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you can start laughing a lot now

11/26/2007 4:24:26 PM

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11/26/2007 4:26:02 PM

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11/26/2007 4:26:32 PM

shouldn't it just be

Har Har Mateys? (the second Har is the "a lot" part).

11/26/2007 4:44:20 PM

But I don't wanna be a pirate

11/26/2007 4:46:40 PM

I thought that was just generic nautical jibberish.

11/26/2007 4:49:51 PM

^^ i laughed....

11/26/2007 4:50:56 PM

^ heeyyy

11/26/2007 4:51:55 PM

^^thanks for getting it

11/26/2007 4:54:12 PM

Can you please bring back the battleships?

11/26/2007 5:11:27 PM

are you a shellback or are you a stinking wog?

[Edited on November 26, 2007 at 5:34 PM. Reason : and take your damned dick skinners out of your pockets]

11/26/2007 5:25:01 PM

^^someday, I'll try. I think they can do wonders for a task group's firepower projection.

wog

11/26/2007 6:04:48 PM

I bet you don't even know how to sail

11/26/2007 6:13:13 PM

i actually do not that well, mind you, but i only had a couple hours to learn it in

11/26/2007 6:13:56 PM

Then you, sir, are a "navy man" in my book.


I might just have to start my own "ask the (real) SAILor thread"

11/26/2007 6:26:01 PM

I mean, when I have the opportunity, I'd like to get to do some real sailing on a little sailboat of my own.

But steel and engines will do for now. For me, there is no greater feeling than to have the wheel of a ship in my hand.

11/26/2007 8:08:49 PM

My father was in the Navy, He never drank Budweiser again.

11/26/2007 8:17:29 PM

I've never drank Budweiser to begin with. It's piss beer, really.

11/26/2007 8:22:48 PM

Why do battleships have wooden plank decks?

11/26/2007 8:26:51 PM

Quote :

"I think they can do wonders for a task group's firepower projection"

Naval gunfire in support of troops has some pretty significant limitations. But a broadside looks cool as shit


(note the lateral movement of the ship to port as indicated by the wake patterns off the starboard bow)

11/26/2007 8:48:23 PM

11/26/2007 9:09:42 PM

bttt

11/26/2007 10:10:18 PM

if you are on a ship that sinks, will you let the sperm whale swallow you?

11/26/2007 10:35:53 PM

Well, if my nose starts to grow when I lie, yes.

11/26/2007 10:40:32 PM

Quote :

"Why do battleships have wooden plank decks? "

Never seemed like a good idea to have a deck made of flammables

11/27/2007 1:15:28 AM

chembob...

is it true that sailors suck cock to prevent scurvy, rickets and primitive forms of STD's

11/27/2007 2:04:43 AM

dont need battleships when you are getting rail guns

11/27/2007 2:38:44 AM

^^

^yea, i can't wait to see those in action

11/27/2007 8:14:42 AM

Quote :

"Why do battleships have wooden plank decks?"

the planks are overlaying the armored deck, this is in the era before that really rough tacky surfacing they spray on decks now, in other words, it's not just a wood deck, and it's there for traction in the wet.

11/27/2007 9:06:59 AM

Quote :

"dont need battleships when you are getting rail guns"

eh?

11/27/2007 9:12:21 AM

Have you ever been on a deployment?

11/27/2007 9:21:02 AM

^^^ I was always told that the reason Battleships had wood decking surrounding the guns was because the recoil from the 16" cannons buckled the decks when they were first running sea trials on battleships. They originally had steel decking, but switched to wooden planking because it can expand and contract enough that the recoil effects are minimized wherein a steel deck would result in constant repairs.

That may not be true though.

11/27/2007 9:24:42 AM

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[Edited on November 27, 2007 at 9:25 AM. Reason : failed link]

11/27/2007 9:25:16 AM

what shall we do with the drunken sailor, what shall we do with the drunken sailor, what shall we do with the drunken sailor, so earl-i in the morning ?

11/27/2007 9:52:09 AM

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"Have you ever been on a deployment?"

No Soon enough, though.

Quote :

"^^^ I was always told that the reason Battleships had wood decking surrounding the guns was because the recoil from the 16" cannons buckled the decks when they were first running sea trials on battleships. They originally had steel decking, but switched to wooden planking because it can expand and contract enough that the recoil effects are minimized wherein a steel deck would result in constant repairs. That may not be true though. "

Actually, now that I think about it, that's the reason I've heard as well.

^ Put him in the longboat till he’s sober, (3×)
Early in the morning.

Put him in bed with the captain's daughter, (3×)
Early in the morning.

Pull out the plug and wet him all over, (3×)
Early in the morning.

Put him in the scuppers with a hosepipe on him, (3×)
Early in the morning.

Heave him by the leg in a running bowline, (3×)
Early in the morning.

Tie him to the taffrail when she’s yardarm under, (3×)
Early in the morning.

Keelhaul him, keelhaul him (3×)
Early in the morning.

Shave his belly with a rusty razor, (3×)
Early in the morning.

11/27/2007 10:43:22 AM

bttt

11/27/2007 2:08:54 PM

Quote :

"dont need battleships when you are getting rail guns"

The navy is getting rail guns?

11/27/2007 2:16:30 PM

^http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4231461.html

11/27/2007 2:26:50 PM

purty nifty.

11/27/2007 2:33:44 PM

thanks

11/27/2007 2:43:50 PM

^^^^^ you just cut and pasted from a wiki

11/27/2007 4:49:04 PM

I'm sorry, I'm not that familiar with old sea shantys. Not that popular in the Navy

11/27/2007 4:50:25 PM

bttt

11/28/2007 2:29:37 PM

i said MOAR

11/28/2007 10:06:15 PM

If you just happened to be writing a paper on maritime security and unconventional forms of terrorism, that is due tomorrow... what would you think is the biggest threat?

11/28/2007 10:09:07 PM

well, to the US Navy, I would say the fact that we're not as prepared as we should be in fighting in littoral areas

overall, piracy.

11/28/2007 10:12:07 PM

Hmm, I was hoping you'd say scuba as a form of terrorism But I guess piracy is legitimate too.

11/28/2007 10:12:50 PM

11/28/2007 10:15:20 PM

we don't really worry about that in the open ocean

in port, yes, we do. don't worry, we got people watchin the water

11/28/2007 10:16:22 PM

next question

11/28/2007 10:32:24 PM