Worse than “over and out” or “roger wilco” which are never used together, when people say something a second time on the radio, they always say “I repeat, send in the clowns!” The proper way to say it is “I say again, send in the clowns.” When you say “repeat” that means you want another artillery strike just like the last one.
The Seahawk got a lot of use in JAG as well. Probably should have called it the USS Bellisario. 
Intergalactic Gladiator, that might depend on context. While a military radio operator might reserve the word “repeat” for artillery strikes, I doubt that CB truckers make the same distinction.
You don’t remember President Orville Seahawk?
From West Dakota?
He only served a single term.
Hmmm…
Given that carriers have also been named for battles (The Belleau Woods and the Oriskany for example) one would think that writers would name fictional carriers after minor or obscure US military actions.
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[/QUOTE]Actually, proper cataloging would use both forms. The title frames would, as noted, be the chief source of information, and so “Se7en” would be given as the title proper. A good cataloger would also add “Seven” as a variant form of title–both because it appears elsewhere on the piece, and because people will search for it that way. Recording different forms of a title is quite standard in library cataloging.
On the other hand, that doesn’t mean that people are required to use a ridiculous form like “Se7en” in casual conversation. I think of things like that as matters of stylization, not normative spellings. To take another example, what about that TV show about medical interns that starred Zach Braff and Sarah Chalke? Does anyone write its title as [scrubs]? If not, why not? That’s how it appeared onscreen at the beginning of every episode.
Well, like you said, it should appear both ways in the catalog so you can search it either way.
And where on earth were they still using checkout cards in 1995 besides an elementary school library? If Columbia freaking South Carolina could master the newfangled barcode long before then surely other places could handle it.
I saw some kid’s cartoon that had the H.M.S. Titanic hit an iceberg in it. Someone didn’t do the research.
Well, I have the same opinion of Manhattan, and pretty much anywhere on Long Island but there are an awful lot of people who live there. [Way too crowded, housing is too expensive in most instances, and especially Manhattan just plain feels claustrophobic to me.] But there are plenty of people who would go nuts living where the minimum drive to get anywhere from my house is 15 minutes to the nearest tiny town [a grocery, a drugstore, a diner and a few other odds and ends. We got a chinese takeout 3 years ago … so at least there is something edible that we don’t have to cook ourselves. The diner … not so much.]
ROFL, I like the idea.
Maybe they were threatened with a lawsuit by RMS Titanic Inc. for using the name without permission. It wouldn’t surprise me.
This is actually historically accurate. US soldiers during WWII believed that the force from a concussion could rip your face off if you left the chinstrap on. This caused the army to redesign the chinstrap to breakaway during the end of WWII but many soldiers continued to wear it unfastened through Korea and Vietnam.
Actually, between Se7em and Se7ep.
Watch here, starting around 6:35:
It was Caje who told the new guy to unbuckle his helmet, not Saunders. My mistake.I saw a nun in a habit just today. She was in public, walking along the sidewalk. A very pretty brown robe with a belt and a dangling knot thing – like a Dominican? Or Franciscan? And a brown wimple with a white lining. Actually a very attractive ensemble.
Here is an image of something much like it. The figure in the center is very close to what I saw, although without quite so much of a white shoulder piece. Mostly all brown.
Anyway…some nuns still wear habits!
The sound made when someone drops a handgun on the floor.
I don’t know why but whenever someone drops a handgun on the floor, you hear a “tinny” sound like a tin object fell on the floor.
Most handguns are heavy and don’t make that kind of sound at all. The sound they actually make is more like a “thud”.
And if you drop it the wrong way it makes a “bang” sound.
That’s a Jedi. There’s a cosplay convention in town.
They tested this on Mythbusters once. Unless there’s something seriously wrong with it, a firearm will not go off if it’s dropped.
I once saw a flintlock musket go off as its handler was loading it; he slammed the ramrod home and it blew out clear through his hand. This happened because the weapon hadn’t been properly reassembled after cleaning.
Ouch.