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I Was Going To Be A Spanish Firefighter, But My Dalmation Drowned

I Was Going To Be A Spanish Firefighter, But My Dalmation Drowned

Are you allowed to have fun when you’re a firefighter? Do you have to pretend to be serious all the time, because firefighting is, after all, a very serious business? I dunno. I do know that if I was a Spanish aerial firefighter, I’d probably be fired for smiling all the time, because it looks like a stone cold blast.

(Thanks to that devotee of all things Borderline, Charles Schneider, for sending that one along)

Be Not Afraid Of Greatness: Some Are Born Great, Some Achieve Greatness, And Some Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them

Be Not Afraid Of Greatness: Some Are Born Great, Some Achieve Greatness, And Some Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them

Perhaps it is presumptuous for me to say, but I understand the men on the ladder with the prybar entirely. They are my brothers.

I do not know how I’ve woken up in a world where 99 percent of the population never think to do anything but point their crummy cameraphones at whatever calamity is ongoing.

The man with the prybar is worth a thousand of them.