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2004-06-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Mark O 2004-06-11 2:34:24 AM|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yeah, but can you use it to waterski?

Besides isn't a carrier a sitting target without an escort / screen?

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-06-11 3:58:44 PM|| 2004-06-11 3:58:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 It figures that people who support torture would be calling for castigation. That's just sick - get rid them by eliminating the next generation. That's ethic cleansing if I ever heard it, and Bush is probably for it too.

Posted by Jennifer 2004-06-11 4:53:06 PM|| 2004-06-11 4:53:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Jennifer, What the HELL are you blathering about?

Did you forget to take your meds again?

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-06-11 4:57:04 PM|| 2004-06-11 4:57:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Troll who's unentertaining, illogical, OT, and just plain stupid, must be a Kerry OperativeÂ©

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-11 4:58:17 PM|| 2004-06-11 4:58:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep Jennifer, I see what you mean and that is awful. Castigation is what we do with child molesters in Texas. It does take care of the next generation.

Posted by Jake 2004-06-11 5:11:26 PM|| 2004-06-11 5:11:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Well its not funny.

Posted by Jennifer 2004-06-11 5:12:20 PM|| 2004-06-11 5:12:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Jennifer are you castigating castrators? Why? And what the hell does that have to do with an old aircraft carrier on the auction block? You make less sense every day, girl. BTW what is that you're smoking?

Posted by GK 2004-06-11 5:38:19 PM|| 2004-06-11 5:38:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 big ol' ceegar of stupid, apparently

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-11 5:39:01 PM|| 2004-06-11 5:39:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 "Why simply verbally castigate the various sundry asshats . . ."

I didn't bring it up - I was just commenting that its awful, and that Bush probably supports it too. You people are all alike - torture is ok, castigating is ok, and you think it is funny. I bet Bush passed the law that allows them to do it to child molesters in Texas.

Posted by Jennifer 2004-06-11 5:46:55 PM|| 2004-06-11 5:46:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Well...when I was young I didn't appreciate castigation at the hands of my parents. But now that I'm a parent myself, I can see how it is actually a positive thing. Bush is a parent too...I'm sure he approves of castigation.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-06-11 5:50:39 PM|| 2004-06-11 5:50:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Torture them, castigate them, but whatever you do, don't humiliate them.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-11 5:50:48 PM|| 2004-06-11 5:50:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I think they only do chemical castigation of child molesters in Texas.

Posted by Carlos 2004-06-11 5:57:05 PM|| 2004-06-11 5:57:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Hint for Jennifer: I dont think castigation means what you think it means: (I think you mean castration which is the removal of ...).

From Dictionary .com :
casÂ·tiÂ·gate ( P )
tr.v. casÂ·tiÂ·gatÂ·ed, casÂ·tiÂ·gatÂ·ing, casÂ·tiÂ·gates

1. To inflict severe punishment on. See Synonyms at punish.
2. To criticize severely.

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castigation

Cas`ti*ga"tion, n. [L. catigatio.] 1. Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.

The keenest castigation of her slanderers. --W. Irving.

2. Emendation; correction. [Obs.]

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castigation

n 1: a severe scolding [syn: earful, bawling out, chewing out, upbraiding, going-over, dressing down] 2: verbal punishment [syn: chastisement]

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-06-11 5:57:46 PM|| 2004-06-11 5:57:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 No, Jennifer, you did bring it up, what Mark suggested was using an old war vessel instead of mere criticism.
Castigate: to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism
What you believed he said was removing someone's reproductive capability.
castrate 1 a : to deprive of the testes : GELD b : to deprive of the ovaries : SPAY
There's a big difference. If you cannot afford a dictionary, there are some good ones on line.
e.g. http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
Go play somewhere else, kid.

Posted by GK 2004-06-11 5:58:41 PM|| 2004-06-11 5:58:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 OK - my mistake. Bush may or may not be in favor of castration. But he is in favor of torture.

Posted by Jennifer 2004-06-11 6:06:56 PM|| 2004-06-11 6:06:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 heh heh..that was a fun one. Jennifer, I'll splain it so you can understand: Bush is sooooooo not in favor of torture. No backs.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-06-11 6:10:03 PM|| 2004-06-11 6:10:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Hint for Jennifer: I dont think castigation means what you think it means..

HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAHAHAAAA!!!!

Graduate from school yet?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-11 6:10:15 PM|| 2004-06-11 6:10:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Jennifer, expect that some day soon you'll have an old aircraft carrier parked at your doorstep with the words SS Rantburg painted on the bow.

Posted by GK 2004-06-11 6:19:42 PM|| 2004-06-11 6:19:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Didn't know you had a "Bizarro World" page, Fred.
What the hell is this broad talking about?

Posted by tu3031 2004-06-11 6:22:09 PM|| 2004-06-11 6:22:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Omigod Jennifer:

I thought you were just being clever!

lol !!

I was jokingly suggesting that instead of casting verbal frowns at people, we should pool some cash and put a carrier on the doorstep of the world's loonies.

(oops, should I have used the word "casting" up above?)

Damn... sometimes I'm too clever by a half :)

rofl !!

Posted by Mark O 2004-06-11 8:14:51 PM|| 2004-06-11 8:14:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Why buy this thing when we could get a decent used Whiskey Class submarine for $497,000.000? Hell, my house is almost worth that much!

http://www.b-americanboats.com/whiskeysub.html

Posted by Secret Master 2004-06-11 8:55:28 PM|| 2004-06-11 8:55:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 On a serious note, if you look at the various pictures at that page, you'll find some military aircraft included in the photos, with associated insignia.

I'm curious about whose Navy this ship is being scrapped from. My first thought was perhaps Pakistan. Can anyone identify the insignia on the aircraft in the photos on the site?

Mark O

Posted by Mark O 2004-06-11 9:07:15 PM|| 2004-06-11 9:07:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Castigation of asshats is not only legal, it is protected by the First Amendment.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-06-11 9:15:41 PM|| 2004-06-11 9:15:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Mastication of asshats, on the other hand, is not only illegal (unless they consent) but disgusting and unhealthy.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-06-11 9:17:05 PM|| 2004-06-11 9:17:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 An Emily Lutela moment, Jennifer. People who make such errors should be censured.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-06-11 9:17:56 PM|| 2004-06-11 9:17:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Mark, this is the ex-Brazilian aircraft carrier Minas Gerais (note hull # A-11). Contrary to the ad, she has been out of service for almost 3 years. The ship is the former HMS Vengeance, completed late in WW2 and sold to Brazil in 1956 after an extensive modernization. She could operate A-4 Skyhawks, but usually served as an anti-submarine carrier with S-2 Trackers and various helicopters. Her catapults were repaired during the 1998 refit and the A-4s made a few flights from her deck before her replacement by the ex-French Foch, modernized and recommissioned as Sao Paulo.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-06-11 9:36:03 PM|| 2004-06-11 9:36:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 Oh, only operates A-4 Skyhawks ?

Fergeddit, no longer interested in this lemon.

Posted by Carl in N.H. 2004-06-11 10:08:29 PM|| 2004-06-11 10:08:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 Obviously, Harriers could operate from this ship as well and actually did so during Unitas exercises in the 80s and 90s.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-06-11 10:28:52 PM|| 2004-06-11 10:28:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 Okay, AC, if they throw a coupla Harriers in, we'll keep talking to them...

Posted by Carl in N.H. 2004-06-11 10:29:58 PM|| 2004-06-11 10:29:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 Mark, this is the ex-Brazilian aircraft carrier Minas Gerais (note hull # A-11).

What's the condition of her sister ships Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul?

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