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A WTF Moment | 73 comments (73 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: A WTF Moment (none / 0)

What would those two subs have been doing on a shared exercise?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Feb 16th, 2009 at 07:38:15 AM EST
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Re: A WTF Moment (4.00 / 8)

Making love, not war?

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death.

by davel on Mon Feb 16th, 2009 at 07:46:05 AM EST
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Re: A WTF Moment (4.00 / 3)

No doubt there will be a Steve Bell cartoon covering this in the very near future...

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Feb 16th, 2009 at 10:12:47 AM EST
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Steve Bell (4.00 / 2)

Here it is -- Steve Bell's take:

by Magnifico on Tue Feb 17th, 2009 at 01:59:25 AM EST
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Re: A WTF Moment (none / 1)

Best comment of the day.

by jjellin on Mon Feb 16th, 2009 at 10:35:58 AM EST
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Re: A WTF Moment (4.00 / 3)

They were probably chasing eachother and then, something went wrong. You know, boys playing with toys, who has the fastest sub?

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." (Einstein)

by B girl on Mon Feb 16th, 2009 at 07:47:40 AM EST
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Re: A WTF Moment (4.00 / 2)

Playing hide and seek (presumably jointly with attack submarines). Which is good training for their real mission, which is (i) hide and shoot or (ii) seek and destroy.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Feb 16th, 2009 at 07:57:11 AM EST
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Re: A WTF Moment (4.00 / 11)

Or the english were on the wrong side of the sea..

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." (Einstein)

by B girl on Mon Feb 16th, 2009 at 08:00:07 AM EST
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