Lone Ghurka takes on 40 railroad bandits. And wins.
Apparently he was disinclined to resort to violence … until the robbers started to rape a girl.
Fighting the enemy in battle is my duty as a soldier; taking on the dacoits in the train was my duty as a human being.
Tiger mothers, lion fathers, and G.K. Chesterton.
Proving there’s no juxtaposition too improbable for the Junior Ganymede.
(h/t/ Joseph Hertzlinger)
Though I’m not certain our culture is really short on epithets, and in need of more.
Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel as played for priesthood meeting by a convert aunt of Sally DeFord who played piano for silent movies: link.
I’m no dittohead. But there have been a couple of occasions when Rush has absolutely nailed it.
“This brief research note aims to estimate the magnitude of the association between general intelligence and physical attractiveness with large nationally representative samples from two nations. In the United Kingdom, attractive children are more intelligent by 12.4 IQ points (r = .381), whereas in the United States, the correlation between intelligence and physical attractiveness is somewhat smaller (r = .126). The association between intelligence and physical attractiveness is stronger among men than among women in both nations.” (link)
Lacking a compensating trade-off between looks and smarts, many of us will have to make do, as Elwood Dowd recommended, with being oh so pleasant. Also, those who selected a looker for a spouse weren’t so shallow after all.
It’s part of my Christmas tradition, but some kids should not be allowed to watch it.
And in a tough economy, the evil overlords always take it out on the minions. (more…)
