Posted on 07/28/2016 12:39:41 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
The Navy is set to name a ship after the gay rights icon and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, according to a Congressional notification obtained by USNI News.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...
According to the old tradition, George H W Bush would have been the name of a destroyer or frigate. The same for Gerald Ford. They had both served in the Navy during WWII.
Let me try this again. I did not mean that the show is not satire, rather that it does not satire the essence of the title character in the same way. Austin Powers takes satire to an absurd level by presenting the title character as an incompetent boob who nonetheless holds the position of super slueth. He only completes his mission by the work of others or by sheer luck.
I don’t see the title character of How I Met Your Mother being equally inept at seducing women. Am I wrong? Does he stumble and bumble his way into bed with the ladies?
Jason Stratham satirized his usual role at the tough guy in the film Spy. Ted Knight satirized the pompous news anchor in The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Casting Harris in this role seems like having Don Knotts playing Captain Kirk.
It’s considered bad luck to rename a warship. However the crew will not nickname it anything close to Milk. Taking into account the action words commonly used, raging along with another word is my guess. I’m wondering how many bar fights will result.
This is one of those FR threads where when you see the headline you just can’t wait to scroll down to behold the creative hilarity to come.
Finish off the military - the country soon follows.
Who wants to be on that ship? Seriously.
Posthumously awarded the rank of "Rear" Admiral.
This is not MY Navy.
Ping. We have fallen on hard times.
Pres Trump may not be able to overturn this, but perhaps he can sink it :)
NPH is not the title character. He’s a barfly who befriends the title character Ted Mosby (the annoying Josh Radnor).
WOW! I never knew of this (haven’t known much about either Harvey Milk or Jim Jones, really). How appalling that this letter is not known to every American — Harvey Milk and his colleagues working to block investigation of Jim Jones!!!
This shows yet again the perverse double standards in our media and politics. Had a conservative public figure protected Jim Jones in this way I’m pretty sure we’d all hear a great deal about it.
I hope you weren't in the Band
So is his character a successful ladies man?
Matter of fact.
“This is one of those FR threads where when you see the headline you just can’t wait to scroll down to behold the creative hilarity to come.”
it was either the article about “GDP of Micronesian states in years with below average rice harvests,” of the Navy’s Harvey Milk ship.
I wanted to be Marine, also, but they found out my parents were married. (Ducking).
Rum, sodomy, and the lash.
And it’s only going to do milk runs?
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