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Eichhörnchen 02-26-16 11:46 AM

He can always try, but I've got a Hero Mouse guarding my cheese:

http://i.imgur.com/rN7EPhJ.jpg

fireftr18 02-27-16 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen (Post 2384658)
He can always try, but I've got a Hero Mouse guarding my cheese:

http://i.imgur.com/rN7EPhJ.jpg

Now we know why Wernher left us. He got a job guarding French cheese.

Eichhörnchen 03-13-16 02:26 AM

http://i.imgur.com/qeXIfDw.jpg HEY, LOOK AT MY NUTS!

Aktungbby 03-13-16 11:07 PM

Game on BBY
 
http://www.addictinggames.com/shooting-games/defend-your-nuts-2-game.jsp https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...63eaf52d0e.jpg"Only two things are infinite: The Universe and human stupidity; And I'm not too sure about the Universe..." Philip K. Dick

Armistead 03-14-16 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2383496)


Don't recall you were next officer in line if the crew threw me overboard. Even then you would have to be approved be the FROC {First Rats Officer Club}..

Aktungbby 03-14-16 09:23 PM

HERO RATS...NOT!
 
Well any Chief of the Boat has to go up and down the hatch ladder with a pizza slice-without faltering: the ultimate BILGE test of leadership!:O:https://media.giphy.com/media/3ornjL...idmU/giphy.gif NATURALLY ALL OFFICER BILGE RATS R EXPECTED TO SHAVE AND BATHE REGULARLY https://45.media.tumblr.com/b0fc9e1d...4o1_r1_250.gifOH lord that's not Wolferz' bath water I hear running??...we're sinking!!!?? EVERY RAT FOR HIMSELF! RUN FER IT?!!!! https://media.giphy.com/media/wtYGemYMuw3FC/giphy.gif

Sailor Steve 03-14-16 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Armistead (Post 2389438)
Don't recall you were next officer in line if the crew threw me overboard. Even then you would have to be approved be the FROC {First Rats Officer Club}..

I don't think Jim wants to be an officer in The Bilge any more than I do. I believe his point is that he could shut The Bilge down if it was to be deemed necessary.

Not that he would. I'm just sayin'. :O:

Wolferz 03-15-16 05:12 AM

You have nothing to fear....
 
Unless you're afraid of whips, shackles, oars, life vests, Jimbuna, rat traps, grammar Nazis or the apocalypse. :huh:

Jimmy boy, around these parts is more like the Harbor Meister. :salute:
The Bilge is safely tucked into the Leeward side of the harbor at pier 666 with Wolferz keeping a watchful eye on his boat from his vantage point in the head is still very much in charge of this pool of muck. Anyone with a mucking difference of opinion on that point can just go fly a kite. Provided that you give the kite a long scaly tail for stability just so you don't land your kite in the bane of Charlie Brown (Monarch of the Forest) and exclaim....
RATS! Lucy's cuckoo nest is cheap enough for regaining your mental health, but save your nickels for your favorite things, like cheese , nuts, wine and sail boats.
:arrgh!:

Aktungbby 03-15-16 01:10 PM

"ET tu ya Brutes"
 
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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I don't think Jim wants to be an officer in The Bilge any more than I do. I believe his point is that he could shut The Bilge down if it was to be deemed necessary.

Not that he would. I'm just sayin'.
:O:

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
No thanks, I think I'll just hang on to the keys to the scuttling charges should they ever be needed :smug:

http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/...ps03a5adb3.jpg Matter resolved and reminder duly noted-always room for a
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'nasty ol crank' (incl. anyone over age 60+:damn: :oops:)
on the 'nasty ol' cranks' While our venerated King Rat Emeritus 'cranks out' our next course of action.. from the Motel 666 conning station!:Kaleun_Salivating: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/pict...pictureid=7639
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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
:har::har::har:

:O:
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Originally Posted by Wolferz
safely tucked into the Leeward side of the harbor at pier 666..... save your nickels for your favorite things, like cheese , nuts, wine and sail boats.

