Feeling lucky punks? Are ya?

Is there a better way to resolve a complex issue of marine archaeology than to simply pop a cap in some one's ass?

We think so, but the suddenly tough-talking Twits over at HHI apparently endorse the more aggressive approach. Twice today the issue of shooting or threatening others with guns appeared on the poseurs' website. All in good fun, you say? Not when you consider the sources.

In the first instance, which we reported earlier today, Old Toughie Bartram (we strive to make our hero Wodehouse proud), who has made several online references to physically assaulting those he disagrees with (translation: he's a bigger pussy than Garfield), today wrote about a hypothetical run-in with Odyssey, with a grim result:

Solomon: "Personally, if somebody turns up on one of our sites waving a piece of paper and shouting at me, they are at risk of getting shot."

Shot with what Bartram? A bitchy glare? Ooooh, that sounds positively venomous.

"SatDiver" (smithvi2003, Smitty, gldn_fleez), so desperately eager to ingratiate himself to the Queen Bee, buzzed about with similar threats. Hilariously, though, and showing a complete lack of imagination, he posts virtually the same scenario as Master Bartram, with the same predictable outcome:

SatDiver: "You can show up to a recovery operation, show them your piece of paper, with No location shown, and tell them that they are on your site, and that they have to leave.There are many groups operating out there that I would not suggest trying that with...."

Which he follows with...take a guess...that's right: A photo of a guy playing with all kinds of nasty-looking boom sticks (i.e., big ass machine guns). We know, we know: Pathetic. (Of the beyond words variety.)

Now, most of you are already grossly familiar with SatDiver Smitty's way with "subtlety." His years of Yahoo posts, detailed in our recent profile, revealed a vile penchant for insults featuring pedophilia, bestiality, incest, but also uber-creepy stalking of female posters and the cowardly harassment of a Vietnam vet. As we said then: this guy's a piece of work. (HHI should be really proud of such stellar associations.)

Does HHI honestly expect to be taken seriously by the adult world, especially the niche that focuses on the fairly narrow, restricted field of marine archaeology, with this kind of asinine behavior?

Ah well...it's ultimately of no concern to us how the world perceives HHI; we do this for our own and hopefully others' amusement. And while we'll refrain from threatening to shoot anyone, you can count on us to continue carving up poseur ass. Strictly metaphorically speaking, mind you.