Sir Michael Caine: Bada**

Courtesy of Abu Muqawama

Seems Caine fought in Korea. Who knew?

“When I was nineteen and a soldier, I often wondered how I was going to be if I knew I was going to die. At one point, we were ambushed in the paddy fields, just four of us surrounded by Chinese. And my instinct — which has lasted me the rest of my life — was: All right, I’m going to die. And that’s O.K. But” — he paused and levelled a heavy finger at the recollected enemy, and at any future adversaries — “as many of you as possible are going to die with me. I’ll take the whole fucking lot.” He grinned. “I’m going to die expensive.”

And, just to add to the awesomeness that is Sir Michael, here's a gem from about a year ago, vis taxes:

"The Government has taken tax up to 50 per cent, and if it goes to 51 I will be back in America," he said at the weekend. "We've got 3.5 million layabouts on benefits, and I'm 76, getting up at 6am to go to work to keep them. Let's get everybody back to work so we can save a couple of billion and cut tax, not keep sticking it up."

I have news for you Sir Michael, the tax rates over here will not be all that better, I'm afraid, for someone in your income bracket.

Before you know it, we'll have to come up with some "Michael Caine is so tough that ..." jokes to compete with the Chuck Norris lines.

Sir Michael supports the Brit conservative party:



And, of course, he was in some great movies, oh, like Zulu.



Battle of Rorke's Drift. Three servings of awesome.

But, there is more. The Man who Would be King:




Another three servings of awesome..

....And of course, the best Alfred in the Batman series:



Finally, he's the subject of a great song by Madness:



Michael Caine. If he were not already knighted, he oughta be..