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jberryhill

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9. Incidentally...

Reply to A HERETIC I AM (Reply #5)

Tue Sep 15, 2015, 01:01 PM

Sep 2015

You see that gun Cher's got her crotch on?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion

The USS Iowa turret explosion occurred in the Number Two 16-inch gun turret of the United States Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) on 19 April 1989. The explosion in the center gun room killed 47 of the turret's crewmen and severely damaged the gun turret itself.

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Contact Pacific Battleship Center. Trump must not step foot on USS IOWA [View all] maxrandb Sep 2015 OP

This best way Ichigo Kurosaki Sep 2015 #1

Yes maxrandb Sep 2015 #2

It should be off limits for political purposes left-of-center2012 Sep 2015 #3

It's owned by a private charity jberryhill Sep 2015 #4

The website you linked says they OPERATE it, not own it A HERETIC I AM Sep 2015 #5

...thus making the imposition of content restrictions more problematic jberryhill Sep 2015 #7

Incidentally... jberryhill Sep 2015 #9

Snort. lonestarnot Sep 2015 #13

Well I didn't mean it to be at all funny jberryhill Sep 2015 #14

Doesn't matter how you intended it. As soon as you posted it, it became mine to read and interpret. lonestarnot Sep 2015 #15

Last time I did that, she got a restraining order jberryhill Sep 2015 #16

LOL lonestarnot Sep 2015 #17

She filmed that on the Missouri, not the Iowa muriel_volestrangler Sep 2015 #18

That's really weird... the Iowa museum lists her video as a screen credit jberryhill Sep 2015 #19

There's a sneaky 'or' for their list: muriel_volestrangler Sep 2015 #20

I caught that on double-checking. That's shamefully deceptive. jberryhill Sep 2015 #22

Like the guns on HMS Belfast, moored in central London, target a motorway service station muriel_volestrangler Sep 2015 #24

I'm sure she can still motivate the seamen to change the elevation jberryhill Sep 2015 #25

Nope. Not going to go there. pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #26

Well, Friday night is a few days from now jberryhill Sep 2015 #27

Some of us don't wait 'til Friday, but we still have our standards pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #29

"Nobody died at war in order to hold the Katzenberg bar mitzvah on the foredeck" pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #21

I remember that incident very clearly. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2015 #33

I was simply delighted to find the Cher video jberryhill Sep 2015 #34

I remember when the video came out too! A HERETIC I AM Sep 2015 #35

That's a Ichigo Kurosaki Sep 2015 #6

It looks like they allow all jberryhill Sep 2015 #8

Museum ships can be incredibly expensive to maintain and I would imagine that the organization is... JVS Sep 2015 #10

The Battleship New Jersey is an enormous white elephant jberryhill Sep 2015 #11

During the papal visit to Philadelphia they're renting out bunks on the ship for $75/night JVS Sep 2015 #31

Allah be praised! jberryhill Sep 2015 #32

The dreadnought Texas just completed $20m of repair, about to start on $25m Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #28

Which is sad given her history.. EX500rider Sep 2015 #30

Praising a retired and obsolete warship and calling it national security MohRokTah Sep 2015 #12

He should get one of those big "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE" banners that W used jberryhill Sep 2015 #23

great ship. I visited it a few weeks ago Liberal_in_LA Sep 2015 #36