Expensive Mistakescoopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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Potentially a very expensive mistake... two ships in the night...I do hope this is true. Apparently it's a transcript of a radio conversation released by the US Chief of Naval Operations in 1995.
ship 1: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.
ship 2: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.
ship 1: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.
ship 2: No. I say again, suggest you divert YOUR course.
ship 1. THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS MISSOURI, WE ARE A LARGE WARSHIP OF THE US NAVY. DIVERT YOUR COURSE NOW!
ship 2. This is a Canadian lighthouse. Your call.
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String Theory sometimes feeds the sparrows too, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 9:25,
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OK, so I'm being pedanticBut there's no way this could be an exact transcript, as the USS Missouri was a WWII vintage battleship (that remained in service until around about that time) but it certainly isn't/wasn't an aircraft carrier.
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The Missouri was the ship used in "Under Siege"Starring lanky-potato-head Steven Segal.
It also features the two greatest film lines ever,
"I'M JUST.....A...COOK."
and
"I....ALSO....COOK."
How he was let onto the screen is anyone's idea.
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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 9:48,
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SnopesIs always worth checking
www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 9:54, closed)
There's...An advert for a (I think) Swedish company that makes navigation equipment which played on this...
Speaking of adverts and boats, there's another one for a language school from Germany, there's a young German guy in a control room and then an English voice comes on "Mayday mayday, we're sinking, we're sinking!" german kid replies "Vhat... Are you... Sinking aba-oot?"
I've gone completely off topic, ho hum.
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 11:14, closed)
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