[grey_whiskers]

Misprision of treason.

Hope Wray likes a short drop, or a long stay in Gitmo.

Then I added: "Keep it up, Good, I can't remember any more poetry. Curse away, there's a good fellow."

Good responded nobly to this tax upon his inventive faculties. Never before had I the faintest conception of the breadth and depth and height of a naval officer's objurgatory powers. For ten minutes he went on in several languages without stopping, and he scarcely ever repeated himself.

-- H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines

PS -- LonePalm, can you confirm about naval officers?

[little jeremiah]

YOu made me remember that I LOVED H.Rider Haggard as a child.

[LonePalm]

The four most senior Soviet military officers to defect to the US all did so to US Naval Officers. They did so knowing that those officers would do anything and everything, even as the cost of their lives to get the defector to safety in the US.

That should answer your question.

WWG1WGA

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)