OT Things to ponder

[Lecivius]

Now that's funny right there [:D]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

If I listened to music like that when I drive, I would be liable to fall asleep.

However, something to think about is whether the name of this song is related to the people in the video. Does it refer to the little girls changing their appearance so drastically?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGu6v2OjW8s

How would you feel about sleep after listening to this piece? [;)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiV3J_e977Q

If memory suits, the film also involves the changing of two little girls' appearance quite 'drastically'. After they had been 'corrected'.

Now I'll have to go back to Berlios' Dies Erie to hear the non-synthesized version.

ETA: Here it is-as part of the Symphonie Fantastique:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Kky5BC9Uk

[BBfanboy]

The Chicago Symphony is not paying their conductor enough! He should be well enough compensated to be able to go to a hair stylist and to rent a tux!

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

The Chicago Symphony is not paying their conductor enough! He should be well enough compensated to be able to go to a hair stylist and to rent a tux!

He appeared to be comfortable enough to conduct in his pajamas, so I'd say he's doing OK by himself. [;)]

[MakeeLearn]

I don't use it. A great idea, even more is to be built into the screen already.

[Chickenboy]

Ugh...

Cargo explodes during unloading of xAK Izan Maru at Shanghai

[rockmedic109]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Ugh...

Cargo explodes during unloading of xAK Izan Maru at Shanghai

Could be worse. Might have been AE Mount Hood explodes at Ulithi. Then listing 36 other ships that were damaged.

[RangerJoe]

"Mount Hood was anchored in approximately 35 feet of water. The force of the explosion blasted a trench in the harbor bottom, reported by divers as 1000 feet long, 200 feet wide and 85 feet maximum depth. In the trench was found the largest piece of the ship’s hull- a piece less than 100 feet in it’s longest dimension. Destruction was complete. Nothing was found after the explosion except fragments of metal which struck other ships. There were no bits of human remains, no supplies of any kind, nothing that had been made of wood or paper, with the single exception of a few tattered pieces of a signal notebook, floating on the water several hundred yards away.

The flying fragments from Mount Hood smashed into some 30 other ships and harbor craft bringing the total casualties to nearly 1000 killed or wounded. Some of the harbor craft simply vanished with all hands…"

USS Mount Hood and crew lost in massive explosion

[RangerJoe]

Cause of the Accident:
Since the possibility of enemy action appears to have been remote, the most probable cause of the accident was rough handling of the ammunition while loading or unloading. The propagation of the explosion was undoubtedly increased by inadequate separation and segregation of incompatible items in stowage. Evidence indicates the possibility of the detonation of TPX loaded depth bombs while it was being loaded into the number three or number four hold. Detonation could have been caused by striking the hatch with the bombs on the way down or dropping them into the hold carelessly.

Selected documents relating to the loss of USS Mount Hood

[Chickenboy]

Did she blow up on Ulithi or Manus (in the Admiralties)?

[RangerJoe]

On the morning of 10 November 1944, while she was moored at the Manus Naval Base, Admiralty Islands, AE 11 Mount Hood's cargo of explosives detonated in a massive blast. The AE 11 Mount Hood was a merchant acquired by USN on 28 January 1944 and converted to ammunition ship. The ship was utterly destroyed by the accident, which killed all those on board her. Damage and casualties were also inflicted on ships anchored as far as 2000 yards away. Personnel casualties on Mount Hood and on other vessels totalled 45 known dead, 327 missing and 371 injured. USS Mindanao (ARG-3) was about 350 yards away. USS Mindanao had 180 crewmen killed and injured by this explosion. She was under repair until 21 December

AE Ammunition Ships going BOOM!

[rockmedic109]

My mistake on calling it Ulithi. Central Nervous System Flatulence. You'd think with my last name being Hood, I would at least get that right!

[jwolf]

Ships named Hood did not fare well in WW2.

[rockmedic109]

Who came up with the idea to name Ammo ships after a volcano!

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

Who came up with the idea to name Ammo ships after a volcano!

Obviously someone with a twisted (and great) sense of humor! [:D]

[MakeeLearn]

Naming Conventions of US Navy Ships, 1940-1945
https://ww2db.com/other.php?other_id=35

"Ammunition Ships - AE - Volcanoes, or explosive related"

[geofflambert]

Not a criticism at all, but I believe in the Soviet Union most Sturmoviks were piloted by women, and they weren't fooling around. I believe sometimes they landed in a field and scalped the tank crews they'd killed.

[RangerJoe]

Not just pilots, they had this lovely man killer:

Smart, beautiful and deadly

[geofflambert]

I'll have a pepperoni pizza with Beethoven on the side.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ins ... ost&wpmm=1

[RangerJoe]

The members of BTO were working on this anthem for the working class when a pianist and composer named Norman Durkee stuck his head in the studio and said, unsolicited, “I think that song needs a little bit of piano on it to lift it up,” according to BTO singer Fred Turner. When guitarist Randy Bachman asked Durkee what he would do, the musician, who had been at the studio working for someone else, suggested a Little Richard-like groove, then proceeded to compose the intro on a pizza box before recording it. “He walked into the studio and knocked it off in one take,” Turner said.

Takin’ Care of Business

Bachman Turner Overdrive Takin Care Of Business