kitfistovevo:

ayellowbirds:

hellforged-trashgoddex:

barbiegutzz:

morefunthanb4:

mondays, amirite fellas?

When you suggest pineapple on the pizza

I really want to know the context for this

what did this man do? was this a staged photo? if not, what could possibly warrant all those bayonets? If so, did the photographer get pissed that guy on the right for looking into the camera? I have so many questions

Some light digging, and we have an answer: this is Col. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (Sr.), instructing trainee Marines. Apparently Biddle was known to tell the trainees to try their best to kill him with their bayonets, before easily disarming them without wielding any weapons, himself. He trained soldiers in hand-to-hand combat in both World Wars, was declared “Boxing’s Greatest Amateur”, and started a movement called Athletic Christianity. Wealthy and notably eccentric, he was the basis for the play “The Happiest Millionaire”, which apparently exaggerates very little of his life.

So, this is very likely a staged photograph he planned to his own amusement, but it’s also very possible that he handed each one of these men their own individual ass the moment after the picture was taken.