Guest Jabba The Hunt Posted January 17, 2001 Posted January 17, 2001 This is an actual raido conversation between a United States Navy aircraft carrier (USS Abraham Lincoln) and Canadian authorities off the coast off Newfoundland in October 1995. This was realsed under the Freedom of Information Act. CANADIANS: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision. AMERICANS: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision. CANADIANS: Negative. You will have to divert you course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision AMERICANS: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course. CANADIANS: No, I say again, you divert YOUR course. AMERICANS: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN TEH UNITED STATES ATALANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 NORTH...I SAY AGAIN....THATS ONE-FIVE DEGREES NORTH.... OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEND TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP!! CANADIANS: This is a lighthouse. Your call. ------------------ If you've don six impossible things today, why not have breakfast at milliways (The Resarant at the end of the Universe)
Rogue Nine Posted January 17, 2001 Posted January 17, 2001 I read that somewhere! That's flamin' hilarious... Blame Canada...
Nute Gunray Posted January 17, 2001 Posted January 17, 2001 You spelled strategy wrong. Who's the idiot now?
Guest Zoom Rabbit Posted January 18, 2001 Posted January 18, 2001 Well...did they move the lighthouse, finally? *Sings* 'Anchors a-weigh my boys, an-chors aweigh--!'
Darth Sceltor Posted January 18, 2001 Posted January 18, 2001 "Target acquired, Captain" "Fire at will" "YEEHAH!! We got the lightbulb!!!"
Admiral Odin Posted January 18, 2001 Posted January 18, 2001 The Canucks are coming run to the hills. Lets invade Canada, they'll send mounties after US ------------------ "Dulce bellum inexpertis." (Sweet is war to those who have never experinced it.) Roman Proverb
Nute Gunray Posted January 18, 2001 Posted January 18, 2001 I would have ordered one of my escorts to launch a few Tomahawks at it...
Darth Sceltor Posted January 18, 2001 Posted January 18, 2001 No lighthouse can resist the might of the US Navy!
KNIGHT_FEDAYKIN Posted January 18, 2001 Posted January 18, 2001 lol, thats funny *points and laughs at the americans*
Admiral Odin Posted January 19, 2001 Posted January 19, 2001 Takes a knife and cuts of Knights hands. Now hows laughing? ------------------ "Dulce bellum inexpertis." (Sweet is war to those who have never experinced it.) Roman Proverb
Psycho Tycho Posted January 19, 2001 Posted January 19, 2001 'Dat's right! ------------------ "Oh mah goodness!"-SNL -PsYcHo Official Forum Psycho
Darth Sceltor Posted January 19, 2001 Posted January 19, 2001 I'm lauging. MUHAHAHAHAHAH *Ducks spurt of blood from Knight's stump* Yuck.......
Nute Gunray Posted January 19, 2001 Posted January 19, 2001 I did some checking...and it turns out that not only was the Lincoln NOT off the coast of Newfoundland in Oct. 1995, they were in the PACIFIC FLEET en route to the US Seventh fleet off of TAIWAN. HA.
Guest Vark111 Posted January 19, 2001 Posted January 19, 2001 Good n00t. Truth be known, and I should have said this earlier, but this is one of those funny story/urban legend. I heard this exact same story about 10 years ago. I believe it was first printed in Reader's Digest. The original joke happened during WWII and the antagonist was a battleship, not a carrier. You also gotta wonder, what the hell is a carrier doing so close to land that it is in danger of running aground -- by the time it got that close its escort (every US carrier has more escorts than a rich old lady) would have already run aground. ------------------ It takes all kinds... The question is, what is 'it'?
Zargon Posted January 19, 2001 Posted January 19, 2001 Not only am I smart enough to have done that, was I smart enough to not do it cause I knew n00t was going to.
Admiral Odin Posted January 19, 2001 Posted January 19, 2001 and now Nute is recorded in the FBI. I was smart enough to know Zargon would post something like that so I wouldn't have to. Ha I'm smarter than Zargon. ------------------ "Dulce bellum inexpertis." (Sweet is war to those who have never experinced it.) Roman Proverb
Guest Zoom Rabbit Posted January 19, 2001 Posted January 19, 2001 I let the Admiral take the press for setting up Zargon as the fall guy, thereby insulating my credibility for future political ambitions. I'd say I'm the smartest.
Nute Gunray Posted January 19, 2001 Posted January 19, 2001 I always heard it as the Enterprise off of Cape Hatteras... ------------------ The virtues of Pokemon are lost in a sea of animal warfare and Nurse Joy's miniskirt.
Rogue Nine Posted January 19, 2001 Posted January 19, 2001 Whatevah. We too damn fulla ourselves to care. ------------------ Love people. Use things. Not vice versa. XWA's Resident Finance Manager
Flying Beastie Posted January 22, 2001 Posted January 22, 2001 Certainly full of something. ------------------ "Do fish-people eat fish, or would that be like humans eating monkeys?" "Humans do eat monkeys. In fact humans eat other humans. . . Y'know, as a species, we are really quite unpleasant."
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