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A Sharpei, A Cat, and The Mightiest Vessel of its Time
Aw. A Get Fuzzy strip just for me:
Vad fan, jävlar!
From my comment to Jay Lake, source of all links:
Though, to be punctilious about it, the Wasa wasn't 'ruined' 15 minutes later -- it was rather remarkably intact, even 300 years later -- it just sank. I'd say when it was ruined was even as it was built: too tall in cross-section relative to its keel, with gun decks too low relative to a properly balasted draft. Thus it blew over sideways in the first stiff cross-breeze, and began shipping water through the gun ports. Sank like a stone.
But the dog swearing in Swedish is still funny.
Vad fan, jävlar!
From my comment to Jay Lake, source of all links:
Though, to be punctilious about it, the Wasa wasn't 'ruined' 15 minutes later -- it was rather remarkably intact, even 300 years later -- it just sank. I'd say when it was ruined was even as it was built: too tall in cross-section relative to its keel, with gun decks too low relative to a properly balasted draft. Thus it blew over sideways in the first stiff cross-breeze, and began shipping water through the gun ports. Sank like a stone.
But the dog swearing in Swedish is still funny.
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(For Anglophones still following along at home, the phrases being bandied here mean, literally, "Hell/Damnation take you," and "Hell/Damnation take me." (The latter might more loosely translated as "I'll be damned.") I'm just thinking that "Fan take you/me" either turns fans into a sort of monstrous boogeyman, or indicates a sort of fannish erotomania.)