27-01-2000 19:09									#1
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Now this is barbarian naval tactics!

quote: This is the transcript of the ACTUAL radio conversation of a US Naval ship and the Canadians, off the coast of Newfoundland, Oct 95. Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10-10-95. Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South, to avoid a collision. Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the North, to avoid a collision. Canadians: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision. Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course. Canadians: Negative. I say again, You will have to divert your course. Americans: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN. THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES ATLANTIC FLEET, WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS, AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH, I SAY AGAIN, THAT'S 15 DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTERMEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP. Canadians: We are a lighthouse. Your call.

Sorry, guys, I got this by e-mail today and I simply had to share. I know it should be in OT, but I go there seldom and it is the Civ2 Community with whom I identify.
No offence intended to our US colleagues (or not much anyway )


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	27-01-2000 20:39									#2
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Posting purely because I have an apropriate signature:

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	28-01-2000 10:52									#3
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Seagoon: What are you doing in the water Eccles?

Eccles: Duh, well everybody has to be somewhere.

Bloodnock and co still live on!

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	28-01-2000 03:45									#4
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LMAO. Great post, thanks.



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	28-01-2000 04:26									#5
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Gives me a laugh

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	28-01-2000 07:07									#6
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So did the Lighthouse move?

	29-01-2000 02:56									#7
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Sorry guys, it's an Urban Legend which dates all the way back to 1987. Details here: http://www.snopes.com/spoons/faxlore/lighthse.htm

It is a funny story though.