Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles... if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
Sun Tzu

 

Heavy metal forever!

 

Not quite the Unchained Melody...but I can dig it!

 

a real home-brew 6 pac. How fun.

 

The picture was taken in Al Qassasin, Egypt, near the Suez canal, during World War II.

I'm guessing the car in the back is a 1936 Ford Coupe w/rumble seat.

 

The pool industry became involved as opportunistic builders recognized that building an inground pool shell wasn’t all that different from constructing a subterranean bomb shelter. By 1961, when this photo ran in the Long Beach Press Telegram, Catalina Pools, a builder serving the greater Los Angeles region, had already built more than 500 bomb shelters. And as the photo reveals, the company wasn’t shy about using glamor and luxury as part of its sales pitch.

Company owner Lee Bourdon would later say that although his company did benefit from the bomb shelter construction fad, demand quickly vanished in the early ’60s. “We lost a lot of money,” he said. “We’ll never do anything like that again.”

Today, the pool industry’s involvement in meeting the demand for shelter construction is little more than a distant memory, a mere footnote in the history of the industry. Yet, for a time, the desire for protection from a nuclear holocaust existed hand-in-hand with the growing demand for backyard recreation.


Newspaper from same area/timeframe...

FYI.

 

"One full payload from the AF2011-A1 can deliver in three seconds what would take a regular 9mm pistol almost ten times as long to fire, including reloading"

Not sure how they justify that one. My G19 NORMALLY carries 17+1 and I haven't timed the quick fire unload, but I am pretty sure it is far below 30secs. If I toss in one of the 33rd mags the statement gets even sillier.