Sunday, May 11, 2014

Day 293 - Bullet Train Gap, The Case For C-Littoral Stimulation, Just Risk A Phone Call To The Cops, and Feeding Starving Polar Bears Is Free With The Right Incentive

12:39 PM Mr. Silver
"Iraq Joins 'Modern Trains' Club After Years of Pummeling By Primitive US Forces"
12:41 PM Mr. Silver
"USA No Longer Factor In 'Mutually Assured Transportation' Strategy of Major World Powers."
12:44 PM Mr. Silver
"USA Claims That They Have Advanced Train Technology Scoffed At By International Community." 
"Five Years, Minimum, Until USA Could Produce A Refined Rail Engine, Say Inspectors."
12:45 PM Mr. Blue
So Iraq has nicer trains than the US.
12:45 PM Mr. Amethyst
We have nicer guns.
12:56 PM Mr. Brown
They probably do on the train thing.
All other places have better trains than us.
12:57 PM Mr. Amethyst
I don’t know man; Alaska has some nice ones.  I mean...Canada part of Alaska, right?
12:59 PM Mr. Silver
Related but unrelated: "Iraq's new train is capable of carrying 343 passengers in its comfortable air-conditioned passenger and sleeper cars, and another 875 on the roofs of the cars, assuming traveling at the standard 40MPH speed."
12:59 PM Mr. Amethyst
Hahahaha
I love that!
The India trains with 600000000 people crammed in.



9:53 AM Mr. Silver
My favorite is back!!!
USS Freedom, pictured here inexplicably listing over to port in calm waters.”
9:56 AM Mr. Amethyst
Right, WTF is that about?
10:02 AM Mr. Silver
Sounds like a big ol' piece of aluminum poop.
10:03 AM Mr. Amethyst
Alumipoo
Mr. Silver
As always...we have to get to the revelation that my favorite configuration is the Littoral C...or C-littoral
10:05 AM Mr. Amethyst
Ah yes...the pleasure center of naval combat.
10:06 AM Mr. Blue
Heh.
10:06 AM Mr. Silver
The C-Littoral was intended to be stealth capable, but most women sailors are able to find a C-Littoral instinctively.
Mr. Silver
If spotted, in testing the C-littoral variant becomes very loud and difficult to control during maneuvers.
10:10 AM Mr. Amethyst
It also has a predisposition to leaking fluids.
10:10 AM Mr. Silver
Nod.  It is infamous in the industry for its persistent dampness issues and slippery decks.
"There is some question about the crew compliment being too large for such a small vessel, but the Department of the Navy has assured congress that it can hold a lot of seamen."
10:12 AM Mr. Amethyst
We’re 4th graders.
10:12 AM Mr. Silver
?
10:13 AM Mr. Amethyst
Advanced topic, same maturity level.
LOL
10:13 AM Mr. Silver
Ah.  :-)
11:06 AM Mr. Silver
Back to the jokes...Wasn't done! 
"Naval R&D pressed that additional funding for specific aspects of the Littoral platform would help resolve the problems.  Unfortunately the stimulus programs for the A, B and D Littoral configurations were revoked.  Only Admiral Abigail White successfully petitioned to keep funds, stating that the C-Littoral's needs could never be satisfied without a full stimulus program."
Mr. Brown
When the C-Littoral is aggressively handled, the controls will cause adverse course corrections.
11:32 AM Mr. Silver
"The Department of the Navy recently questioned the seemingly inexplicable inclusion of a torpedo bay under the prow of the C-Littoral which could easily accommodate torpedoes of all types and sizes, yet no such ordinance is carried aboard full time; only for periodic naval exercises.  When this decision was questioned, Admiral White commented that this would be "Just weird"."
11:35 AM Mr. Amethyst
Also noting that the simultaneous use of a single torpedo by two sub C-Littoral torpedo bays is relatively common in today’s more "open" naval exercises
Mr. Blue
The first C-Littoral will be named USS Clinton
How's that?  Sorry for the  delay.
12:10 PM Mr. Amethyst
Well done
12:17 PM Mr. Silver
"President Bill Clinton backed the entire Littoral ship program in its early days, but loved the C-Littoral variant above all the others and was constantly pushing for access to view the designs, handle the models, and tour the prototype.  Mrs. Hillary Clinton did not share his enthusiasm; though it's rumored she kept a private hand on the project throughout its entire development."
12:41 PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
12:48 PM Mr. Brown
Bill Clinton: I placed the C-Littoral in my mouth but I did not inhale.  I have a very large mouth.
12:49 PM Mr. Silver
Bleh
12:49 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah, I know
The C-Littoral’s compass always points north.
12:50 PM Mr. Silver
?!?! 
Ship jokes!  Military jokes!  (claps hands impatiently) Work with me, man!
1:06 PM Mr. Silver
"The original Littoral designs were submitted in a DARPA contest for a new coaster ship solution, with the winner being a relative unknown in the industry - a military hobbyist and maritime engineer named Patrick Rubb.  The special trials of the C-Littoral project, specifically, were documented by his wife in the biography she wrote of him - 'Pat Rubb and The C-Littoral: The Little Man Inside A Big Boat'."
(I think I'm tapped out after that one...)
1:08 PM Mr. Amethyst
LMAO



