A true mercenary...

[KillerZ]

Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down to the pond and chasing bluegills and tommycocks. This shark, swallow you whole. No shakin', no tenderizin', down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing...

You gotta love Quint

[spaceboy]

I think we're going to need a bigger boat.

Nice recantation,  Glad I read that post.   :-X

[DKM2]

He made that movie.

Some more favs;

You have city hands, Mr. Hooper. You been countin' money all your life.
Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women.
What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?
Front, bow. Back, stern. If ya don't get it right, squirt, I throw your a$$ out the little round window on the side.

I'm talkin' 'bout workin' for a livin'. I'm talkin' 'bout sharkin'!

[Art Blade]

this one comes out of the blue for me. I'm lost, only DKM2's post seems to hint it's a quote from a movie?

[DKM2]

omg, you haven't seen JAWS?      ;D

[PZ]

lol, I was lost too until you mentioned "Jaws"  ;D

[JRD]

me too...  ::)

Amazing how those lines fits FC2 like a glove!!  ;)

[Art Blade]

hehe... now that you mention JAWS, I do recall having seen it, but I'd never have guessed those quotes were from it :)

[retiredgord]

Original Jaws..great movie and cast.  :) :) I love swimming but got a little concerned when I first saw this flic.  :o :o Man, what a big mouth..larger than X's in my game.  ::) ::) hahaha

[KillerZ]

Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

THAT's hardcore

[spaceboy]

KillerZ that last one gave me the chills.  Gotta watch it again.

I may not get all the words perfect but I rather enjoy singing this one.

"Show me the way to go home
I'm tired and I wanna go to bed.
I had a little drink about an hour ago
and it went straight to my head.

Wherever I may roam
whether land or sea or foam
You'll always hear me singing this song
Show me the way to go home."

I love when they are comparing scars.

[RedRaven]

is that from Jaws too ? was like 5-6 years old when saw it so didnt really watch it but that about the sub is really really familiar....

[DKM2]

Jaws is mandatory movie fare, git yer butts to the video store.

[retiredgord]

I remember that song from when I was a lot younger and my mom, bless her soul, would sing it when she had a drink or two about an hour before.  Ah that's a memory.