Notable Quotables: Canadians 1, Americans 0

It's Notable, Quotable, Ponderable and Worth the Thought

Canadians 1, Americans, Zero

I don’t especially like Canadians, especially since they became all liberal and anti-American. But the quote below, all explanation in the italics, is a hoot. As you shall see, the Americans lost this one.

The following transcript of an ACTUAL radio conversation between a US Navy ship and Canadian authorities was taken from an incident off the coast of Newfoundland in October 1995. This radio conversation was released by the Chief of Naval Operations on 10/10/95.

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Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.

Canadians: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the SOUTH to avoid a collision.

Americans: This is the Captain of a U.S. Navy ship. I say again. divert YOUR course.

Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.

Americans: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH; THAT'S ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE TAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.

Canadians: This a lighthouse. Your call!

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Mark Twain on school boards

“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
- Mark Twain

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The Quote This Week That Says It All

Thanks to Chuck Muth of Muth’s Truths for the Groucho and Twain Quote

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies."

- Groucho Marx