I ƒee what you did there, ƒubby.

Ooh, incorrect use of the long s, but still very funny.
/pedant

These are the same people that say we have a spending problem.

Wow. This article combines wrap-yourself-in-the-flag-military-cawk-suck with joo-boy political correctness. head asplode.

God Is My Co-Pirate: Ooh, incorrect use of the long s, but still very funny.
/pedant

came for this, leaving satisfied.


/The long ſ muſt never be uſed at the End of a Word, nor immediately after the short s.

Let me get this straight: You want to recover the bodies from a ship that was sunk 300 years ago?
In a region of the world where there have been countless wars and countless wrecks on the bottom?

Good Luck with that.

The granularity of the inanity is inƒinite.
Congreƒ forever inane.

We have people going homeless and hungry and this is what they expend energy and tax dollars on?

Elfich: Let me get this straight: You want to recover the bodies from a ship that was sunk 300 years ago?
In a region of the world where there have been countless wars and countless wrecks on the bottom?

Good Luck with that.

math is hard

Bomb Head Mohammed: Wow. This article combines wrap-yourself-in-the-flag-military-cawk-suck with joo-boy political correctness. head asplode.

Why you filthy little hyphenater you! *shakes tiny fist*

Congrefs fays the Pentagon fhould fee if it can recover the remains of 13 Marines mifsing fince the explofion of the Intrepid. In 1804

FTFY.

Elfich: Let me get this straight: You want to recover the bodies from a ship that was sunk 300 years ago?
In a region of the world where there have been countless wars and countless wrecks on the bottom?

Good Luck with that.

TFA makes it seem as if the bodies were recovered from the water and interred in a mass grave in Tripoli, so not so hard to do. Not a big deal, really; there's a whole DoD operation devoted to repatriating U.S. servicemen's remains.

Olde.

Elfich: Let me get this straight: You want to recover the bodies from a ship that was sunk 300 years ago?
In a region of the world where there have been countless wars and countless wrecks on the bottom?

Good Luck with that.

Actually, I believe they want to recover little bits of bodies from a floating bomb carrying 100 barrels of powder and 150 fixed shells that was blown to smithereens from the bottom of a well-aerated harbor.

micah1701: math is hard

You're right. I realized it after posted it.

mbillips: Elfich: Let me get this straight: You want to recover the bodies from a ship that was sunk 300 years ago?
In a region of the world where there have been countless wars and countless wrecks on the bottom?

Good Luck with that.

TFA makes it seem as if the bodies were recovered from the water and interred in a mass grave in Tripoli, so not so hard to do. Not a big deal, really; there's a whole DoD operation devoted to repatriating U.S. servicemen's remains.

I'm also amused at the original moron's statement - as if there's never been any archaeological work done in the Mediterranean or Middle East.

Here's background on this (new window). Five of the Marines are interred in the Protestant cemetery in Tripoli. The Navy doesn't want to bring them back to the states, because why disturb their eternal rest? What are we gonna do, dig up all the soldiers from cemeteries in France?

How to make the kids laugh too loud at the museum: Read any info boads on the wall using the long-S as what it looks like -- a modern, slightly screwy 'f'.

"Greetings from her Majefty the Queen...."

mbillips: What are we gonna do, dig up all the soldiers from cemeteries in France?

Kinda why France gave the US concessions to those lands, so we don't have to.

mbillips: Here's background on this (new window). Five of the Marines are interred in the Protestant cemetery in Tripoli. The Navy doesn't want to bring them back to the states, because why disturb their eternal rest? What are we gonna do, dig up all the soldiers from cemeteries in France?

Yea, but that's the Navy, we're talking about the Marine Core here. Never leave a man behind.
Semper Fib!!!



\can't believe I'm the firft.
\\flafhies!

mekkab: God Is My Co-Pirate: Ooh, incorrect use of the long s, but still very funny.
/pedant

came for this, leaving satisfied.


/The long ſ muſt never be uſed at the End of a Word, nor immediately after the short s.

came for this x2.

As for the naming of ships, that needs to be cleaned up but not because of the Chavez. Congress constantly pressures the Navy to name ships one thing or other. It should be either an internal Navy decision or an independent commission of some kind. Hell, there is a ship named after the guy from Friends (new window)

Wellon Dowd: As for the naming of ships, that needs to be cleaned up but not because of the Chavez. Congress constantly pressures the Navy to name ships one thing or other. It should be either an internal Navy decision or an independent commission of some kind. Hell, there is a ship named after the guy from Friends (new window)

My favorite of these is the USS Halyburton (FFG-40). I'm a hardcore liberal, but I loved making idiot hippies look like fools when they brought it up during the aftermath of the Maersk Alabama incident.

The German language sees your ſ and raises you ß (ß = ſ + s)

UNC_Samurai: Wellon Dowd: As for the naming of ships, that needs to be cleaned up but not because of the Chavez. Congress constantly pressures the Navy to name ships one thing or other. It should be either an internal Navy decision or an independent commission of some kind. Hell, there is a ship named after the guy from Friends (new window)

My favorite of these is the USS Halyburton (FFG-40). I'm a hardcore liberal, but I loved making idiot hippies look like fools when they brought it up during the aftermath of the Maersk Alabama incident.

