Ernest Shackleton supposedly placed this ad in a newspaper looking for men to accompany him on his next expedition.
Ernest Shackleton’s Ad
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How many people signed up to go to the south pole?
That’s fantastic Brett.
I know on his voyage, at some extreme low point, Shackleton quoted Browning; “For sudden the worst brings the best to the brave.”
What a guy!
Best want ad ever. That would make a great AoM tshirt.
Mark,
There were 28 crew members aboard the Endurance, not counting the ship’s carpenter’s cat “Mrs. Chippy”.
Absolutely genius MarcJ I’d have to say I’d buy that shirt.
Ernest was the man, and his crew were the envy of any. When ever I think I have it rough I just think about what those guys went through and I think,”well at least I don’t know what seal tastes like.”
Reminds me of this old joke ad/meme that was circulating a few years ago:
http://www.subzeroblue.com/images/classifiedadbacktofuture.jpg
This is an article about the time travel ad.
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/silveira125.html
Reminds me of the Art Bell show @ 2AM! A caller on a pay phone spent close to 15 minutes explaining his presence in this time. He billed himself as a “paleo agtech”, having returned from the future in order to gather heat-resistant seeds needed to survive global warming, itself instituted in order to wipe out the “Grays” who had invaded our planet. So far so good….just another Art Bell show….until the following caller insisted “No way is that guy from the future! I’m from the future and we don’t need to use a pay phone to make a call”