# About that torpedoed Iranian warship

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Tags:** trump, iran-strikes-2026\
**Created:** [March 6, 2026, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-that-torpedoed-iranian-warship/1028255 "2026-03-06T12:48:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-that-torpedoed-iranian-warship/1028255/250 "2026-03-12T05:04:11Z")

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> [@Pardel-Lux](#):
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> I would have liked to know what a sturgeon class spadefish has to do with a headphones wearing rabbit.

> [@I finally figured out my username from 20 years ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-figured-out-my-username-from-20-years-ago/1027758/20):
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> Every submarine has a Thumper - on the Spadefish it just happened to be me.

As to what “thumper” means:

> [@I finally figured out my username from 20 years ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-figured-out-my-username-from-20-years-ago/1027758/23):
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> Well, that’s a bit of a NSFW story. Let’s just say that submariners will make a game out of just about anything, and I happened to win the game during a Med deployment in 1989.

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