Holy non-denominational winter holiday, how did I never hear about that one before? Perhaps the government should sell the naming rights to Navy ships. That would close part of the budget gap.

USS UFIA

Wellon Dowd: As for the naming of ships, that needs to be cleaned up but not because of the Chavez. Congress constantly pressures the Navy to name ships one thing or other. It should be either an internal Navy decision or an independent commission of some kind. Hell, there is a ship named after the guy from Friends (new window)

Shouldn't a ship named Matthew Perry be a wooden vessel?

suck that!!

/did it work??

Bomb Head Mohammed: Wow. This article combines wrap-yourself-in-the-flag-military-cawk-suck with joo-boy political correctness. head asplode.

Yeah, that's Blaine Leutkemeyer for you. He's just some rich asshole who bought himself a congressional seat in BFE, Missouri. They bent over backwards gerrymandering the state last year so he'd stay in office once 2012 rolls around.

/Blunt can sick a duck, too
//Abramoff-blowing asshole

On my big list of important things somehow "remains" are almost at the bottom

Rather than address anything that affects the economy or something substantial, Congress is worried about naming ships. Must be re-election time!

They've been dead over 200 years, so it's not going to matter to them, or to their immediate families.

This is just another stupid way for government officials to find excuses to move money around so that they and their friends can make money.

That's just how we write S's, you ƒtupid ƒitheads.

/Bite my shiny metal aƒƒ

So let me get this right:

1. The ship was destroyed as part of a naval action where the ship was loaded up with explosives and the crew attempted to blow the ship up while in the midst of a fleet of enemy ships. The ship was blown to fist sized chunks before completing its mission.
2. The dead sailors that were recovered from the sea were buried and have been there for the last 200 years. The navy has stated that they have no interest in digging up the sailors and transferring them back to the states so they can be reburied.
3. Any thing else left in the sea will have been eaten or destroyed in the mean time.

What are we spending our money on?

Elfich: So let me get this right:

1. The ship was destroyed as part of a naval action where the ship was loaded up with explosives and the crew attempted to blow the ship up while in the midst of a fleet of enemy ships. The ship was blown to fist sized chunks before completing its mission.
2. The dead sailors that were recovered from the sea were buried and have been there for the last 200 years. The navy has stated that they have no interest in digging up the sailors and transferring them back to the states so they can be reburied.
3. Any thing else left in the sea will have been eaten or destroyed in the mean time.

What are we spending our money on?

Freedom!

Before the peace-pipe smoking hippies make a threadjack, the USS Halyburton (not even the same spelling as the company) was named for this guy. He was kind of a big deal with the Marines, many of whom came home because of him.

Really? None of you get it? Subby was referencing this Stan Freberg routine:

Clicky Clicky

mekkab: /The long ſ muſt never be uſed at the End of a Word, nor immediately after the short s.

That rule was obſerved about as ſtrictly as any other 18th-century ſpelling rule.

/pray do not shiat your pants

Ahem. Pray do not ſhiat your pants, that is.

Oh, ſark ſilter. You ſuck. (And if that comes out as "you fark," well, hats off.)

Nice jorb, subby... I fnickered, myself.

Naval tradition would argue against the recovery or transfer of remains in this case... it just isn't done except in very extreme circumstances.

This is just political grandstanding, plain and simple.

Maud Dib: mbillips: Here's background on this (new window). Five of the Marines are interred in the Protestant cemetery in Tripoli. The Navy doesn't want to bring them back to the states, because why disturb their eternal rest? What are we gonna do, dig up all the soldiers from cemeteries in France?

Yea, but that's the Navy, we're talking about the Marine Core here. Never leave a man behind.
Semper Fib!!!



\can't believe I'm the firft.
\\flafhies!

The Marine Corps is part of the Department of the Navy, just like the Supply Corps, Medical Corps, etc.

ObscureNameHere: How to make the kids laugh too loud at the museum: Read any info boads on the wall using the long-S as what it looks like -- a modern, slightly screwy 'f'.

"Greetings from her Majefty the Queen...."

I have a reproduction of the original Encyclopedia Britannica (all the world's knowledge in three handy volumes). In the astronomy section, it makes reference to "...the fun in the center of the folar fyftem."

semiotix: Ahem. Pray do not ſhiat your pants, that is.

Oh, ſark ſilter. You ſuck. (And if that comes out as "you fark," well, hats off.)

This is not a bookmark for copy-paste of ſ when I feel bypassing the ſark ſilter

/Hate that ſucking ſilter

It's not news, It's Farke.

Whenever I see a "long s", the natural tendency for my brain is to pronounce it, in my head, as a lisped 's'.

Imagine Barney Frank reading the headline and you'll see what I mean...