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    Iowa battleships

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     Adding on, this is from an internet search illustrating the Yamato has a similar nostalgic pull in modern culture as the Iowas.
     
    “The battleship Yamato remains a potent cultural symbol in modern Japan, representing national pride, technological prowess, hubris, and tragic sacrifice, appearing in films (like Otoko-tachi no Yamato), anime (Space Battleship Yamato), manga, and museums, often as a metaphor for Japan's wartime experience, its idealized spirit (Yamato Damashii), and the human cost of war, embodying the Japanese cultural theme of "nobility in failure". 
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    Iowa battleships

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    12 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

    I can't believe that the navy would give any more than lipservice to building a class of ships designed by a real estate dealer.

    I think that’s exactly what they’re giving it and little more. 

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    Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes

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    29 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

    In earlier days, in a major city, I was a regular at a pretty high end Sushi Bar.  When you were a regular, the chef would try to give you something "New" to you every time.  At the bar, one time, the chef gave me something that was in the category of "I can get this gaijin to eat anything".  Happenstance there was a Japanese businessman at the bar - he complained about not getting any.  When it was served, he took one bite and wiped his chopsticks on his napkin - an insult of considerable degree.  Just eat things that taste good!

    NYC?

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    Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes

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    6 minutes ago, Texas Joker said:

    See it's a play on words cause

     

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    Even though canoes is spelled the same

    Thanks, Alpo already explained it to me

     

    “Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.”

    E.B. White

     

    I think this joke may have been DOA. 😁

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    Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes

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    10 hours ago, Alpo said:

    Have you seen the pilot? Not only was this a different Mrs Munster, but Herman was different. Same guy - Fred Gwynne - but he was not the big goofy guy that he was in the series. You know when he would kiss Lily, she would turn her face and offer her cheek and he would bend down and just put a little peck on her cheek. Phoebe - he gave her a lip lock. That was startling.

     

    Yup, I’ve seen it. Liked it better than the series. I read somewhere that the producers thought Joan looked too much like Carolyn Jones of the Addams Family and is why they went with Lily. 

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    Iowa battleships

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    1 minute ago, Rip Snorter said:

    Tehran - soon to be a ghost town.  They are nearly out of water.

    Saw that in the news. I’m betting what little water available will be diverted to the powers that be and the peasants will be required to die of thirst and crops will die for the good of the regime. 

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