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Title: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: jimmy olsen on November 11, 2011, 12:27:24 AM
 :yuk:
Name it after a WWII carrier, battle or admiral.

http://hamptonroads.com/2011/05/navys-next-carrier-be-named-after-jfk
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Siege on November 11, 2011, 01:10:12 AM
Please.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: CountDeMoney on November 11, 2011, 07:21:30 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 11, 2011, 12:27:24 AM
:yuk:
Name it after a WWII carrier, battle or admiral.

Fuck you, you filthy fucking crip.  At least he's a dead president, which beats the last two carrier names--only one of which actually served in the fucking Navy.  So go fuck yourself.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: grumbler on November 11, 2011, 07:33:58 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 11, 2011, 12:27:24 AM
:yuk:
Name it after a WWII carrier, battle or admiral.

http://hamptonroads.com/2011/05/navys-next-carrier-be-named-after-jfk
:lol:  I guess you haven't been paying attention; the USN hasn't been naming carriers for previous carriers, battles, or admirals for quite some time.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Neil on November 11, 2011, 08:28:27 AM
Indeed.  These days, the new ones are all presidents, all the time.  No more Carl Vinsons, no more Nimitzs.  The only chance for a break is after Enterprise is retired, they might replace it with another Enterprise at some point.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Valmy on November 11, 2011, 08:38:10 AM
Sorry Tim all CVs are named after Presidents.  Which is good because we hardly ever name anything after Presidents in this country.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Viking on November 11, 2011, 08:52:46 AM
Quote from: Valmy on November 11, 2011, 08:38:10 AM
Sorry Tim all CVs are named after Presidents.  Which is good because we hardly ever name anything after Presidents in this country.

I suggest every time the Republicans get to name something after Regan democrats get to name something after JFK.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: FunkMonk on November 11, 2011, 09:11:19 AM
USS Barack Hussein Obama   :showoff:
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Razgovory on November 11, 2011, 09:12:20 AM
Quote from: Viking on November 11, 2011, 08:52:46 AM
Quote from: Valmy on November 11, 2011, 08:38:10 AM
Sorry Tim all CVs are named after Presidents.  Which is good because we hardly ever name anything after Presidents in this country.

I suggest every time the Republicans get to name something after Regan democrats get to name something after JFK.

Seems fair.  The two men were fairly similar.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Viking on November 11, 2011, 09:16:48 AM
Quote from: FunkMonk on November 11, 2011, 09:11:19 AM
USS Barack Hussein Obama   :showoff:

All Republican canidadates for President promised, on day one, to comission this boat

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fkzconcepts.files.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2Fcgboat.jpg%3Fw%3D399%26amp%3Bh%3D237&hash=6f3db65211dc7c48db2147e0ca6663a74a951e6a)

as the USCG B.H. Obama
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Berkut on November 11, 2011, 09:21:10 AM
I don't care about naming them after Presidents, but why name another one after Kennedy?

How about the USS Abraham Lincoln, or USS John Adams or even Thomas Jefferson?
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Razgovory on November 11, 2011, 09:22:11 AM
Quote from: Berkut on November 11, 2011, 09:21:10 AM
I don't care about naming them after Presidents, but why name another one after Kennedy?

How about the USS Abraham Lincoln, or USS John Adams or even Thomas Jefferson?

Well Kennedy was in the navy.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: FunkMonk on November 11, 2011, 09:22:46 AM
USS James Buchanan  :)
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Viking on November 11, 2011, 09:28:45 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 11, 2011, 09:22:11 AM
Quote from: Berkut on November 11, 2011, 09:21:10 AM
I don't care about naming them after Presidents, but why name another one after Kennedy?

How about the USS Abraham Lincoln, or USS John Adams or even Thomas Jefferson?

Well Kennedy was in the navy.

Jefferson founded the Navy (much against his own best judgement though...)
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Neil on November 11, 2011, 09:37:29 AM
Quote from: Berkut on November 11, 2011, 09:21:10 AM
I don't care about naming them after Presidents, but why name another one after Kennedy?

How about the USS Abraham Lincoln, or USS John Adams or even Thomas Jefferson?
Why have 2 USS Lincolns?
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: PDH on November 11, 2011, 09:40:03 AM
USS James K. Polk.

We could use it to beat up on the Mexicans.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Ed Anger on November 11, 2011, 09:57:37 AM
I'd like the Teddy R to bomb Tim.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Viking on November 11, 2011, 10:04:16 AM
Quote from: Neil on November 11, 2011, 09:37:29 AM
Quote from: Berkut on November 11, 2011, 09:21:10 AM
I don't care about naming them after Presidents, but why name another one after Kennedy?

