We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:05:15 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification From an email: Interesting Year 1981: 1. Prince Charles got married. 2 . Liverpool crowned soccer champions of Europe. 3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament. 4. Pope died. (Where's the before-you-post-it fact checker?) Interesting year 2005: 1. Prince Charles got married. 2. Liverpool crowned soccer champions of Europe. 3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament. 4. Pope died. Lesson learned? - The next time Charles gets married, someone warn the pope. As Bill notes - bet the farm on Liverpool.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:03:31 -0600 (Okay, I know it's bad form and all to pick on our northern cousins, but....) THe Canadians have WORKING submarines? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43299 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43299 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:21:42 -0600 "mackerel snappers"... lol! I remember people in my neighborhood calling each other that! One of those cases where the offended group appropriates the slur for themselves. As far as the sailors and the convent story.............clearly that was incorrect information. Brahmin propaganda unfairly impugning good sailors. Who are you calling a groupie? The rotation happens to welcome all branches of the military. My ex was an MP out of Fort Hamilton. There's a JetBlue pilot that makes a point of taking me to dinner whenever he is in Boston and he was in the Air Force for 15 years. Why last summer there was even a submariner from the Canadian Navy who was on an exchange program in Newport. I am an equal opportunity Princess. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43277 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43277 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:03:06 -0600 Yup. But that happened post-Civil War, when word got out that you could eat fish in the Navy and nobody would give it a second thought. But even during WWII, Catholics in the Navy still rejoiced in the sobriquet "mackerel snappers"... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43260 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43260 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 06:24:50 -0600 Bill - IIRC, the Navy was for a long time the most 'catholic' of the services, the Army officer corps being a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Anglicans and Methodists... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43258 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43258 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:44:29 -0600 Catholic Historian? Feh! Fie! Ah, well. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43256 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43256 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:31:58 -0600 An unruly, drunken mob of laborers, sailors, apprentices, and hoodlums gathered at the gates of the convent. Hmmmpf--and you a Navy groupie. The same bunch tried to burn St. Rose Church a couple of nights later and were driven off by fifty cops and *Army* militia...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43255 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43255 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:19:37 -0600 this a sore spot.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43253 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43253 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:59:15 -0600 whole Catherine of Aragon thing...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43245 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43245 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:50:27 -0600 Sorry, John I corrected him from whom you got this tidbit. Should have done a send to all rather than just the Catholic historian who perpetrated this woeful attempt at humor. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43244 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43244 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:24:52 -0600 *sluuurp!* http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43237 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43237 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:11:10 -0600 Ry - You're not supposed to mention *licking* with FbL lurking about. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43236 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43236 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:02:08 -0600 (Along the lines of the old Timex commercial) Pope JP2, takes a licking and keeps on ticking. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43224 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43224 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:35:55 -0600 Supposedly, the pickup line Charles delivered to Di was, "If you think my *ears* are big..." http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43223 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43223 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:59:31 -0600 Chief! You beat me to it! John Paul I died in 1978. My favorite Prince Charles joke was one where Princess Diana supposedly says "Prince Charles proves that not all rulers are twelve inches." *delivered with snotty English accent* http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43220 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43220 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:27:19 -0600 My take on it is, any time Charles gets married, bet the ranch on Liverpool... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43214 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43214 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:57:23 -0600 The Pope didn't die in 1981. John Paul II was *shot* four times, but he survived the assassination attempt... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43212 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/hmmm.html#comment-43212 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:51:47 -0600