Inaugural Posting

Welcome to the inaugural posting of Ain't Got No Spit.

If you're wondering where the name came from, it's a line from Jaws. Picture the scene: the three intrepid shark hunters are out at sea in their boat, and the Great White that's been terrorising Amity Beach is still out there. Hooper (played by Richard Dreyfus) is about to go down in a specially constructed reinforced steel cage, in order to be able to get close to the shark, and kill it. Furthermore, he is intending to fasten a profusely bleeding piece of meat to the cage, to entice the beast to take a closer look.

He has lowered the cage into the water, and having put his wetsuit on, he jumps into the water. All that remains to don is his diving mask, and in order to keep the visor from steaming up, divers tend to spit on the inside of the glass mask. He tries to do this, but looks up at the other two, and with a semi-apologetic shrug, and his voice trembling, tries to lighten the moment with the words "Ain't got no spit"

Whilst not the line in the film that everyone remembers, I love it, because the tension and the nerves are building, and getting in the water with a shark capable of severely bending this custom-built cage (as it goes on to prove) is foolhardy in the least.

I hope to post regular thoughts and musings, as well as interesting stuff that comes up from the web.