear Blog Guy, I read somewhere that there is a shortage of officers in the Russian Navy. Why might that be?
Well, this actual photo from a recent military school graduation in Vladivostok might help explain the problem. These guys are celebrating by drinking champagne from a bowl festooned with daggers.
This raises the question of who didn’t graduate, if these dudes are the cream of the crop? It also makes the question of whether you want your drink shaken or stirred seem kind of trivial, by comparison.
Naval officer candidates drink champagne from a pot containing their uniform daggers as they celebrate their graduation from a military institute in Vladivostok June 20, 2007. REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev
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He wasn’t the sharpest knife in the pot, was he?
- Posted by Lady WeaselYou call that a knife?
- Posted by John C AbellI went back and counted, John. That’s the 34th time you’ve used “You call that a knife?” as a comment for a blog item.
- Posted by Robert BaslerHuh. I, on the other hand, have detected absolutely no repetativeness in your posts.
Apropos of nothing, when’s the next Victoria’s Secret press conference? I mean, it’s been days, hasn’t it?
- Posted by John C AbellI’ll have a dry champagne, one olive, stabbed repeatedly, not stirred.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksMmmmm. Backwash.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksPoorrr paysont cheeldrin. Zay no nahzing ap-hout champagne. Ve safe mahch mahneys, vile zay hayppy dreenkeenk geengerrrale viz a leetle wotka.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksTastes tinny.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksTo heck with the Red October. Where the heck is the tip of my nose?
- Posted by Shawn HendricksDo you suffer from Dagger Envy?
- Posted by Shawn HendricksNo, Sir! I don’t want none of them prowling around MY belly button.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksPssst. John. He counted all the way to 34. Write something nice.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksDang. There goes my contact.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksC’mon, Ivan. Is it soup yet?
- Posted by Shawn HendricksI don’t know about you…but the whole shirtless elf thing is kind of a turn-off for me.
- Posted by KDmitri scowled. The old lady had said that this would rid him of the plague of shirtless midgets, but he was still suspicious.
- Posted by Charlene