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		UK and U.S. submarines surface near North Pole for impromptu game of soccer (story.news.yahoo.com)		85
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The504		2004-04-19 10:15:00 AM

Whoever submitted this with the "You can't even tell the Firefox was there" headline... Bravo.

Teekno		2004-04-19 10:16:44 AM

They didn't play long... because it was so cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooold!

doccm9		2004-04-19 11:37:08 AM

teekno, then the "cool" tag is appropriate.

mryoop789		2004-04-19 01:07:01 PM

"mother of all snowball fights"?? Eeeeeeeew!

Kaka		2004-04-19 01:07:35 PM

Even Tom Clancy would not have thought of this.

Flyinglemur		2004-04-19 01:07:43 PM

Awesome...wish I was there. Oh wait, no I don't...its gorgeous in Groton today :)

/shoreduty

san_mal		2004-04-19 01:09:20 PM

Well if it was real football not american football I guess the score was something like 29-0 to the Brits.

Kaka		2004-04-19 01:09:33 PM

I guess my main question is that when one is packing for 6 continous months underwater - at what point does the thought "Hey! I should bring my soccer ball and my cleats!" cross one's mind?

mcsey		2004-04-19 01:10:03 PM

The US team is so gonna get their asses kicked in the footie match. /obvious

Cake Hunter		2004-04-19 01:10:29 PM

Was David Beckham, the great British African-American footballer, there? I hear he got caught having thingy with his wife in the Loo.

TheGoblinKing		2004-04-19 01:11:35 PM

I served onboard the carrier USS Enterprise. Part of me regrets I never volunteered for sub duty out of Nuke School when I read cool stuff like this.

But it is a very, very small part of me. It would've been cool for about a week, maybe more...

Dr.Anus		2004-04-19 01:12:11 PM

I got $5 on the Yanks ...

daevczen		2004-04-19 01:12:17 PM

tennis shoe commercial?

Steve Dallas		2004-04-19 01:12:31 PM

ARGH!!!!!! The504 beat me to the Firefox reference!

jiqueman		2004-04-19 01:12:41 PM

Whoever submitted the headline must have the Page-a-day 365 New Words calendar.

Zentelis		2004-04-19 01:12:50 PM

pshaw..that's nothing. We had the grand-father of all snow ball fights during the last blizzard. A good time was had by all

Lord Farkuaad		2004-04-19 01:13:16 PM

Impromptu? Where'd the soccer ball come from?

Stompn_Tom		2004-04-19 01:13:19 PM

HMD Tireless - lame

potato_chip_eating_geek		2004-04-19 01:13:24 PM

its called football. bloody yanks.

TrouserSnakeandLarry		2004-04-19 01:13:34 PM

They wanted to have the buttsex in a different sub...

skinink		2004-04-19 01:13:38 PM

Your tax dollars at work. Hey, shouldn't they be looking for Osama underneath some glacier instead ?

Radworld4		2004-04-19 01:14:02 PM

"Today we shhhhhail into hishtory...what do you mean they are playing shoccer?!"

-possibly the worst Connery imitation.

Lord Farkuaad		2004-04-19 01:15:12 PM

potato_chip_eating_geek

Are we at fark.co.uk? Didn't think so.

Radworld4		2004-04-19 01:17:04 PM

"Where'd the soccer ball come from?"

Isn't it standard issue for any any Brit sub? Lord knows they can't have a conversation without droning on about the wonder of soccer. Blah blah blah....wonk wonk wonk

TheGoblinKing		2004-04-19 01:18:31 PM

TrouserSnakeandlarry,

Hey guy, in the US, women are allowed to serve aboard Men-of-War now...some of the buttsex may be justified!

But are they allowed on sub's.....?

GoodyearPimp		2004-04-19 01:18:35 PM

Soccer trifecta, hallelujah! Now maybe we can stop hearing about it for a couple of days.

CruJones		2004-04-19 01:18:48 PM

Does this complete the TRIUMVIRATE?

Sqee		2004-04-19 01:19:27 PM

potato_chip_eating_geek Then shouldn't your name be potato_crisp_eating_geek?

buck69		2004-04-19 01:21:04 PM

--- and after everything is said and done, isn't fun the BEST thing to have?~

d23		2004-04-19 01:21:19 PM

The British football trifecta! Once again...

labberdasher		2004-04-19 01:23:00 PM

Sqeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

/sorry. I just had to say that.

Bill_Wick's_Friend		2004-04-19 01:24:42 PM

Whoever submitted the headline must have the Page-a-day 365 New Words calendar.

Oh, I concur.

legion_lives		2004-04-19 01:25:31 PM

$20 says the US team gets their asses handed to them...

Smarty-Britches		2004-04-19 01:26:43 PM

<insert gratuitous American Fark anti-soccer reference here>

Proof that Navy is teh ghey!

<Thank you. We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread>

FeedingThePony		2004-04-19 01:27:03 PM

Lord Farkuaad

Are we at fark.us? Didn't think so...

FLMountainMan		2004-04-19 01:27:17 PM

Charlize Theron - hottest African-American alive

palexc		2004-04-19 01:27:39 PM

Nice. Reallll nice. Leave 2 nuclear subs unattended to go throw snowballs, play soccer, and have anal sex in the snow.

StrikitRich		2004-04-19 01:27:58 PM

The504 - If it was mine that you saw, thanks. Don't know if anyone else had the same idea, though.

mryoop789		2004-04-19 01:27:59 PM

Is Fark a little farked today, or is it just me?

TheKidFromDeliverance		2004-04-19 01:29:25 PM

You just know that this is gonna be a movie in 16 months.

CrazyTalk		2004-04-19 01:29:29 PM

you sunk my battleship..hehehe

mryoop789,
its slow for me too. not only this site but the internet too. hmm...something's supsicious is goings on here

Confoundit		2004-04-19 01:30:24 PM

"I expect there will also be the mother of all snowball fights."

I hope this is less of a bloodbath than the cola wars.

von_etrigan		2004-04-19 01:30:53 PM

TheGoblinKing

But are they allowed on sub's.....?

No.

And Flyinglemur, a beautiful day in Groton? Surely you jest!

Groton - the only place that can make a sub seem cozy by comparison.

DanB		2004-04-19 01:31:37 PM

Sweet! I had Submarine Soccer on my parlay card!

TRIFECTA!!!

san_mal		2004-04-19 01:31:50 PM

TheKidFromDeliverance

Sort of like Mystery, Alaska with the Yanks playing the role of the plucky Alaskans.

TrouserSnakeandLarry		2004-04-19 01:32:21 PM

No offense to all you Navy folks that served on a sub and never had teh buttsex (snicker snicker), but the subs are full of flamers. They are in tight quarters, so the Navy only uses the smaller, wispy, frail, flexible, knobslobbing recruits.

Ahoy, mateys.

Alexis		2004-04-19 01:32:40 PM

mryoop789

Is Fark a little farked today, or is it just me?

Nope, it's not just you. I think Fark has a case of the Mondays. Or maybe there's just no news to report today.