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NLSoldier

10-31-2005, 02:40 AM

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diebitter

10-31-2005, 02:41 AM

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RiverFenix

10-31-2005, 02:42 AM

Snopes.com answers all (http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthse.htm)

shant

10-31-2005, 02:44 AM

http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthse.htm

NLSoldier

10-31-2005, 02:44 AM

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Snopes.com answers all (http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthse.htm)

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Tron

10-31-2005, 02:45 AM

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Snopes.com answers all (http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthse.htm)

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Ridiculous that Snopes calls this an "embarrasing conversation." Who is it embarrasing for? We would have pwned that lighthouse.

NLSoldier

10-31-2005, 02:46 AM

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Snopes.com answers all (http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthse.htm)

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Ridiculous that Snopes calls this an "embarrasing conversation." Who is it embarrasing for? We would have pwned that lighthouse.

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gamblore99

10-31-2005, 04:41 AM

This is awesome. One of the best posts in OOT. I was so sad to find out it is not true. Or you Americans claim its untrue anyways.

diebitter

10-31-2005, 04:47 AM

True or not, stories like this are always entertaining to me. I love urban legends of all types, but the horror/campfire ones are the best, like 'The Hook in the Car Door'.

Vavavoom

10-31-2005, 04:51 AM

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Happy Monday Morning....This made me laugh !

10-31-2005, 05:00 AM

jokerthief

10-31-2005, 05:52 AM

It's too bad this isn't true. If it was I think it would be worthy of a :

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mason55

10-31-2005, 06:00 AM

This is less believable than the Blair Witch Project

@bsolute_luck

10-31-2005, 10:04 AM

the always leave off the rest of the conversation:

Canadians: This is the lighthouse. Your Call.

Americans: Fire.

Ensuing sounds of a lighthouse being shelled to the bottom of the ocean.

jakethebake

10-31-2005, 10:06 AM

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I loved this story the first time i heard it ten years ago.

diebitter

10-31-2005, 10:07 AM

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I loved this story the first time i heard it ten years ago.

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Me too. It never gets boring.

I guess because it's so believable.

jakethebake

10-31-2005, 10:11 AM

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Me too. It never gets boring.

I guess because it's so believable.

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Actually it was boring the second time I heard it. And how is it believable? You actually think naval vessels depend on lighthouses so as not to crash into things?

Vavavoom

10-31-2005, 10:15 AM

diebitter

10-31-2005, 10:18 AM

It does represent an American world-view very nicely, and a
'rest-of-the-world' view even better.

In that sense, it's allegorical nature is ageless, and remains both amusing and representative of current world culture.

I don't interpret anything in the document about naval vessels depending on lighthouses - I think your projecting your own issues onto my statement/the original text here.

Ding-Ding round two...

jakethebake

10-31-2005, 10:23 AM

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It does represent an American world-view very nicely, and a 'rest-of-the-world' view even better.

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No arguement.

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I don't interpret anything in the document about naval vessels depending on lighthouses - I think your projecting your own issues onto my statement here.

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I'm not projecting any issues. There was no rally-round-the-flag in my statements. I just meant that it was funny once, but it's a really, really old joke and not at all funny anymore.

diebitter

10-31-2005, 10:24 AM

Hell, let's not argue. Let's go whoring!

jakethebake

10-31-2005, 10:25 AM

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Hell, let's not argue. Let's go whoring!

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This is an excellent idea!

Wes ManTooth

10-31-2005, 11:57 AM

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This is awesome. One of the best posts in OOT. I was so sad to find out it is not true. Or you Americans claim its untrue anyways.

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bawahahaha, the OP was not that funny, but your responce was... you were SO sad to find out ... BIMO

MonkeeMan

10-31-2005, 12:23 PM

This had to be a hoax, not once did the Canadians say "eh".

Blarg

10-31-2005, 03:06 PM

Nor did they call anyone hosers. Obviously a fake.

10-31-2005, 03:57 PM

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Me too. It never gets boring.

I guess because it's so believable.

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Actually it was boring the second time I heard it. And how is it believable? You actually think naval vessels depend on lighthouses so as not to crash into things?

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This is true, they don't. But, they do run into things occasionally. This results in the current CO never being allowed to have a ship ever again and promptly retire or sit behind a desk for the rest of his/her career. My bro took temporary command of a ship in the Gulf last year due to an inept CO colliding with a big bouy of some sort, See USS Firebolt (http://navysite.de/pboats/pc10.htm) .

VBM

10-31-2005, 04:09 PM

a funny story (http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthse.htm), but in this case it isn't actually true.

hoyaboy1

10-31-2005, 04:12 PM

Whenever you see something that seems too ridiculous to be true, check snopes.

diebitter

11-01-2005, 04:08 AM

Towards the end of WW2, the Germans were trying desperately trying ploys to halt their coming defeat. One such measure was the building of decoy airfields. They built one such field in Holland, out of wood. There were wooden hangers, oil tanks, gun emplacements, trucks, and aircraft. It took weeks and weeks of time and work, and finally the task was complete. That very day, a lone RAF bomber came into view, circled the field once above the strangely silent anti-aircraft guns, and then dropped its payload.

A large, wooden bomb.