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[beachcomber]

Subject: You'll love this one
>
> I have a day calendar for "The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said". This
> is
> today's:
>
>
> U.S. Ship: Please divert your course 0.5 degrees to the south to avoid
> a collision.
>
> Canadian reply: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the
> south to avoid a collision.
>
> U.S. Ship: This is the captain of a U.S. Navy ship. I say again,
> divert your course.
>
> Canadian reply: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course!
>
> U.S. Ship: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS CORAL SEA. WE ARE A LARGE
> WARSHIP OF THE U.S. NAVY. DIVERT YOUR COURSE NOW!!
>
> Canadian reply: This is a lighthouse. Your call.
>
> actual transcript of a radio conversation between a US naval ship and
> Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland, released by the
> Chief of Naval Operations on October 10, 1995.

 

[Mel Laird]

Hardly, or that lighthouse keeper was realllly slow

My first post and it is one of "criticism"

I find that "story" that supposedly was released by the CNO sort of ironic, seeing that Coral Maru was sitting in the Philly Navy Yard circa 1992 (nineteen NINETY TWO) awaiting the breakers??????

Of course that is about the 50-60th time I have heard that yarn, each time with a different ship , or it could be the incident happened pre 92 and the story was declassified in 95, uh huh!

 

[beachcomber]

Mel Laird
thank you for the correction you are obviously more knowledgeable in this area than myself and it just goes to show you cannot believe everything you read I personally still found the story humorous as possibly you did the first time you heard it', but if everything we read had to be totally true I think there would be very little to read and less to smile about.B/C

 

[Criss Colon]

Lighten Up!!!

I am a US Navy Retired veteran.I thought that it was funny too! It made fun of the "Captain" after all!We get lots of "Supposedly" true stories here,take them as "Humerous Stories" nothing personal.The "Darwin Awards" are a good example.Look them up on "Google" for some laughs.The "Urban Legends" are also fun! The one about waking up in the ice-filled bathtub of your hotel,with a kidney removed is my favorite! I actually got an e-mail from a friend "Warning" me to be careful! But then he lives in California!! CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCc

 

[Mel Laird]

Tough group here

I had hoped my use of "smileys" would convey the humorous intent of my reply.

I spent three tours on Coral Sea, one in Intel, so a "special bond" is present

Keep smiling.