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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 2:13:06 AM

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First us ship was uss texas right? but she wasn't first ship anywhere was she?

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 2:15:00 AM

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HMS Africa?

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 2:49:05 AM

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She was also the first ship to launch a plane...

HMS Birmingham???

EDIT - ooops - i meant USS Birmingham!

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 2:55:42 AM

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"A number of experimental flights were made to test the concept. Eugene Ely was the first pilot to launch from a stationary ship in November 1910. He took off from a structure fixed over the forecastle of the US armored cruiser USS Birmingham at Hampton Roads, Virginia and landed nearby on Willoughby Spit after some five minutes in the air."

There were also balloons launched from ships dating to the mid-1800s "On July 12, 1849, the Austrian Navy ship Vulcano launched a manned hot air balloon in order to drop bombs on Venice, although the attempt failed due to contrary winds."

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 2:58:20 AM

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dang it my googling skills suck

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 3:04:48 AM

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"On another December day in 1922 the USS Oklahoma became the first ship to launch an airplane by catapult" but i guess that wouldn't qualify...

so what happened with USS Birmingham???

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 3:05:35 AM

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Got turn to play then workout see yall in a few hours

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 3:06:47 AM

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Gentlemen -

There has been some sentiment that there have been too many fabers around here... since i have been the main offender, i shall pledge not to do any more fabers until further notice.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 3:15:02 AM

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Just remember...American cops have guns

True. But most cant hit the broad side of a barn.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 3:18:39 AM

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Gentlemen -

There has been some sentiment that there have been too many fabers around here... since i have been the main offender, i shall pledge not to do any more fabers until further notice.

Calmly, Robert. RUPD was just kidding.....honest.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 3:25:26 AM

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Nah - not just RUPD...

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 3:27:27 AM

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Nah - not just RUPD...

And Mike is just frustrated that he cant keep up.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 3:28:36 AM

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Well, whatever ailment you guys in TX have, I think we got it too. I'm not sure I can define whats going on outside right now, but its somewhere between biblical and silly.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 3:44:52 AM

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From the beginning the Texas was a floating laboratory. The ship we saw is far different from the one launched so long ago. That launch, by the way, was the first one ever recorded on a new moving picture camera. Seven years later, she became the first battleship from which an airplane took off A Sopwith Camel did so from a short "run-off platform" sloping downward across the two forward gun turrets. Unfortunately, it still had to land on dry ground.

In 1939, the Texas became the first ship with commercial radar. She was retrofitted with antiaircraft guns, a tall command tower, still fancier radar, and cranes for launching and retrieving two reconnaissance seaplanes. Torpedo tubes on the original ship were removed after WW-I and never put back. The form of war changed, and the Texas changed with it. Even before WW-II, the Navy had been turning from battleships to more versatile weaponry.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 3:46:45 AM

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The site editted itself to say it was the first Battleship to launch an aircraft...

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 3:49:04 AM

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This is humorous...

Click here for the story...

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 3:52:41 AM

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Gentlemen -

There has been some sentiment that there have been too many fabers around here... since i have been the main offender, i shall pledge not to do any more fabers until further notice.

I also pledge to knock off the Faber attempts.

Bruce

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 3:56:50 AM

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1 ever 3 weeks isn't to much

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 3:59:47 AM

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Dang rain isn't going to let up i guess i got to go run on a treadmill(which i realy hate doing).

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 4:09:15 AM

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Gentlemen -

There has been some sentiment that there have been too many fabers around here... since i have been the main offender, i shall pledge not to do any more fabers until further notice.

(Lowers gun from Roberts head)

"Good. That sounded unrehersed. Maybe they will stop now. Now I just need to find Bobo while I am here in Texas......"

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 4:10:40 AM

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Just remember...American cops have guns

True. But most cant hit the broad side of a barn.

I shoot expert.

I have yet to have to shoot a barn but if one gets out of line I will not hesitate to do so.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 4:19:28 AM

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where are ya?

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Gentlemen -

There has been some sentiment that there have been too many fabers around here... since i have been the main offender, i shall pledge not to do any more fabers until further notice.

(Lowers gun from Roberts head)

"Good. That sounded unrehersed. Maybe they will stop now. Now I just need to find Bobo while I am here in Texas......"

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 4:34:51 AM

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Well, off to bed for me...

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 4:36:11 AM

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No-turns-in-the-inbox-so-I'm-asking-stupid-questions-on-the-main-board tithe...

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 4:36:17 AM

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night Bob...

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 4:37:23 AM

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Dang rain isn't going to let up i guess i got to go run on a treadmill(which i realy hate doing).

Hot & muggy in Boston but no rain. I think I'd welcome some right now.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 5:02:35 AM

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No-turns-in-the-inbox-so-I'm-asking-stupid-questions-on-the-main-board tithe...

Turn in from tree! Time to kick those impertinent Japanese back to Tokyo.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 5:08:10 AM

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Let's see... Mike Solli... no, always tempting to blame him, but he has been in Staff College all the time...

That's for sure. A 12+ hour day for me today. Yes, I'm only on page 29 or 30 so I have a bit of catching up to do.

We just finished a briefing that was 165 power point slides.

That sucks.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 5:09:56 AM

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morning tithe

Howdy, Nik!

How are the typing fingers holding up after last night's Zero Bonus exchange???

What happened, and where did it happen?

(Now on page 30)

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 5:10:17 AM

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Mike did you see my PM?

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