Comments on: “When I was a lad I served a term…”

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 06:49:44 +0000

Too good not to share –

https://babylonbee.com/news/arms-race-heats-up-just-as-china-reveals-space-nukes-america-responds-with-trans-admiral

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:15:17 +0000

Nothing on Admiral Phillips, but there was this yesterday, if anyone is interested.

https://www.eaglespeak.us/2021/10/us-navy-office-of-naval-intelligence_18.html
U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 15 September – 13 October 2021
(document Scribd without commentary)

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:10:14 +0000

Since I vaguely remembered some stories that were on point, I searched for “Navy ship collision” and also got this link, which references a joke I never get tired of, and also seems on point for the topic.

https://www.eaglespeak.us/2009/08/sunday-ship-history-lighthouse-joke.html

The blog header and blogger’s credentials are also germane, and I am going to see if he has anything posted about our new Maritime Administrator.

“We must be ready to dare all for our country. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. We must acquire proficiency in defense and display stamina in purpose.” – President Eisenhower, First Inaugural Address

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:03:19 +0000

@ Richard > “Do we know if this person has run a ship into another ship? I mean, that’s what it takes for promotion, right? Or is that sort of thing only necessary in the Army?”

I’m assuming you are one of those “anonymous people having knowledge of a situation” (does the Army have ships or was that just for the analogy??); however, the Navy will still cashier you for it (sometimes).

https://www.keloland.com/news/navy-filing-homicide-charges-against-2-ship-commanders/

https://news.yahoo.com/navy-cruiser-commanding-officer-fired-224855499.html

It’s good to be the Commander-in-chief and the hierarchy just below, who don’t have to worry about being court-martialed for incompetence,

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 18:52:09 +0000

@ Molly Brown > “and put an end to the whole commercial whoop dee do”

I try not to get anything Christmassy going until after Thanksgiving (the gifts stashed in the closet during the year’s crop of great sales doesn’t count), but I think I will pull out my well-worn copies of “The Grinch” franchise a bit early.

The animated movie is the best (after the book, of course).
Change my mind.

Never mind, don’t bother even trying.

By: NewYorkCentral

NewYorkCentral — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 16:32:14 +0000

Another recurring theme in Gilbert and Sullivan was ‘who you know, not what you know’ – something else that describes both this nomination in particular and the Biden administration in general.

By: Cappy

Cappy — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:07:49 +0000

Setting up a pool on when the numbnutz at FB/Wikipedia/YouseTube catch on that G&S may be sarcastic toward the current “better people” and they are memory holed out of existence.

You guys want in?

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:20:58 +0000

Geez, Neo. To the limited extent I can reproduce a melody…I’m banging along with this one. My folks had the record sixty-plus years ago and played it over and over. Hadn’t thought about it in half a century. Wow.

The Biden show must have somebody in charge of looking at the smart thing to do, judging it’s the smartest thing to do and then, because it’s the smartest thing to do, pitching it overboard as ineligible.
Do we know if this person has run a ship into another ship? I mean, that’s what it takes for promotion, right? Or is that sort of thing only necessary in the Army?

By: Molly+Brown

Molly+Brown — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 05:36:38 +0000

Gordon Scott,
Truly sorry about your paycheck – this ass of a governor here in Hawaii is doing the same (albeit in a different economic sector) to me. Can totally relate.
However, I almost wish the Dems would get on with it and cancel Christmas – as I have always said they will do – and put an end to the whole commercial whoop dee do. That will separate those of us who care about ‘The reason for the season’ and we can get back to Willie K’s ‘O Holy Night’ or Bach, or whatever, and the simple contemplation of ‘The Miracle’.
He he.
14 days and the Christmas playlist goes live!

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 04:24:34 +0000

OlderandWheezier on October 18, 2021 at 8:05 pm said:
If ever an administration was topsy-turvy….

Le Mot Juste on October 18, 2021 at 9:30 pm said:
…Highly recommended: Topsy-Turvy, the superb film examining G+S’s sometimes rocky partnership — along with the mores of Victorian society — with a gimlet eye.

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Serendipity or collusion?
The movie is really good (well, I have some dramatic-arc fixes I would have suggested if they had asked me)…caveat that the R really is deserved, for nudery in a short clip (unnecessary IMO) and implied drug use (possibly accurate, IDK).