How about the USS Abraham Lincoln, or USS John Adams or even Thomas Jefferson?
Why have 2 USS Lincolns?

The south might rise again.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Sheilbh on November 11, 2011, 10:24:15 AM
Quote from: Berkut on November 11, 2011, 09:21:10 AM
I don't care about naming them after Presidents, but why name another one after Kennedy?
Possibly fiftieth anniversary of his Presidency?

But I agree.  I'd also suggest not naming anything after anyone until they've been dead for at least 100 years.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: grumbler on November 11, 2011, 10:29:11 AM
Quote from: Berkut on November 11, 2011, 09:21:10 AM
I don't care about naming them after Presidents, but why name another one after Kennedy?

How about the USS Abraham Lincoln, or USS John Adams or even Thomas Jefferson?
:lol: USS Abraham Lincoln is CVN-72.

TJ and JA were boomers.  Those names are available now.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Malthus on November 11, 2011, 10:32:25 AM
They could name the naval brothel ship the "USS Clinton".

Don't tell me the navy lacks brothel ships ...  :(
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: grumbler on November 11, 2011, 10:35:35 AM
Quote from: Malthus on November 11, 2011, 10:32:25 AM
They could name the naval brothel ship the "USS Clinton".

Don't tell me the navy lacks brothel ships ...  :(
Don't know whether the RCN has one or not (it is the RCN again, isn't it?).
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Neil on November 11, 2011, 10:38:27 AM
It's the RCN, and we name our carriers after...
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Malthus on November 11, 2011, 10:40:25 AM
Quote from: grumbler on November 11, 2011, 10:35:35 AM
Don't know whether the RCN has one or not (it is the RCN again, isn't it?).

Probably have to make do with the back of a Sea King helicopter. It's always in the shop for repairs, alas.  ;)

What we as a country really lack, is Prime Ministers with truly entertaining sex scandals to name it after ...
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: MadImmortalMan on November 11, 2011, 11:53:42 AM
Quote from: FunkMonk on November 11, 2011, 09:11:19 AM
USS Barack Hussein Obama   :showoff:


Rename the Stennis. That guy was never president.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Valmy on November 11, 2011, 12:26:31 PM
Quote from: Malthus on November 11, 2011, 10:40:25 AM
What we as a country really lack, is Prime Ministers with truly entertaining sex scandals to name it after ...

Is there anymore dramatic evidence of the cultural difference between French Canadians and the French?
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Malthus on November 11, 2011, 12:32:03 PM
Quote from: Valmy on November 11, 2011, 12:26:31 PM
Quote from: Malthus on November 11, 2011, 10:40:25 AM
What we as a country really lack, is Prime Ministers with truly entertaining sex scandals to name it after ...

Is there anymore dramatic evidence of the cultural difference between French Canadians and the French?

I don't thing the French are actually capable of a sex scandal. To be a scandal, someone has to be scandalized.  ;)
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Viking on November 11, 2011, 12:41:56 PM
Quote from: Neil on November 11, 2011, 10:38:27 AM
It's the RCN, and we name our carriers after...

Whatever the RN named it after before they decide the ship is obsolete and sell it to the RCN for a pittance?
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Viking on November 11, 2011, 12:44:24 PM
Quote from: Malthus on November 11, 2011, 10:32:25 AM
They could name the naval brothel ship the "USS Clinton".

Don't tell me the navy lacks brothel ships ...  :(

This calls for a seamen/semen joke referring to the phallic shape of the Virignia Class submarine and it's ability to disgorge semen through a hole (torpedo tube) in it's front.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: The Brain on November 11, 2011, 12:47:18 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 11, 2011, 12:44:24 PM
Quote from: Malthus on November 11, 2011, 10:32:25 AM
They could name the naval brothel ship the "USS Clinton".

Don't tell me the navy lacks brothel ships ...  :(

This calls for a seamen/semen joke referring to the phallic shape of the Virignia Class submarine and it's ability to disgorge semen through a hole (torpedo tube) in it's front.

Elaborate.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Admiral Yi on November 11, 2011, 01:26:47 PM
Yeah, I'm dying to hear how it turns out. :)
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Valmy on November 11, 2011, 01:34:36 PM
Quote from: Malthus on November 11, 2011, 12:32:03 PM
I don't thing the French are actually capable of a sex scandal. To be a scandal, someone has to be scandalized.  ;)

I guess if Louis XV didn't scandalize you nothing will.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Viking on November 11, 2011, 01:52:41 PM
A boy whale and a girl whale decided to do something about the whaling ship. So both of them swim under the ship and both blow the air through their blowholes sinking the ship. As the ship sinks the men on board jump in the water trying to get off the sinking ships. The boy whale then says to the girl whale, lets eat the whalers! The girl whale replies, I agreed to the blowjob but I never agreed to swallow seamen.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: The Minsky Moment on November 11, 2011, 02:06:46 PM
Quote from: grumbler on November 11, 2011, 10:29:11 AM
TJ and JA were boomers.  Those names are available now.

