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2005-02-17 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve from Relto 2005-02-17 9:25:01 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ok, so naming a Seawolf class sub after Jimmy Carter is pretty ScrappleFacey. But let's knock of the Jimmy Carter/attack sub jokes because this one is really an intelligence vessel....uhhh... nevermind.

Posted by SteveS 2005-02-17 9:59:26 AM|| 2005-02-17 9:59:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 What!!!!....no Play-Doh warheads?!! No Silly Putty torpedoes?!!

Posted by Tom Dooley 2005-02-17 10:08:13 AM|| 2005-02-17 10:08:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Ladies and Gents!

Remember Sen. Zell's speech?

Spitball warheads to be deployed! Pronto!

We'll really give Kimmy and the Mullahs somethin' to think about!

Posted by BigEd 2005-02-17 11:02:50 AM|| 2005-02-17 11:02:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I bet it even has a screen door.

Posted by Glereper Craviter4297 2005-02-17 11:08:30 AM|| 2005-02-17 11:08:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 # 4 was me. I don't know where the Glereper came from. Also, I bet they have plenty of boiled peanuts on board.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2005-02-17 11:46:55 AM|| 2005-02-17 11:46:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 IMOA has found the Captain's log of the USS Jimmy Carter:

...being all that separates us from the sea.
I could never admit to the crew the fear I have, though. Sure, they all joke about how our submarine was hacked together by a group of volunteers on a weekend and how, with our nuclear power, we won't have to wait in gas lines, but most are too young to really remember the unending horror that was the Carter presidency. Still, the crew all seems vaguely at unease, as if they're in a... well... malaise.

It's not like being named after that man is the mark of death, but...

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...the wound stings, but it's only superficial. I have no idea how many rabbits are hiding aboard this vessel, how they got here, and why they are attacking everyone in site. The crew is spooked. They're all taking it as a bad omen, just like how Ensign Chavez nearly choked to death on a peanut. Still, we...

Posted by Steve 2005-02-17 12:38:54 PM|| 2005-02-17 12:38:54 PM|| Front Page Top

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