11-04-2012, 11:05 PM
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Sing Blue Silver
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: CT
Posts: 2,117
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Quote:
Originally Posted by R Leo
HMS Battleaxe...my M-i-L. Yeah, great name/
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A line from chapter 32 in Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising" 
HMS Battleaxe was already out there, three miles ahead, a subtly different shade on her hull, and the White Ensign fluttering at her mast. A signal light started blinking at them.
WHAT THE DEVIL IS A REUBEN JAMES, Battleaxe wanted to know.
"How do you want to answer that, sir?" a signalman asked.
Morris laughed, the ominous spell broken. "Signal, 'At least we don't name warships for our mother-in-law.'"
"All right!" The petty officer loved it.
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