Mr. Brown
I watched the movie “Home Front” the other day.
It wasn't bad.
Good action.
8:20 AM Mr. Silver
It didn't review so well.
Well...they can't all be "Retrograde".
8:22 AM Mr. Brown
Yeah, it has a good base for an action movie: trying to get away from a life of action, action finds him.
LOL
Then he kicks everybody’s ass.
8:36 AM Mr. Silver
Did he ever call the DEA?
8:36 AM Mr. Brown
He called one of his buddies for info and handled it all himself like a true action star.
LOL
8:37 AM Mr. Silver
(Rolls eyes)
I just have trouble suspending disbelief with stuff like this.
8:44 AM Mr. Silver
(movie trailer voice over) "They pushed him to the edge... One man... One purpose... One confrontation... One bullet... One chainsaw… Seven dumpsters upstate... One cold case investigation... Jason Statham IS "The Man Who Should Have Just Called His Cop Friends".
8:45 AM Mr. Brown
LOL
8:49 AM Mr. Blue
"Now one man must risk everything..."
Every movie has someone risking everything.
8:51 AM Mr. Silver
(movie trailer voice over) "Now, instead of letting it go or just moving because he's only lived in the town for like a week and has made one friend at his crappy job...one man must risk everything."
8:52 AM Mr. Blue
"Well, he's not really risking *everything*, and he doesn't even have to risk *anything*, but we got Jason Statham and damn it we're going to use him."
8:54 AM Mr. Silver
"Jason Statham, in 'Little Town of Violent Idiots'."
9:07 AM Mr. Brown
Ok, so I’ll watch the rock as Hercules.
9:13 AM Mr. Blue
The Rock's Hercules movie will probably be better than that other one that was released earlier.
9:14 AM Mr. Silver
Like...all of them?
9:14 AM Mr. Blue
Uhh, the one released earlier in the year.
I think they rushed it out to capitalize on the hype of the Rock's Hercules movie, but really, have any of the Hercules movies been good?
9:15 AM Mr. Silver
"Now Hercules must risk nothing in particular because he's a divine superhero..."
9:15 AM Mr. Blue
Maybe the Disney cartoon.
9:17 AM Mr. Silver
"This Summer, don't miss The Rock in "Hercules: Pumped Greek Moron Punches Stuff"."
9:18 AM Mr. Blue
"Hercules Conquers the Green Screens"
9:20 AM Mr. Blue
"Hercules: Now with Less Lou Ferrigno"



Mr. Brown
Hey!  You can make 700,000 dollars counting polar bears!
11:02 AM Mr. Blue
I can do that.
11:02 AM Mr. Silver
Me too.
11:02 AM Mr. Blue
Depending on how many there are, I guess.
11:03 AM Mr. Silver
$1 per bear!
11:03 AM Mr. Blue
Do I have to label them also?
11:04 AM Mr. Silver
"And you'll have to go up and clip one of these to the ear."
"Right...tranq gun 'em and clip 'em."
"Tranq gun?"
11:05 AM Mr. Blue
"What happened to the last guy?"
"We can only infer what happened based on the trail of blood and paw prints.  We won't lie, this job can get dangerous.  You might need this."  *hands you a whistle*
11:09 AM Mr. Silver
"BTW, if you find a droppings pile with about 100 of these clips in it, we want them back."