No doubt Jefferson's fondest dream was that someday in the future his name would grace an underwater platform of nuclear devastation, controlled and directed by a vast federal bureaucracy.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Neil on November 11, 2011, 02:24:42 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 11, 2011, 02:06:46 PM
Quote from: grumbler on November 11, 2011, 10:29:11 AM
TJ and JA were boomers.  Those names are available now.
No doubt Jefferson's fondest dream was that someday in the future his name would grace an underwater platform of nuclear devastation, controlled and directed by a vast federal bureaucracy.
To be fair, if Jefferson was alive today, he'd make Ron Paul look life a Great Society type.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Barrister on November 11, 2011, 02:36:50 PM
Quote from: Neil on November 11, 2011, 10:38:27 AM
It's the RCN, and we name our carriers after...

Of the 3 carriers in the RCN, two kept the British names (HMCS Warrior and HMCS Magnificent) and the third was named after Bonaventure Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: The Brain on November 11, 2011, 02:54:27 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 11, 2011, 01:52:41 PM
A boy whale and a girl whale decided to do something about the whaling ship. So both of them swim under the ship and both blow the air through their blowholes sinking the ship. As the ship sinks the men on board jump in the water trying to get off the sinking ships. The boy whale then says to the girl whale, lets eat the whalers! The girl whale replies, I agreed to the blowjob but I never agreed to swallow seamen.

I don't think the joke works in Whale.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Warspite on November 11, 2011, 03:53:12 PM
To think that the USN used to have such good ship names. :(

The Royal Navy doesn't have many good ship names, either, but due to an entirely different problem: it doesn't have many ships any more.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Razgovory on November 11, 2011, 04:44:24 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 11, 2011, 02:06:46 PM
Quote from: grumbler on November 11, 2011, 10:29:11 AM
TJ and JA were boomers.  Those names are available now.

No doubt Jefferson's fondest dream was that someday in the future his name would grace an underwater platform of nuclear devastation, controlled and directed by a vast federal bureaucracy.

That's my fondest dream.  Why should his be any different?
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Viking on November 11, 2011, 04:44:27 PM
Quote from: The Brain on November 11, 2011, 02:54:27 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 11, 2011, 01:52:41 PM
A boy whale and a girl whale decided to do something about the whaling ship. So both of them swim under the ship and both blow the air through their blowholes sinking the ship. As the ship sinks the men on board jump in the water trying to get off the sinking ships. The boy whale then says to the girl whale, lets eat the whalers! The girl whale replies, I agreed to the blowjob but I never agreed to swallow seamen.

I don't think the joke works in Whale.
dunno about Whale, I know it doesn't work is Welsh, the language of Wales.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Razgovory on November 11, 2011, 05:05:13 PM
Well some Wales speak Welsh, but those around Quebec are required to provide whale calls in French at request.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Neil on November 11, 2011, 05:56:04 PM
Quote from: Barrister on November 11, 2011, 02:36:50 PM
Quote from: Neil on November 11, 2011, 10:38:27 AM
It's the RCN, and we name our carriers after...
Of the 3 carriers in the RCN, two kept the British names (HMCS Warrior and HMCS Magnificent) and the third was named after Bonaventure Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The point was that there aren't any carriers in the RCN anymore, haven't been for 40 years and never will be again.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: sbr on November 11, 2011, 07:56:55 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 11, 2011, 09:28:45 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 11, 2011, 09:22:11 AM
Quote from: Berkut on November 11, 2011, 09:21:10 AM
I don't care about naming them after Presidents, but why name another one after Kennedy?

How about the USS Abraham Lincoln, or USS John Adams or even Thomas Jefferson?

Well Kennedy was in the navy.

Jefferson founded the Navy (much against his own best judgement though...)

:hmm:  What am I missing here?
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: jimmy olsen on November 12, 2011, 12:04:15 AM


Quote from: Viking on November 11, 2011, 09:28:45 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 11, 2011, 09:22:11 AM
Quote from: Berkut on November 11, 2011, 09:21:10 AM
I don't care about naming them after Presidents, but why name another one after Kennedy?

