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Ballvalve

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Better get yourself into the library after your cubicles shut off the lights.

It was: a] pre-fab portions joined in sections - welded , firswt time in history, mostly by women.

b] piping, plumbing, design changes only if a crisis occurs, and prefab as much as that as possible.

If its an English "hand built" oceanliner, like the titantic, with steel substandard for a water heater, Don't get near an English ship.

And if its an English motor vehicle, buy a giant drip pan for it immediately.

And by the way, the vehicle that really won the war were the American Jeeps - still running all over Europe.

But back to liberty ships, you really wanted polished door handles and x-rayed welds for ships with expected large U-boat destruction rate? Then you could have enjoyed your cardboard soup with candles for fat and salt scraped from the walls of your basement. You would be the size of your queen if your parents didnt get all that american lard and corn.

Maybe the Japanese or the Russians would have built them for you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ship -

great story about a crap ENGLISH design ship that was a rivet job - and the us made into the first welded ship ever made. One of them recently made the he trip for a D-day event from San Francico. And they were being extended in length as late as 1958 - Best damn ships ever made. And you got them at Wal-mart prices.

All so we could save an island of no strategic merit to us that broke its sacred treaties with Poland and Sudetenland.

Only thing we got was some nice Guiness out of the deal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_John_W._Brown ...you're close enough go take a ride on one.
 
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That boat is fine by American standards but not by English ones. I am surprised it still floats. And as for the wiring....

If you want a decent boat, you get one from the South Koreans.
 

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Just got back from Church.

Got to stop by the Liquor store on the way home.

Good thing that the local Police were directing traffic...

That's what I call, "Your Tax Dollars at work"

Thank You for paying your taxes.


Don't wine, just drink another stiff one...
 

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Your tax dollars Don, but not the churches'.

Tax the churches. It's only fair.

Funny how you never see a poor one...

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Many prey on the weak.

Them kind need to go to hell...

I agree Tax them, and all their Glory.
 

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That boat is fine by American standards but not by English ones. I am surprised it still floats. And as for the wiring....

If you want a decent boat, you get one from the South Koreans.

In 1942 MAYBE you got some seaweed from korea for your soup. You got ships only from America, the distance insulated and metallically blessed.
 

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Oh, but when you walk one in dock you know they were just built so bad.

Hardly your finest hour.
 
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