Fearless! how dare u mention all four of those things (my particular viCes) in a single sentence!!!! :dead:
I mean really; the 4 C's: Camembert Cashews, Chardonnay & Catalinas...:rock:...:oops:....:dead:! C.O.B Aktung :stare: Wait a sec...!!! its 3/15/16...The Ides of March and I'm in a forum today!!!!:k_confused:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ar-sa_mort.jpg

Jimbuna 03-15-16 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 2389462)
I don't think Jim wants to be an officer in The Bilge any more than I do. I believe his point is that he could shut The Bilge down if it was to be deemed necessary.

Not that he would. I'm just sayin'. :O:

I seem to have mislaid the fuse....you got a spare Steve?

http://i.imgur.com/VcE56kv.jpg

Sailor Steve 03-15-16 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2389683)
I seem to have mislaid the fuse....you got a spare Steve?

Me? I wouldn't know where to look for a thing like that. :shifty:

Jimbuna 03-15-16 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 2389698)
Me? I wouldn't know where to look for a thing like that. :shifty:

Have you tried looking under Wolferz dentures glass?

http://i.imgur.com/9IJKc7e.jpg

Aktungbby 03-15-16 06:51 PM

[QUOTE=Sailor Steve;2389698]Me? I wouldn't know where to look for a thing like that. :shifty:[/QUOTE
Hell's Belles YES U DO ! If yer down there cranking along with me; its right on the front end and will get the job done! http://www.charlestonillustrated.com...es/topedo1.jpg http://www.charlestonillustrated.com...es/topedo2.jpgMoreover: Those nasty REBELs may not have had a lanyard-detonated torpedo after all!
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Now scientists are learning the Hunley not only changed naval warfare by the way she traveled, but possibly also by the use of electrically detonated explosive technology. The Hunley may have employed one of the earliest, if not the first, electrically detonated explosives being launched by a ship. Electric detonation of a spar torpedo was not perfected by the British until the 1870’s. Senator Glenn McConnell, Chairman of the Hunley Commission, said, “The Hunley continues to prove that she was a high-tech machine that was generations ahead of her time.”
Over the course of the submarine’s excavation, scientists have found a number of tantalizing clues that point to a battery being aboard the Hunley. A metal plate was recovered near Hunley commander Lt. George Dixon’s station. The plate is approximately 4 inches wide, 16 inches long, 1/8 of an inch thick, and has a series of holes running along its perimeter, meaning it was most likely mounted to something or one component of a much larger device.
Preliminary surface analysis of the plate shows it has zinc and copper elements, the two main ingredients needed for a 19th century battery.
For a battery to be used to send an electric charge to detonate the torpedo, wire connecting the energy source to the torpedo would have been needed, and there is no shortage of wire on the sub. Near the plate, scientists found a copper wire with a looped end and there is a large spool of deteriorated wire hanging from the upper bulkhead in the forward ballast tank. If the plate proves to be part of a battery, the wire remnants recovered may have been part of the overall construction of an electric detonation system for the torpedo. Possibly it was a back-up incase the lanyard detonator fouled; or the lanyard was the back-up if the battery failed!:hmmm: It would not be the first time Hunley designers attempted to use high tech technology to maximize the sub’s effectiveness as an underwater weapon. One of the Hunley’s predecessors, the American Diver, had originally been engineered to use an electromagnetic engine to propel the vessel. The Hunley’s builders returned to the hand-cranked design when they were unable to generate enough horsepower to achieve speed levels that were needed for a stealth attack.

In any case, After signaling to shore the mission had been accomplished, the submarine and her crew of eight vanished. The torpedo was designed by the Singer Company. It had 135 pounds of black powder, with three spring-loaded triggers in the center, according to the drawing.
Jacobsen said the torpedo was detonated by a lanyard probably pulled somehow from inside the submarine.
New Details
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Mardikian gave Civil War News many new details about the spar itself.
The spar is 16 feet long and hollow, made from a metal sheet about 3 or 4 millimeters thick folded into a tube shape. Its outside diameter is about 2.5 inches. A seam down its length is visible now that the concretion has been removed.
The spar was made from two tubes joined by a coupling on the outside. Additionally, a chunk of steel was riveted inside at the joint to strengthen it.
The sleeve of the torpedo cylinder was secured with a vertical nut and bolt at one end of the spar. not only was part of the torpedo casing on the spar, but it was attached with a nut and bolt.
This demonstrates that the torpedo was never meant to come off the spar, contrary to the conventional understanding of how it worked.:stare:
Mardikian said he learned something was on the end of the spar when he X-rayed it about 10 years ago. He originally thought the sleeve was made of lead until he removed the concretion from the spar last summer and discovered it was copper and was part of the torpedo itself.
“The new findings on the spar change the entire configuration,” said Maria Jacobsen, chief archeologist for the Hunley project. She recently presented the new data to the Hunley’s owners, the U.S. Navy.
“The conventional wisdom [about how the spar torpedo worked] seemed very suspicious and very unlikely to most of us,” she said. “It seemed like an unlikely way of implanting a torpedo,” especially if the target is a ship’s hull sheathed in metal to prevent barnacles, as was a common practice.

