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RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:36 am
by AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: scott1964
Question: Should I make a website to go along with my blog? Would anyone come visit? [8D][:)]
Yes, I would. Just probably not everyday.[:D]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:36 am
by AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: Terminus
ORIGINAL: Apollo11
Hi all,
Leslie Nielsen died... [:(]
For me his "Forbidden Planet" (1956) was great movie (also it was his start in acting career)!
Leo "Apollo11"
RIP...[:(]
Indeed. [:(]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:39 am
by AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: sprior
Surely he's not dead? Yes he is, and stop calling me Shirley.
Unfortunately yes. We can call him Shirley no more.[:(]
On a lighter note, on Thanksgiving I had a very enjoyable conversation with a RN four ringer who's the British liason officer to STRATCOM. Like you , a former sewer pipe sailor who commanded Splendid,Victourious and the Perisher....er, Periscope course. [:D]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:10 am
by DuckofTindalos
Both a submarine and carrier driver...
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:12 am
by sprior
Victorious is an SSBN. I think splendid is now tied up at Rosyth along with all the other rusting nuclear kettles.
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:12 am
by sprior
RN four ringer
So he didn't have much to do with the workers then?
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:20 am
by Dixie
ORIGINAL: sprior
RN four ringer
So he didn't have much to do with the workers then?
pa-dum!
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:22 am
by Dixie
Didn't snow last night [8D] I didn't really think December's leave through properly though, I'm only at work 4 times next month, and they're all for the night shift [8|]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:27 am
by Onime No Kyo
Morning tithe.
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:27 am
by Onime No Kyo
Leslie Nielsen died? [:(]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:28 am
by DuckofTindalos
ORIGINAL: sprior
Victorious is an SSBN.
Oops, my bad...
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:37 am
by AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: sprior
RN four ringer
So he didn't have much to do with the workers then?
That depends.....is a chief a worker in the RN? (Not in the USN) It seems as though he couldn't say enough good about chiefs. [:)]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:39 am
by AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: Terminus
ORIGINAL: sprior
Victorious is an SSBN.
Oops, my bad...
Not surprising. The RN, like the USN can name anything anything. And the RN never did have a naming procedure (BB=State , CA+CL+ACR=City,DD=Person,SS=Fish or number).[:(]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:45 am
by sprior
It seems as though he couldn't say enough good about chiefs
I hope he didn't say "salt of the earth"
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:48 am
by Onime No Kyo
Also, after about 10-15 years of absolute crap, my faith in the ability of post-Soviet nations to make movies about WW2 has finally been restored.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj96Ahlc ... re=related
I dont know if it is possible to get it with subtitles, but if you have the chance I highly recommend it. No politicizing or moralizing, just the real, terrible, awful reality of war. The story is all absolutely true, down to every single episode. My father was a tour guide there in his younger days and has told me many things that he himself, and other staff, learned in speaking with the survivors. He met the hero of the story as well.
My hat's off to the film makers at Belarusfilm. [&o]
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:48 am
by sprior
And the RN never did have a naming procedure
The class names of boats proceed in alphabetical order (mostly) like classes of destroyers used to. So we had Resolution, Superb, Trafalgar, Unseen, Victorious and the not-very Astute.
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:53 am
by sprior
My hat's off to the film makers at Belarusfilm
Wow.
What did you think to "Star"?
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:02 am
by DuckofTindalos
ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: Terminus
ORIGINAL: sprior
Victorious is an SSBN.
Oops, my bad...
Not surprising. The RN, like the USN can name anything anything. And the RN never did have a naming procedure (BB=State , CA+CL+ACR=City,DD=Person,SS=Fish or number).[:(]
Victorious was always a capital ship name in the RN. Of course nowadays, an SSBN is very much a capital ship.
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:03 am
by DuckofTindalos
ORIGINAL: sprior
And the RN never did have a naming procedure
The class names of boats proceed in alphabetical order (mostly) like classes of destroyers used to. So we had Resolution, Superb, Trafalgar, Unseen, Victorious and the not-very Astute.
The captain of which just got canned...
RE: THE THREAD!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:07 am
by JWE
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
Also, after about 10-15 years of absolute crap, my faith in the ability of post-Soviet nations to make movies about WW2 has finally been restored.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj96Ahlc ... re=related
I dont know if it is possible to get it with subtitles, but if you have the chance I highly recommend it. No politicizing or moralizing, just the real, terrible, awful reality of war. The story is all absolutely true, down to every single episode. My father was a tour guide there in his younger days and has told me many things that he himself, and other staff, learned in speaking with the survivors. He met the hero of the story as well.
My hat's off to the film makers at Belarusfilm. [&o]
Otlichnij !! (sorry mouse, but laptop doesn't have the cyrillic character set loaded)