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Review: Imaginary Weapons, Part 1

Jul 05, 2006 10:29

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daisy_knotwise July 5 2006, 17:02:05 UTC

Your father would have had a major cow if you had joined the Navy.
The Army? No problem.
The Air Force? Certainly.
To him, the only thing worse than the Navy was The Coast Guard.

GHR

Doughnut Bombs? chris_gerrib July 5 2006, 20:32:14 UTC

Are you serious about the doughnut vs. TNT energy statement? I detect the makings of a humourous SF story.

To Daisy Knotwise - what's wrong with the Navy? Some of us spent a few good years with them.

Re: Doughnut Bombs? daisy_knotwise July 5 2006, 21:20:41 UTC

Nothing's wrong with the Navy. Unless you're a Corporal in the Signal Corps.
I don't know why the different branches of the Armed Services are so ... um... competitive, but they are.

GHR

Re: Doughnut Bombs? chris_gerrib July 5 2006, 23:37:35 UTC

That explains a lot. I'm not a Canoe U (Naval Academy) alumni, but they end all their football fight songs by shouting "Beat Army."

Interservice rivalries, when good, are like the rivalries between Bears and Packer fans. When bad, they get people killed (literally, alas.)

Re: Doughnut Bombs? jeff_duntemann July 5 2006, 21:41:06 UTC

It's a sort of a sibling in-joke: Daisy_Knotwise is my good sister. Our father was in the AACS in WWII, which was part of the Army Air Corps, the precursor to the Air Force, which did not exist until 1947. He loathed the Navy, not sure why, though I think he resented the troop ships on which he sailed and was perpetually seasick. (I inherited that gene from him, alas.) He much preferred aircraft, and spent the war communicating with them as a radio operator in Italy and later North Africa.

I like the Navy, as it may well be a better analog (for fiction writiers) to long-haul space travel than the Air Force.

The TNT/doughnut thing is true. Really. It's all in the detonator.