Random Nuclear Strikes

Devil Dog Brew.

Have a cup o’ Semper Fi in the morning!

In the UK midlands.

Largest ever hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold found in Staffordshire

A harvest of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver so beautiful it brought tears to the eyes of one expert, has poured out of a Staffordshire field – the largest hoard of gold from the period ever found.

The weapons and helmet decorations, coins and Christian crosses amount to more than 1500 pieces, with hundreds still embedded in blocks of soil. It adds up to 5kg of gold – three times the amount found in the famous Sutton Hoo ship burial in 1939 – and 2.5kg of silver, and may be the swag from a spectacularly successful raiding party of warlike Mercians, some time around AD700.

The first scraps of gold were found in July in a farm field by Terry Herbert, an amateur metal detector who lives alone in a council flat on disability benefit, who had never before found anything more valuable than a nice rare piece of Roman horse harness. The last pieces were removed from the earth by a small army of archaeologists a fortnight ago.

Europe, where history is from. That is why we keep going back to save their asses.

First you say it, then you do it.

South Korea has come up with a novel way to boost its defence budget – by selling a vast stockpile of old Korean-war rifles to collectors in the US.

The guns were originally sent to Korea as military aid, and some were also used during the war in Vietnam.

For more than five decades, they have been kept mothballed in warehouses.

Most of those on offer are M1 rifles – a weapon once described by US General George S Patton as “the greatest battle-implement ever devised”.

The rifles and carbines were originally sent by the Americans to help during the Korean war.

Since then they have occasionally glimpsed daylight, in training exercises for reserve forces, according to the BBC’s correspondent in Seoul, John Sudworth.

But for the most part these weapons have been quietly gathering value as collector’s items, our correspondent says.

A total of 86,000 M1 rifles will be sold, and another 22,000 carbines – although these have a more patchy reputation.

Time to warm up that CMP membership.

Found via Traction Control.

This is from 1981. That’s 28 years ago.

Still relevant today.

This is also from 1981.

Yes, that’s the guy from The Monkees.

He made a mondo-style musical movie called Elephant Parts way back then, and these are two of the more than two-dozen skits/music videos from that flick. I was telling my co-worker, Scott, about it, The Kentucky Fried Movie and Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video on Monday night at work.

Having more money than sense, they’re all on the way to my house as we speak.

Enjoy! (and you will if you buy the trifecta like I did)

UPDATE: Oh hell, this one still kicks my ass (aka: ROFLMAO)

“Blue Suede Ludes” It’s fuckin’ genius!