E-WAY ILL-WAY OM-BAY EARL-PAY ARBOR-HAY

-Japan

/if only we had been able to decode their communications...

Yes, the circumstances of this incident are true. I think they should impeach Franklin Roosevelt.

Posthumously, of course...

props on the headline.

What would that feel like? To know your whole life that if someone just listened to you, one of the biggest events in the history of the US could've been averted.

Hello?...anyone?....damn you people *goes to get the bomb shield*

The funeral will probally be over before anyone other than those of us reading this article finds out about it.

big day for Florida headlines...

so if this guy would have spoken up, the movie Pearl Harbor would never have happened?

RIP, asshat.

/Kate Beckinsale is hot hot hot!

What would that feel like? To know your whole life that if someone just listened to you, one of the biggest events in the history of the US could've been averted?
Ask Hans Blix.

At his gravestone I will be sure to offer a suitably thoughtful hot cocoa sampler box.

It's sad that lives could have been saved that weren't, but keep in mind. For every George Elliott there's a hundred Chicken Littles.

Tora! Tora! Tora!

/kicks the pants off the craptacular CGI in Pearl Harbour.

wtf is with this "hot cocoa sampler box" crap i see in every single thread?

shader

if you dont know, then you're obviously not getting a hot cocoa sampler box for christmas!!!

it was from some thread a few days ago about shiatty boss-to-employee christmas presents. I don't know why the cocoa stuck out, or if it was the basis of the entire article, but it has since become an overused cliche.

my boss, however, went overboard. I received the new and improved INVISIBLE hot cocoa sampler box!

wtf is with this "hot cocoa sampler box" crap i see in every single thread?

Secret messages. What did you think that level 'orange' thing was all about anyway.

It's all Bush's fault.

RockisDead: It first appeared in the worst christmas gift thread.

Reminds me of Independence Day.

What would that feel like? To know your whole life that if someone just listened to you, one of the biggest events in the history of the US could've been averted?

Ask Hans Blix.

Yeah because he's did a bang up job in charge of Unmovic.."No problem sir, You want us to come back in a few days or just wait here while you guys pack up and move shiat out of this factory before we inspect it?" He also did a fantastic job when he was the director of the IAEA, you know the people in charge of overseeing inspections of the country's nuclear program.. but where somehow shocked when it was discovered in 91 Iraq had developed a nuclear program. Yeah nothing gets by that guy.

This may be the first ever thread where a post of Ackbar saying his thing is actually appropriate. I sure ain't gonna do it, though.


Oh, and Tsunami Pearl Necklace, beautiful!

Ishkur - /obscure reference except to eng lit geeks

Yep, I got it... :)

aargh fark this guy, british intelligence warned the US about pearl harbour months before it happened, but would you listen.

aargh fark this guy, british intelligence warned the US about pearl harbour months before it happened, but would you listen.

and since they spelled it with that silly "u" in there, we thought it was a prank.

??

He died days before the largest terror attack on US Soil.. Maybe his death means something... Be afraid, be very afraid.

Well, this is not the first time in history someone could have deverted a major catastrophe.

Case in point...

Titanic
If only the guy on watch would have quit watching Jack and Rose kiss on the deck and start doing his job he would have seen the iceberg in time to save the ship.

Ishkur, technicolor-misfit - /obscure reference except to eng lit geeks

One "t".

Pearl Harbor was not a terrorist attack, it was an act of war.

Is there a website taking bets on which US city will be hit next?

2003-12-24 04:22:33 AM Car_Ramrod
but, of course, in that version of history, the movie "Pearl Harbor" would not exist. so I guess they should've listened to him anyways.

I hope I live to see Michael Bay Jr.'s "WTC", a three-hour epic that begins with two lovers at the twin towers when they get hit (complete with special effects shots from the impact) and ends with, oh, a couple hundred MOABs falling on some desert (or maybe some event that hasn't even happened yet).

Tasteless? Right now, sure. But in 50 years or so, this will be a movie, I guarantee.

Go Blue:

My boss went over the top as well: A stealth hot cocoa sampler box -- the gift does not show up on the recipient's radar or desk or in his or her cubicle.

ElwoodCuse

Hate to say it but that's exactly what I was thinking. I'm sure when we are all in our 70's we will have to go watch some love story about the 9/11 events.

Well maybe no one listened because Middlemarch is such a farking long read.
Keep it short and sweet, baby!

Before this thread goes out of hand everyone check out

"day of Deceit" by Robert Stinnett it will show you absolute proof that we knew about Pearl Harbour before it was going to happen and that FDR put into place 8 key actions that McCullum gave him in order to piss off Japan.

another lost from the great generation

Anyone have a time machine they can use to go into the past?

nope? Oh, I guess it's all pointless then..

I'm reading Cryptonomicon right now, which makes me wonder... If we did indeed know Pearl Harbor was about to be attacked, would it have been the wise thing to stop it? The Japanese would have known then that we could read their communications.

Okay, so Pearl Harbor is not a good example, because it was detected by radar, not by intercepted code.

Oh yeah, and Silas Marner was shorter than Middlemarch, although no easier to slog through.

Here's the guy who said, "Don't worry about it."

"I haven't been this relaxed since I was watch commander at Pearl Harbor."

-Abe Simpson

Takeo Yoshikawa surrenders.

if people had listened to churchill and his warnings of hitler things could've been very different too. what a wacky time WWII was...

OK, I'll do it.

IT'S A TRAP!!!