In news:1s8310d4ggd96ifpr0nsho6omfs5sfutni@4ax.com,
Michael Cash <buggeroff@fake.com> radiated into the WorldWideWait:
> On 22 Jan 2004 17:00:37 -0800, Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com>
> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:05:40 -0600, Duke of URL  ...
>>> In news:hcb-FA09AD.10494522012004@text.giganews.com,
>>> Howard Berkowitz <hcb@gettcomm.com> radiated into the
>>> WorldWideWait:
>>>> In article <CKMPb.270139$vO5.11027058@twister1.libero.it>,
>>>> pgde8@libero.it wrote:
>>>>> Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  To start, what's your
>>>>>> bets about when the ski-jump will appear in published drawings
>>>>>> for the new DDH design?
>>>>>
>>>>> If they copy the Italian Garibaldi half-scam, well after the
>>>>> ships was laid
>>>>> down.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll propose another Naval bet: what name they will have ? I bet
>>>>> Hosho and
>>>>> Ryujo, wchich will be nicely translated into "Experimentation"
>>>>> and "training". Surely the follow-up class (whose, if I have
>>>>> understand correctly will be enough larger and of 5-6 ships)
>>>>> will have more mean names
>>>>> (at least for US ears).
>>>>
>>>> In all fairness, Japanese warships tend to have rather friendly
>>>> names having something to do with nature. Just because you call
>>>> something "floating chrysanthemum" or "cherry blossom" doesn't
>>>> mean it won't act nastily!
>>>
>>> True, but it /does/ put a strain upon the ear. Imeantersay,
>>> picture being threatened by a warship named "King Brucie"...

>> Imagine being threatened by the Ronald Reagan, after sacking all
>> the flight control officers
>
> But it would immediately replace them with military ones.
>
>> it would get lost and attack the wrong country.
>
> Problem of perspective. From the traditional Sepponian viewpoint,
> *any* country we choose to attack is the right country. So that last
> bit was obviously an attempt at humor.

Oh, is *that* what it was. I wondered... Needs more work.