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Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 4:22:56 AM   
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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 4:24:22 AM   
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I think I am going to like this feature.....




With that Capt ... will you be getting or giving ?

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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 4:25:50 AM   
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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 5:33:44 AM   
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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 1:23:36 PM   
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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 1:59:16 PM   
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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 2:13:00 PM   
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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 2:57:30 PM   
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And don't think you are safe...I-10 managed to sink the Enterprise for me in my AI game, by attacking it 3 times in 2 days without taking a single depth charge attack in return...the DD screen was completely inept. 4 Type 95s did the job oh so nicely.

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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 3:04:51 PM   
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USS Nuts



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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 3:51:42 PM   
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I say we start a thread with name suggestions. Clever, profound, sentimental -- it doesn't matter.


Replacement CVs, in order

USS Pearl Harbor
USS Pearl Harbor Jr.
USS Pearl Harbor III
USS Pearl Harbor Optimus Prime . . .

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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 3:54:40 PM   
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I say we start a thread with name suggestions. Clever, profound, sentimental -- it doesn't matter.


I think I said this at an earlier time, but I have renamed one of mine USS Ranger. The real one will never make it to the PTO, and I think that name is just about the best warship name the USN ever adopted from the Revolutionary War. JPJ's letter requesting "a fast ship" still, after all these decades, gives me chills.

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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 5:13:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		in the spirit of naming carriers after influential and important figures in US history, i respectfully submit:

USS Benjamin Affleck

and

USS Yossarian



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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 5:38:01 PM   
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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 5:49:01 PM   
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How about the CV Minnow, in honor of Gilligan and the Captian?




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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 5:50:26 PM   
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USS Gnarly
USS Radical
USS Righteous
USS Cool Bud

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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 5:55:09 PM   
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USS Tokyo Rose

one of the sound bites in the game would be "this is Tokyo Rose reporting the sinking of Toyko Rose today near Okinawa"

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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 5:59:03 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Kwik E Mart

in the spirit of naming carriers after influential and important figures in US history, i respectfully submit:

USS Benjamin Affleck

and

USS Yossarian




What, no USS Minderbinder?

"This time Milo had gone too far. Bombing his own men and planes was more than even the most phlegmatic observer could stomach, and it looked like the end for him. … Milo was all washed up until he opened his books to the public and disclosed the tremendous profit he had made."

And, of course:

"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.

"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed."


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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 5:59:50 PM   
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i've always thought a surfer dude schema would be cool:

USS Gnarly
USS Radical
USS Righteous
USS Cool Bud


How about, just USS The Dude. (He abides.)

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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 6:42:34 PM   
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i've always thought a surfer dude schema would be cool:

USS Gnarly
USS Radical
USS Righteous
USS Cool Bud


How about, just USS The Dude. (He abides.)




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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 6:45:03 PM   
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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 6:56:12 PM   
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USS Peace
USS Love
USS Understanding

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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 6:56:33 PM   
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i've always thought a surfer dude schema would be cool:

USS Gnarly
USS Radical
USS Righteous
USS Cool Bud

Awesome! Totally Awesome!

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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 7:04:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm old school. I named them for old ships of the USN that had been cancelled or renamed. I particularly like USS Reprisal. I named another USS Retailiation.They are going to sail with Enterprise2. And I just might name another for a famous British ship. USS Revenge. Not that I'm annoyed with Chickenboy or anything!

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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 7:11:37 PM   
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USS Blue
USS Humpback
USS Killer

and of course

USS <self censored>...use your imaginations, folks...


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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 7:17:16 PM   
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I'm old school. I named them for old ships of the USN that had been cancelled or renamed. I particularly like USS Reprisal. I named another USS Retailiation.They are going to sail with Enterprise2. And I just might name another for a famous British ship. USS Revenge. Not that I'm annoyed with Chickenboy or anything!

Well, you may want to make sure that you paint the right word on the bow. I'd run that 'Retailiation" through a spellcheck before you waste a good bottle of champagne on it.

"Retailiation"-isn't that basically a pricing war between two retailers? You know, like when Walgreens cuts their prices and CVS "retailiates"?

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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 7:34:44 PM   
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< Message edited by JohnDillworth -- 9/9/2010 7:37:40 PM >

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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 7:39:09 PM   
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One could go the George Foreman route and name them all "George" It would certainly make intelligence difficult when one is attacked by 300 aircraft from the seemingly same carrier.





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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 7:41:11 PM   
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i've always felt a little sorry for all the other sea creatures that missed the boat (pun intended) when naming US submarines...how about our friends the whales?

USS Blue
USS Humpback
USS Killer

and of course

USS <self censored>...use your imaginations, folks...



Well, there was a USS Whale.

I still think USS Sand Lance is the best sub name ever.

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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 7:44:47 PM   
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One could go the George Foreman route and name them all "George" It would certainly make intelligence difficult when one is attacked by 300 aircraft from the seemingly same carrier.



Or you could get an Abbot and Costello routine going by naming one US Submarine.

Japanese intel analyst: "Sir! US Submarine sighted!"

Officer: "Good work! Which submarine?"

Analyst: "US Submarine"

Officer: "I heard you the first time. Whcih submarine?"

Analyst: "US Submarine"

Officer, drawing sword . . .

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RE: Renamed my first carrier! - 9/9/2010 7:47:25 PM   
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