That is quite the abnormally high number of drowning victims for one lifeguard during the few years Ronald Reagan would have been in high school. Most lifeguards maybe save one or two people a year – what the heck was going on at that beach?
Wilkins was the brother-in-law of none other than Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell: https://web.archive.org/web/20090509103750/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/cromwells-moonshot-how-one-jacobean-scientist-tried-to-kick-off-the-space-race-535171.html
I think you mean "responded to 77 incidents ". I had a really good lawyer one time who told me, “when we get to court, you can not lie. But you can certainly exaggerate a bit.”
I’m appalled by the protracted discussion over minor matters of no lasting consequence, especially the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a totalitarian regime whose 7 decades of persistent failure featuring the occasional mass murder and continually-operating secret police should show any thinking person with an ounce of integrity that Marxism Is Bad. ™
Leroy over 5 years ago
Impressive. But wouldn’t it have been easier to get the shark out of the pool??
Fritzsch over 5 years ago
You mean “courts-martial”?
Templo S.U.D. over 5 years ago
Well, Wilkins’s experiment worked three centuries later, but between Russia and the United States.
Hank Gillette Premium Member over 5 years ago
That 77 number seems totally bogus to me, but I guess it depends on what you consider “saving a life”.
wandasway2003 over 5 years ago
That is quite the abnormally high number of drowning victims for one lifeguard during the few years Ronald Reagan would have been in high school. Most lifeguards maybe save one or two people a year – what the heck was going on at that beach?
Byron Spears over 5 years ago
Courts-martial.
therese_callahan2002 over 5 years ago
Jules Verne must have found Wilkins’ notes, and used them as the basis for “From The Earth To The Moon.”
Grammar.Consulting over 5 years ago
Wilkins was the brother-in-law of none other than Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell: https://web.archive.org/web/20090509103750/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/cromwells-moonshot-how-one-jacobean-scientist-tried-to-kick-off-the-space-race-535171.html
khmo over 5 years ago
Dutch sure had a lot of brain dead schoolmates to have 77 non-swimmers!
Huckleberry Hiroshima over 5 years ago
Yeah but he didn’t call it “space travel.” He called it “getting to freaking hell away from my mother-in-law.”
joefearsnothing over 5 years ago
So President Reagan was a hero in High School also!
fuzzbucket Premium Member over 5 years ago
If you draft all the criminals and ship them overseas, there’s less crime at home.
WCraft Premium Member over 5 years ago
Favorite president.
Andrew Moore over 5 years ago
Correct-a-mundo!
Mostly Water Premium Member over 5 years ago
Sounds like voodoo life-saving to me.
TheRip over 5 years ago
Thanks for reading! seems like today it’s ok to use both…https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/court-martial
russef over 5 years ago
And, years later, Ronald Reagan instituted the first tax on savings account interest therby giving a HUGE helping hand to the middle class.
ScottHolman over 5 years ago
I think you mean "responded to 77 incidents ". I had a really good lawyer one time who told me, “when we get to court, you can not lie. But you can certainly exaggerate a bit.”
EricS.Harris over 3 years ago
I’m appalled by the protracted discussion over minor matters of no lasting consequence, especially the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a totalitarian regime whose 7 decades of persistent failure featuring the occasional mass murder and continually-operating secret police should show any thinking person with an ounce of integrity that Marxism Is Bad. ™
It’s “courts-martial”, people.
Really, I’m disappointed in all of you.