Victorian Strangeness

[Jimbuna]

Nothing quite beats firing a torpedo down a high street :doh:

The man they came to know as "Wild" Cunningham gazed ruefully down the main street of his home town at a scene of devastation. Wrecked buildings. A flattened shop. Debris littered all around. And a smoke trail, like an accusing finger, leading right back to where he stood.

Perhaps, on reflection, he had gone too far.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27440191

[Platapus]

Oops :oops:

In retrospect, an injudicious thing to do.

He did, however, have an interesting design for his torpedo. :up:

[TarJak]

Too far? Pah! Not far enough sez I.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/2014/04/24/6b81925e-c815-11e3-bf7a-be01a9b69cf1_story.html

[Wolferz]

I wouldn't call sinking a meat store a success.:hmmm:

[Oberon]

I remember reading somewhere that we once torpedoed a beach on which an Admiral and his wife were watching the exercise. Fortunately it was a practice torpedo, but it caused them quite a shock. :haha:

There's also a rumour floating around that we accidentally nuked a golf course up in Scotland after ejecting a Red Beard nuclear weapon from a Scimitar in trouble, the bomb fizzled and only produced a 10t explosion. I don't believe it myself, but stranger things have happened.

[Tango589]

There's also a rumour floating around that we accidentally nuked a golf course up in Scotland...the bomb fizzled and only produced a 10t explosion.
That would leave quite a bunker to play round!:o

[Wolferz]

That would leave quite a bunker to play round!:o


Lateral hazards have very forgiving rules already built in.:up:

[vienna]

Message to Cunningham: "Be more aggressive!"...


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[Aktungbby]

Oops ...He did, however, have an interesting design for his torpedo. :up: Indeed! those rifling cannilures indicate 'a new spin' on things circa 1896! I suspect however where the inspiration came from in a New Bedford, Massachusetts man!:hmmm: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpoon:hmmm:) Ye oid (Norwegian) exploding harpoon-1870...kicked up to Miller-time BBY! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Bomb_Lance_Harpoon_for_whales.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Bomb_Lance_Harpoon_for_whales.jpg)http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/74903000/jpg/_74903308_biggerpic.jpg

That would leave quite a bunker to play round!:o Yup! Requiring stout hearts, stiff putters and dimpled balls and the most ubiquitous invention of all...1898: by an African-American Harvard grad! Some well-lathed 4" beechwood! Rifled EEL's or TEE'd up balls, in the Victorian Era, straight shooting obviously meant somethin'!:03:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304081804579557864106829126?mg=ren o64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB1000 1424052702304081804579557864106829126.html (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304081804579557864106829126?mg=ren o64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB1000 1424052702304081804579557864106829126.html) http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/NA-CB192_SP_GOL_G_20140516164910.jpg

[Wolferz]

I hear the teed off law dogs gave his putter a mashie prior to being bagged and driven to the19th hole.