How about the USS Abraham Lincoln, or USS John Adams or even Thomas Jefferson?

Well Kennedy was in the navy.

Jefferson founded the Navy (much against his own best judgement though...)
:huh: I'm 100% sure that Adams founded the Navy.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: sbr on November 12, 2011, 01:21:57 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 12, 2011, 12:04:15 AM


Quote from: Viking on November 11, 2011, 09:28:45 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 11, 2011, 09:22:11 AM
Quote from: Berkut on November 11, 2011, 09:21:10 AM
I don't care about naming them after Presidents, but why name another one after Kennedy?

How about the USS Abraham Lincoln, or USS John Adams or even Thomas Jefferson?

Well Kennedy was in the navy.

Jefferson founded the Navy (much against his own best judgement though...)
:huh: I'm 100% sure that Adams founded the Navy.

That was my thought too but now I'm not too sure about that either. 

Of course there was the Continental Navy, which obviously predates any President.  It seems that the first 6 frigates were ordered by Congress during Washington's second term. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_navy#From_reestablishment_to_the_Civil_War)  Adams definitely expanded the navy during his term and President Jefferson overcame his dislike of the Navy to use it against the Barbary pirates.

Anyone out there more knowledgeable than me (not that that's saying a lot) have an answer?
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Razgovory on November 12, 2011, 07:55:10 AM
It would be odd if the Marine Corps predated the Navy for a few decades.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Ideologue on November 12, 2011, 08:40:53 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 11, 2011, 02:06:46 PM
Quote from: grumbler on November 11, 2011, 10:29:11 AM
TJ and JA were boomers.  Those names are available now.

No doubt Jefferson's fondest dream was that someday in the future his name would grace an underwater platform of nuclear devastation, controlled and directed by a vast federal bureaucracy.

Indeed.  Should have been named after someone not monstrous, like Alexander Hamilton.

...Oh.  They did that.  An SSBN, too.

Well, John Jay, I guess.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Viking on November 12, 2011, 08:58:18 AM
SSBN Curtis LeMay
SSNB Arthur Harris
SSBN Enola Gay
and finally
SSBN Bockscar

Just in case anybody thinks there are better names for boomers.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Ideologue on November 12, 2011, 09:31:10 AM
I'm conflicted about that.

And LeMay is tainted by his association with Governor Wheels.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Neil on November 12, 2011, 10:06:58 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 12, 2011, 08:40:53 AM
Should have been named after someone not monstrous, like Alexander Hamilton.
They're all traitors.  All of them are monstrous.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Viking on November 12, 2011, 11:25:48 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 12, 2011, 09:31:10 AM
I'm conflicted about that.

And LeMay is tainted by his association with Governor Wheels.

SSBN Hulagu Khan
SSBN Alaric

Governor Wheels and LeMay? You'r gonna have to explain that one to me. 
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Razgovory on November 12, 2011, 11:36:10 AM
George Wallace.  Segregationist Gov. who ran for Prez on the American Independent party ticket (now the Constitution party).  Was shot, and paralyzed.  Spent the rest of his life in a wheel chair.  LeMay was his VP pick.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Viking on November 12, 2011, 07:55:09 PM
how do you get from Wallace to Wheel?
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Admiral Yi on November 12, 2011, 07:58:09 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 12, 2011, 07:55:09 PM
how do you get from Wallace to Wheel?

Wheelchair.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Viking on November 12, 2011, 08:00:29 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 12, 2011, 07:58:09 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 12, 2011, 07:55:09 PM
how do you get from Wallace to Wheel?

Wheelchair.

ah... It all makes sense now.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Razgovory on November 12, 2011, 08:07:19 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 12, 2011, 07:58:09 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 12, 2011, 07:55:09 PM
how do you get from Wallace to Wheel?

Wheelchair.

You really have to spell it out for some people.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Ideologue on November 12, 2011, 08:51:03 PM
Jeez.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Drakken on November 12, 2011, 08:54:49 PM
Quote from: PDH on November 11, 2011, 09:40:03 AM
USS James K. Polk.

We could use it to beat up on the Mexicans.

USS Millard Fillmore is more badass.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Razgovory on November 12, 2011, 09:22:51 PM
Why?
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Ideologue on November 12, 2011, 09:59:03 PM
A good porno name would be Fillmore Butts.
Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: Siege on November 13, 2011, 01:22:03 AM
USS Siegebreaker sounds cool, doesn't it?

Title: Re: JFK to have another carrier named after him
Post by: sbr on November 13, 2011, 01:24:19 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 12, 2011, 09:59:03 PM
A good porno name would be Fillmore Butts.

Buck Naked.