This morning I got to to work, grabbed a coffee, and sat down to read some news on the web before I started to work.  I’m pretty lucky I guess, because a team of Royal Engineers from the British Army spent their morning trying to defuse a World War 2 bomb discovered in London.

Imagine that for a moment.  Not only are you dealing with a bomb, it’s a huge bomb (1000Kg), and to top it all off it’s probably incredibly unstable since it’s been sitting there rusting for 50 years or so.  Probably not a lot of fun….

Still, with typical British understatement, the whole thing was tremendously underplayed.

Saunders confirmed that at one point the bomb had started to tick but said engineers dealt with the problem.

Started to tick? WTF?

He said he could not recall when the ticking was noticed.

Really?  Couldn’t recall eh?  I would imagine it was probably around the time that the whole team of engineers simultaneously shat their pants.  Maybe a little before that.

Honestly.  I just love that quote.

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