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Quote:Threepony wrote:
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"SS Olympia? you bought a cruise ship? Wait that says USS.. you bought a WARSHIP!?"

"A antique warship, her keel was laid down in 1891. They where getting ready to sell her for scrap since they couldn't keep up with maintenance costs."
You know, the 'USS=warship' thing isn't actually true. It just means the ship is flagged to the US, and is of suitable size. I've heard of cargo ships with the USS prefix, as well.
Far as I know ONLY commissioned ships of the US navy use the USS prefix. The navy does employ cargo ships however, but most of those should be part of Sealift command. Which uses a different prefix normally.
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There's the 'Alabama Star', which had the USS prefix. The cargo vessel that got hijacked off of somalia and who's captain saved himself by shooting his captors.
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Threepony Wrote:There's the 'Alabama Star', which had the USS prefix. The cargo vessel that got hijacked off of somalia and who's captain saved himself by shooting his captors.
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
- "Maxwell Scott" (Carleton Young), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, by James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck, and Dorothy M. Johnson

Not saying you're wrong, mind you...
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"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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"So, we're going to call the new automatic defense system the Unified Linked Topology Reserve Operation Network......"
"... Tweaking SHIELD is so much fun"
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Dartz Wrote:"So, we're going to call the new automatic defense system the Unified Linked Topology Reserve Operation Network......"
"... Tweaking SHIELD is so much fun"
Not "Reserve", "Resiliency"...
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"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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Quote:Dartz wrote:
"So, we're going to call the new automatic defense system the Unified Linked Topology Reserve Operation Network......"
"... Tweaking SHIELD is so much fun"
"Egon, do you remember your Skynet Project?"
"It would have worked if you hadn't shut it down..."
"For who's definition of worked, Egon?
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-

NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
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"So, how long are we going to let the trekkies argue over making a Constitution?"

"Until it gets troublesome, Bob."

"What, like multiple competing engineering teams sabatoging each other after 'secretly' renting off the books yards to build their super prototypes? It's getting just a little out of hand."

"Hoof, Bob. Hoof."

"For you, maybe. You ever think about solving the problem for them?"

"I'm not sure if I want to know."

"Well, I've got this plan for a baby Constitution that somebody made..."

"You do realize this will go completely blue-hair, right? And don't even say 'What could go wrong' or 'You always have Blue Mane, Scratch'. You're meddling in things that are gonna totally go Narrativium."

"Hey, you taunted the dark lord, not me. 'Sides, it's not THAT much bigger than an Archer."

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"No matter how ridiculous or bizarre the meme, someone, somewhere will make an effort to 'wave it into existence."
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"How did you know it was me?"
"Miku, please. A mysterious power-armoured female vigilante calling herself 'Vision' shows up the same week you reveal you're fronting a Priss and the Replicants tribute act as a side project? It wasn't that hard to figure out. Though using your real voice as a double-bluff was a nice touch. So... Let's talk business."

(Can you tell I've been watching a lot of Bubblegum Crisis lately?)
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"We've found something. Something big."

(Working on something new/old, watch some other space for further developments.)
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

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"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
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"You are all dogs, chained to a post in the garden. You think you are free, that you can move wherever you like, but only because you have never tried to go beyond that same well worn patch of dirt you call home. When you try to reach beyond, only then will you feel the chain's true weight."
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Quote:M Fnord wrote:
"We've found something. Something big."

(Working on something new/old, watch some other space for further developments.)
"Lets poke it with a stick to see what happens!"
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Dakota Wrote:
Quote:M Fnord wrote:"We've found something. Something big."

(Working on something new/old, watch some other space for further developments.)
"Lets poke it with a stick to see what happens!"



Now that you remind me
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"I don't mind checking their (CI) virtual workspace, I find and suggest some very nice toys that way." Loviatar

"But you always leave with the feeling you haven't seen everything" (random co-worker)
 
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"Can somebody please inform me WHY I'M ON FIRE?!"
"Can you tell us why you haven't tried to stop being on fire?"
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"We're starting the UFoP - the Universal Franchise of Pancakes."
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"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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"Apparently, the only reason the aliens even noticed us is because they either think we were spammers, or we were interfering with the prime use of their internet."

"Solving the mysteries of the universe?"

"No, we were lagging out their porn by accident when we started poking the gates."
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"If it isn't funny to sneak wave into convention guac, and it isn't funny to sneak marijuana into brownies, what in the world makes you think it's funny to sneak catnip into the visiting catgirls' food supply?"
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Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.
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"We don't know who it was who decided to pick up that abandoned US military research project into a 'gay bomb', but whoever they were, they made it work. We also don't know how; we're pretty sure handwavium isn't capable of this.

"We do however know exactly whose idea it was to set it off at the Republican National Convention..."
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I just sat unblinking at having read that for several minutes.... WTF?
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My work here is done.
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Terrible Methods, Awful Results
"Ve haff vays of making you talk! Mu ha ha ha ha! Ze first is : ve ask politely! Then: prezzies! Vhen that does not vork, then ve vill wheedle and plead vith you: Pllllleeeaasseeee Talk!"
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"You see the Loon's head on eBay, you Buy Now and ask questions later, I suppose."
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An honest, if somewhat robotic, question
"Aren't all heads purposefully detachable?"
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"Well, we did the cost analysis and with our new budgetay environment, it turns out, using the old Dryden SR-71 to test the engines made the most financial sense, rather than designing a suspersonic airframe from scratch.... There's no rmance in it at all, we're a government agency, we're not allowed to be romantic. The taxpayers wouldn't stand for it."
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