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--- Begin Message ---Yea, I bet neither the crew nor the prez are too happy about it these days.Thanks for the web ref. I wondered how that bloody minisub got deployed so quickly in "Hunt for Red October".I don't know which story haunts James Earl Carter more, the rabbit or the UFO.
Keith Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi Terry.
I laughed too when I saw this, then I got kind of annoyed.
Naming a nuclear attack submarine like this after him is in
poor taste at best.
http://cryptome.org/mmp/jimmy-carter.htm
As well, that the name should invoke some fear in the enemy;
even the common swamp rabbit is nonplussed by this moniker.
More on Carter's naval adventures here.
http://www.narsil.org/politics/carter/killer_rabbit.html
...including rare photos of the enraged lagomorph charging
the presidential vessel, and the former president driving
off the beast with some decidedly non-nuclear weaponry.
( of course, one might imagine some nuclear reactions
occurring in the cavitation bubbles formed by all that
splashing... )__________________________________________________
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