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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7211372 times)

Offline Toast

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"T" is trials
« Reply #11060 on: February 12, 2007, 01:36:36 am »
After a high-time supper by the fire... tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, Jack and Ennis discussed the trials that the Thresher was being put through when it disintegrated in 1963.

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Offline Fran

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"U" is undecipherable
« Reply #11061 on: February 12, 2007, 01:37:47 am »
After a high-time supper by the fire... tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, Jack and Ennis talked about the submarine Thresher, whose final communications were garbled, undecipherable message fragments.
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Offline southendmd

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"V" is vulnerableness
« Reply #11062 on: February 12, 2007, 09:42:08 am »
After a high-time supper by the fire... tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, Jack and Ennis talked about the submarine Thresher, and spoke of the vulnerableness of life in a submarine.
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"W" is Wiggins
« Reply #11063 on: February 12, 2007, 10:16:08 am »
After a high-time supper by the fire... tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, Jack and Ennis talked about the casualties of the submarine Thresher, one of whom was Charles L. Wiggins, FT1.
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Offline Fran

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"X" is xposure
« Reply #11064 on: February 12, 2007, 10:16:47 am »
After a high-time supper by the fire... tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, Jack and Ennis talked about the Thresher  disaster, sharing information gleaned from media xposure.
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Offline Fran

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Round 407!!!!!!!
« Reply #11065 on: February 12, 2007, 10:20:30 am »
Round 407!

"USS Thresher on Eternal Patrol"
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"A" is adventures
« Reply #11066 on: February 12, 2007, 11:11:03 am »
After a high-time supper by the fire... tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, Jack and Ennis talked about the adventures of being a seaman on the submarine Thresher.
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"B" is beaches
« Reply #11067 on: February 12, 2007, 12:54:42 pm »
After a high-time supper by the fire, Jack and Ennis talked about the submarine Thresher, which had been lost two months earlier with all hands, somewhere off the beaches of Cape Cod.
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"C" is Cape
« Reply #11068 on: February 12, 2007, 12:59:11 pm »
After a high-time supper by the fire... tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, Jack and Ennis discussed the submarine Thresher  lost two months earlier somewhere southeast of Cape Cod.
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"D" is debris
« Reply #11069 on: February 12, 2007, 01:24:03 pm »
After a high-time supper by the fire, Jack and Ennis talked about the submarine Thresher, lost off Cape Cod, whose debris had been located on the sea floor some 8,400 feet below the surface, in six major sections.
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