http://hunley.org/main_index.asp?CONTENT=press&ID=128 http://futureforce.navylive.dodlive.mil/2014/10/how-did-hunleys-crew-die/ http://futureforce.navylive.dodlive....2-1024x343.png

Wolferz 03-16-16 12:02 AM

OMG!!!
 
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Originally Posted by Aktungbby (Post 2389605)
http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/...ps03a5adb3.jpg Matter resolved and reminder duly noted-always room for a on the 'nasty ol' cranks' While our venerated King Rat Emeritus 'cranks out' our next course of action.. from the Motel 666 conning station!:Kaleun_Salivating: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/pict...pictureid=7639
:O:
Fearless! how dare u mention all four of those things (my particular viCes) in a single sentence!!!! :dead: I mean really; the 4 C's: Camembert Cashews, Chardonnay & Catalinas...:rock:...:oops:....:dead:! C.O.B Aktung :stare: Wait a sec...!!! its 3/15/16...The Ides of March and I'm in a forum today!!!!:k_confused:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ar-sa_mort.jpg

I can't stop laughing:har::haha: or believe how cleverly I set that up:know: I guess I covered all the bases... Who's on first:06:
Ya wanna go sailing Bob? I brought some rope and we can tie you to the mast.
I have but one thing to say about all of this scallywaggery....
Put Ze candle baack!

Wolferz 03-16-16 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2389722)
Have you tried looking under Wolferz dentures glass?

http://i.imgur.com/9IJKc7e.jpg

These are not my dentures.:haha:
Mine are firmly fix-o-dented in my face.:D See?

Wolferz 03-20-16 10:03 PM

Who wants transfer orders....
 
To the good ship Lollipop?
You'll be under the command of Captain Hasselhoff and will join his crew...
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...2-original.jpg


I hope those uniforms fit you.:arrgh!:
Maybe you'll get lucky and become his first mate.

He really likes to mate.:timeout:

fireftr18 03-22-16 08:29 PM

Wolferz, just when I had successfully suppressed the awful memory of that night you, Armistead, and Wernher dressed up all alike and attacked Hasselhoff on stage. I was at a back table drinking and I still got thrown out and in jail with the rest of you. I'm just glad the judge believed my story.
:Kaleun_Mad:

Wolferz 03-24-16 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by fireftr18 (Post 2391863)
Wolferz, just when I had successfully suppressed the awful memory of that night you, Armistead, and Wernher dressed up all alike and attacked Hasselhoff on stage. I was at a back table drinking and I still got thrown out and in jail with the rest of you. I'm just glad the judge believed my story.
:Kaleun_Mad:

Judges can be pliable and understanding when you cross their palm with silver:arrgh!::haha:

Wolferz 03-25-16 10:50 PM

I forgot
 
The reason we attacked the 'Hoff was to get him to STOP singing!!!!

It wasn't our fault that all those women went berserk! FF, all you had to do was clam up and those ladies wouldn't have attacked you.
But, you just had to give us a standing O didn't you?
All that clapping, whistling and shouting BRAVO! sealed your fate buddy.:shucks:

fireftr18 03-26-16 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolferz (Post 2392570)
But, you just had to give us a standing O didn't you?
All that clapping, whistling and shouting BRAVO! sealed your fate buddy.:shucks:

So that's what it was. Everyone misunderstood. I was cheering for the bouncers that were throwing all of you out.


At least I thought I was anyway.

:()1:


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