[metesky]

I was hoping someone started a Pearl Harbor thread so I could vent my spleen on it.

Up early, turned on the History Channel to see if anybody besides me gave a chit about Pearl Harbor Day. Sure enough, there was the familiar sight of the Arizona with crowds of tourists, etc.

But as I listened, it hit me (1st cup of coffee) that they weren't talking about the loss of the men and women who died that day, they weren't talking about the perfidious Nips plunging the United States into almost five years of bloody combat around the world, no, no and no.

They had a much more important subject to discuss: the looming ecological disaster the Arizona will cause as it gradually degrades in place!

I'm lucky I still have a TV! And whatever History Channel exec who ran that chit is sooo lucky they weren't within arms reach... I'll be seeing red for days over this.

Maybe I'm just a grumpy old fart. :O(

[tubebender]

I had the same TV experience around 40 years ago when I threw a nearly full bottle of Hamms Beer at ours, missed, and put the neatest hole in the sheetrock above it!

Can you guess what evening that was...

[andy58-in-nh]

Well, maybe I'm a grumpy middle-aged fart, but I prefer the old style of remembrance:

[reagan_fanatic]

Maybe I'm just a grumpy old fart. :O(

You may be a grumpy old fart, but you are absolutely right. The focus of Pearl Harbor Day should be on those who lost their lives, not some damned oil bubbles.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

They had a much more important subject to discuss: the looming ecological disaster the Arizona will cause as it gradually degrades in place!

Are you freaking serious? Why don’t the ‘Rats see a nuclear jihad as an ecological disaster?

[SunkenCiv]

Cable / satellite TV isn’t worth whatever people pay for it, particularly with broadband. Of course, if broadband isn’t an option, that could be a problem. Unless there’s dialup... :’) I don’t blame you one bit for being tinkled off.