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2006-11-17 China-Japan-Koreas

France inspecting N. Korean ship in Indian Ocean

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Posted by Fred 2006-11-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Make sure you go over it real good. Take a couple of weeks even. Don't forget to rip up the floorboards, too. All of them.

Posted by gorb 2006-11-17 00:48|| 2006-11-17 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 France?

Posted by Bobby 2006-11-17 05:47|| 2006-11-17 05:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Why would a North Korean ship stop over at Mayotte, a French-administered island between Mozambique and Madagascar?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-17 06:45|| 2006-11-17 06:45|| Front Page Top

#4 They wanted to work on their tans?

Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan 2006-11-17 07:28|| 2006-11-17 07:28|| Front Page Top

#5 India caught one at Mumbai the other day. Sounds like they're testing, stressing, lulling the system.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-11-17 08:15|| 2006-11-17 08:15|| Front Page Top

#6 From CIA World Factbook: Mayotte
Population: 201,234 (July 2006 est.)
Economic activity is based primarily on the agricultural sector, including fishing and livestock raising. Mayotte is not self-sufficient and must import a large portion of its food requirements, mainly from France. The economy and future development of the island are heavily dependent on French financial assistance, an important supplement to GDP. Mayotte's remote location is an obstacle to the development of tourism.

Agriculture - products: vanilla, ylang-ylang (perfume essence), coffee, copra
Industries: newly created lobster and shrimp industry, construction

Posted by Steve 2006-11-17 08:24|| 2006-11-17 08:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Have they lost their collection of tar and feathers perchance ?

Posted by MacNails 2006-11-17 09:13|| 2006-11-17 09:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Agriculture - products: vanilla, ylang-ylang (perfume essence), coffee, copra
Industries: newly created lobster and shrimp industry, construction

ylang-ylang....Pyongyang. They just got lost.

Posted by john">john 2006-11-17 09:58|| http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/]">[http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/] 2006-11-17 09:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Why would a North Korean ship stop over at Mayotte, a French-administered island between Mozambique and Madagascar?

The French can be bought. They're on the other side, I would not put it past them to give the all clear on a ship when the truth was the opposite. Some day we'll have to flatten France along with a few others. That's if we survive their combined first strike.

Posted by Mick Dundee 2006-11-17 10:06|| 2006-11-17 10:06|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm waiting for the French to surrender to the Nork ship.

Posted by wxjames 2006-11-17 10:18|| 2006-11-17 10:18|| Front Page Top

#11 They need to perform a catastrophic failure tensile strength test on all of the ship's hull plate rivets.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-17 12:49|| 2006-11-17 12:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Zen....

You wanna sink the ship, yes? But you don't need to test all the rivets. I bet a couple of hundred would be sufficient.

Bobby the (civil)engineer

Posted by Bobby 2006-11-17 14:19|| 2006-11-17 14:19|| Front Page Top

#13 You can never be too sure, Bobby. Wouldn't want even a single defective one to slip through. We've the crew's safety to consider!

Zenster, the failure analyst.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-17 14:41|| 2006-11-17 14:41|| Front Page Top

#14 I'd test the welds.

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-17 14:51|| 2006-11-17 14:51|| Front Page Top

#15 For instance, I recall William was defective.

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-17 14:52|| 2006-11-17 14:52|| Front Page Top

#16 First Charles, now William. Will England never find a viable successor?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-17 15:29|| 2006-11-17 15:29|| Front Page Top

#17 For instance, I recall William was defective.

Good one, Shipman! Dry, very dry.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-11-17 20:15|| 2006-11-17 20:15|| Front Page Top

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