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Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/20/2005 10:38:23 PM

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In the respective shipside folders, there are 19 copies each of the Yamato and Iowa class shipsides. Why?

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/20/2005 11:04:40 PM

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Its the kind of thing you don't ask.

Like Area 51 stuff

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/20/2005 11:07:29 PM

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Yeah, I'll probably be "disappeared" now, for bringing this into the light...

<Is that the X-Files theme I hear playing in the background...?>

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/20/2005 11:35:07 PM

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More like

"Terminus have you taken your medication?"

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/20/2005 11:36:26 PM

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Can't... The others didn't like it...

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/20/2005 11:37:12 PM

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Danes....

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/20/2005 11:38:50 PM

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I've long since stopped trying to argue with the voices in my head. They always ended up shouting me down...

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/20/2005 11:42:52 PM

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Comes from all that heat. Denmark is like, located in Africa.......right?

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/20/2005 11:43:57 PM

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Huh huh huh

Next to that place whats its called..........err......Greenland yeah?

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/20/2005 11:45:01 PM

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Yeah, it's called Greenland, so it's got to be hot, right?

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 12:06:50 AM

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Right T, right. Keep taking the medication.......

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 12:09:26 AM

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I keep telling you, they won't let me...

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 1:01:37 AM

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is this spam or what?

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 1:03:03 AM

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Spam? I see no spam GH. Where's the spam?

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 1:10:52 AM

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No spam here, seeing as how this is my thread, and I'm certainly not a spammer. Still haven't gotten an answer to my original question, though...

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 2:00:54 AM

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I have no answer but it doesn't matter. It's probably just cruft left over from someone's file manipulations at some point in the distant past. Like the "BTR" strings in the code ... ;)

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 3:28:57 AM

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spam....

yummy....

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 3:41:58 AM

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Yeah, it's called Greenland, so it's got to be hot, right?

My uncle was stationed in Greenland when he was in the Army in the early 60's ... he was told there was a girl behind every tree there

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 3:58:20 AM

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My uncle was stationed in Greenland when he was in the Army in the early 60's ... he was told there was a girl behind every tree there

I was on deployment with VP-5 to Keflavik, Iceland in 1975 and we were flying an ice patrol along the west coast of Grrenland when we had an overspeed on #3 engine. We made a precautionary landing in Thule, Greenland and ended up spending the "night" (it was June so there wasn't any "night"). They didn't have enough barracks space for us so they put us up in an old Quonset hut that was half buried in snow and ice. We had to dig out an area in front of the door just to get in. Inside there was an old coal-fired stove that was to provide heat but the coal was buried in the snow outside. Being junior man on the crew at the time, you can guess who got to dig it out and keep the stove going all night.

Learned that the runway is painted white! Thought that was dumb, white runway on white snow and ice. Never did learn why though.

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 4:51:10 AM

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Spent 1982-83 in Keflavik with the good old USMC. I hear they've largely shut the whole place down, now ... :-(

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 5:24:42 AM

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I did 2 deployments to Keflavik; the first with VP-5 in 1975, the second with VP-40 in 1985. I used to hang out at the MarBar there... good food!

I believe patrol squadrons still deploy to Kef but I'm pretty much out of touch with the tempo of ops up there anymore.

The 85 deployment was very interesting. The Soviets sortied about a dozen SSNs and SSGNs into the Norweigian Sea and North Atlantic in May along with the usual transitting boomers. It was a major Soviet exercise and we flew our butts off against them. We racked up more constructive kills against those subs than anyone has before or since. IIRC, a Brit Nimrod squadron (203 or 206, can't remember) from Kinloss augmented us. It was a blast watching the Brits in action. Those guys were good!

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 5:38:47 AM

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quote:

It's probably just cruft left over from someone's file manipulations

Leftover cruft? Ugh.

I know a woman who works for Hormel. She's in Spam....

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 6:09:35 AM

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Really?! Man, I gotta go there!

...Um

Wait...

Um, there are no trees in Greenland, is there?

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 12:10:22 PM

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Aah, you are learning, young Padawan!

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 12:52:37 PM

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Spam, spam, spam, spam.

SHUT UP!

Bloody vikings!

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 1:27:33 PM

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Hi Chez -

A thought on the 'white runway'. Could it be that they wanted to reflect the sun back to prevent heat building up and melting the snow/ice?

Regards,

Steven

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 1:37:29 PM

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That actually sounded somewhat cogent. Not feeling yourself today, Speedy?

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 2:03:01 PM

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Yeah, that may be it. I know that asphalt runways built up on permafrost are sometimes painted white to reduce thaw penetration and resulting subsidence of the runway surface. That would be true at Thule, but isn't Keflavik built on rock?

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 2:09:10 PM

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Terminus - you're clearly jealous of my broad and detailed knowledge on worldy matters. Get in line scumbag.

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RE: Strange, dude... Strange... - 10/21/2005 2:44:26 PM

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Whatever gets you through the days, Speedmeister...

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