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[HollyButler]

Dear sir, I am very sorry I posted this story and will reframe from posting any future stories as I did search under illegals and did not see said story being remitted and I certainly do not wish to have Sidebar Moderator displeased and/or upset with me and feel it's better to discontinue posting any future stories when it requires an extensive serach over hundereds of sections. I am very sorry to of caused you problems and will be reframing from posting future stories, this will leave you one less person to double check any story that could be listed any where in any section.Again I am sincerely sorry and thank you for your time.Yours truely, Holly.Have a hapy life.

[buccaneer81]

Here's something to ponder:

Hitler was not a German.

Stalin was not a Russian.

Obama is not an American.

[Allegra]

Funny. You always learn prices, where to crap and cussing first

And in our case, where the nearest bomb shelters are. ;-)

It's true, though. When I was a pre-teen and teenager, my family was stationed in Italy for three years. My siblings and I could cuss fluently within a month of arriving and then learned all the cusswords for the other countries we visited on vacation - before we even went to them. Military brats have a great network for passing that vital information on. LOL

[buccaneer81]

I never heard of any sub made of titanium. Heat resistant (aircraft yes, but a sub?) and lightweight (understandable for any weapons platform), but not the strongest of materials.

[mylife]

I dont know what the deal is on cussing, but its universal. Food and shelter generally come first. Then amore, followed by cussing.... ☺

[mylife]

The Oscar is Titanium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_class_submarine

[VigilantAmerican]

Even if it can be proved beyond any doubt that he was born in Hawaii, he had Kenyan/British citizenship at birth also—he’s EXACTLY the kind of divided-loyalty-laden character our founders were concerned about holding the highest office!!

Not to even mention his demonstrations of loyalty to just about every other country/culture in the world, EXCEPT America, what with refusing to put his hand over his heart for the anthem, refusing to wear the flag pin until backed into a corner, proclaiming himself a “citizen of the world” on foreign soil, dressing up in Muslim garb, travelling to Pakistan on an Indonesian passport, etc...

[mylife]

Whar'd ya go Hon? ☺

[Allegra]

LOL - it's funny how evil we can be to our siblings when we're kids.

I'm the firstborn of five and my brother is thriteen months younger than I am.

The two of us used to team up and terrorize our younger sisters in a variety of ways. We could also put our sisters up to doing some hilarious stuff when they were little.

We all laugh about all of that now.

[Tarantulas]

Perhaps this thread is related to this other thread?

[buccaneer81]

You would think the crush depth would be less than average due to the relative strength of titanium.

Beats me, I'm an Air Force brat. I know more about creatures of the air.

[Allegra]

I dont know what the deal is on cussing, but its universal. Food and shelter generally come first. Then amore, followed by cussing.... ☺

And we've done our diplomatic duty. I'd venture that pretty much all of the Iraqis who work with us Americans can cuss pretty darn fluently in English. :)

[mylife]

Naw. Its tuff stuff. Light. But tuff

[mylife]

Its a fair exchange L0L

[buccaneer81]

he’s EXACTLY the kind of divided-loyalty-laden character our founders were concerned about holding the highest office!!

I've always been eligible for dual citizenship (US-Canada.)

Never gonna happen. Born in the USA, to a US father and a Canadian mother who was later naturalized.

[buccaneer81]

Naw. Its tuff stuff. Light. But tuff

Interesting. I do remember that among other things NASA cheaped out on was a full titanium skin for the space shuttles, so aluminum was widely used along with the nightmarish ceramic heat shield tiles.

Nixon really screwed us there.

[mylife]

My mistake. I was thinking of Alpha class boats, Its been a while

[buccaneer81]

Wow. Supposedly dove to 1300 meters.

[mylife]

We just dont have access to that material like Russia does.

They never did anything spectacular with it, but they have the resources

[mylife]

Those tiles are neat, but a pain in the wazoo.

Made of a unique silica tile

[buccaneer81]

Those tiles are neat, but a pain in the wazoo. Made of a unique silica tile

I read about installation and replacement of the tiles. All have serial numbers as they are all somewhat unique. And they are installed by hand, almost like putting a Revell model together. Expensive.

Just like the original shuttles were supposed to have liquid fueled boosters that could be throttled like the main engines, instead of solids that are like sparklers once they're lit. But at the time, only solids were re-usable, so they won out. At the cost of seven lives and a five billion dollar national asset.