Elde
BambooWeb:Article series
Hello "Elde" and welcome to BambooWeb. A few tips for you:
Infrogmation 16:56, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Two sailors reminisce
Welcome aboard! I like your "To Do" list; please take a look at BambooWeb:WikiProject Ships for some suggestions as to format and naming conventions -- but don't hesitate to suggest better ways to do it! I was on Ohio Blue Crew's first two patrols. What boats were you in? --the Epopt, MM1(SS).
- Thanks! Strat weps and submarines are is something of a hobby of mine. I brought the '55 out of overhaul then did four on her out of Kings Bay, then taught at TTF. (Still live in Kitsap.) Nuke or A-ganger? Elde 17:58, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC) FTB2/SS
ELT. '55 == Stimson? That part of Washington is a beautiful place. --the Epopt
- Yes, the good ol' hogbody herself. (Which reminds me, I ought to add the fleet nicknames to the boat pages.) I did 'C' school here, and loved it, so when I got offered an instructor billet here I jumped on it. 'bout ready to move back to a place with four real seasons though. It's been sad driving by the shipyard and seeing parts of old boats loaded into rail cars as scrap. Elde 02:05, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Absolutely you should add any nicknames you know! I've added a very few, but with only one, brand-new boat on my record, I'm not salty enough to know very many.
- It's not about salt, it's more that T-hulls (for whatever reason) never really used 'em. It was real shock when I came out here just how different the '41 and Trident fleets were socially and sociologically.
- There are a variety of reasons for this, but the biggest is the simplest; Trident crews simply never took pride in their boats. I never saw a Trident sailor say "*I'm* on the Ohio" with the same "and ya wanna make something of it?" attitude you commonly saw on the older boats. For whatever reason the crews just never identified themselves with their boats.
- Odd thing about the nicknames though... Some, like Georgefish were known throughout the fleet, the same for Lost and Confused or Jolly Dolly and others. Yet the Stimson was known as the 'hog only to her crew. Elde 06:34, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Is it a Trident-only thing, or an all-boomers thing? <psychology style="armchair">We never felt we owned the boat because every three months we had to let 150 strangers take her away from us and get her all stinky. (We didn't stink, but the Goldies sure did.)</psychology> I remember several of us consciously trying to think up nicknames, starting with "O-hole" and getting stupider from there, but nothing would stick.
- I think it was a Trident-only thing. You saw that attitude in Charleston quite strongly, and in the sailors I met out of Groton and Pearl. (At least in the '41 all boats had three crews anyhow, Gold, Blue, and Other. It was always the Other crew that effed things up.) It wasn't just nicknames, and 'pride' but other things as well, the 'pride' thing was just the most noticeable. (That may come from how little time you spent on your boats. You were only really on them during patrol, whereas we were away from home for refit.) The nicknames I remember were "O-hyro" and "Showboat" for Ohio. Elde 23:52, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Article series
Hi, you had previously expressed an interest in BambooWeb:Article series. Jengod, Jiang and I disagree on what types of articles are suitable for a series and. Just thought I'd let you know since watchlists aren't usually working these, and only three people have opined at all. Tuf-Kat 07:43, Jan 17, 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks T-K, I'll stop in and review/comment. Elde 23:52, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi!
Nice to see someone else in from my hometown. - Fennec 03:34, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- We're everywhere, we're everywhere! :) Elde 03:38, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
USS Tulibee / Disambiguation
Hi. Thanks for the tip. Without the disambig tag, I mistook USS Tullibee for a stub. Also, please don?t edit my User page in the future; please use my talk page, or I can?t see your message. --Merovingian 11:26, Jan 28, 2004 (UTC)
Lemon Party
What was "horrid" about Lemon Party? I agree that it should be deleted--or better yet, made a redirect, since the material was already at shock site. But to say so to the creator was just too harsh--it was a legitimate encyclopedia article on a piece of internet culture. Don't Bite the Newbies. Yours, Meelar 19:34, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- It was 'horrid' mostly because it was poorly written and seems to serve no real purpose. My comment was made to the individual that marked the page for deletion. (I may have mis-clicked, if so, that was an error.) Elde 09:01, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Two stage to orbit
I'll be interested in reading why TSTO gets so much more attention than other multistage rocket configurations. Nobody gets excited about "three stage to orbit". Mackerm 08:11, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- George H. explained it in a reply to your message on sci.space.history, I'll adapt it when I get a moment.Elde 09:05, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Great Seal of the Realm
<<Copied from Rednblu talk page>>
I do not understand why you moved my comment on a page that describes a physical object to the page of the man charged with the keeping of that object.. Especially since the comment, now sans context, makes no sense. Elde 07:33, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Sorry for the interruption. I completed the page at Great Seal of the Realm to replace the redirect and restored your comments. ---Rednblu 20:44, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
