Just saw a comment that said David Drake's Hammers Slammers stories were ”nothing special.
Just saw a comment that said David Drake's Hammers Slammers stories were ”nothing special.” May they be flattened by a combat car.
From Voyageurs National Park on FB:
From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
Dude, you just don't need that kind of negativity in your life. Block 'em I say.
ReplyDeleteDude, what is with people trying to yuck your yum in the comments today? Buncha buzzkills.
ReplyDeleteIt was just a rando comment on someone else's thread. But it got my nerd ire up!
ReplyDeleteHammers Slammers RRUUULLLLEEEE!
ReplyDeleteThat sort of comment? I suspect the Slammers would say something like "It don't mean nothing, snake." And then stare off into space, trying to avoid thinking of the multitudes they had killed to get there - but Via! It was that or die, and that's not a hard decision...
ReplyDelete(Which is to say, shitty Drake pastiche aside, that anyone who writes off the Slammers doesn't know what they're missing, and it's their loss.)
ReplyDeleteHumza K, that got an lol.
ReplyDeleteNow I want to read "The Interrogation Team" again.
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