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PostPosted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:17 pm 
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I was just wondering if anyone has heard anything. The last I heard it was on a boat coming to the U.S.

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And Still.......as darkness falls over America, the sun Rises in the Eastern Pacific......and we wait....and wait...and wait.....*Sigh*

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I was just wondering if anyone has heard anything. The last I heard it was on a boat coming to the U.S.


Ya know dat "Slow boat to China" yer allus hearin' about?

Dey got another comes east. Dat's da boat da Swamp Ghost iz on.

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And Still.......as darkness falls over America, the sun Rises in the Eastern Pacific......and we wait....and wait...and wait.....*Sigh*


Umm... Isn't America in the eastern Pacific?

Here's hoping Gary isn't the ship's navigator! :P

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Yes America is in the eastern pacific, and as the sun goes down on America, it rises out of the east over the eastern pacific. Made sense to me at the time, but given the amount of prescription meds I've had to take since being sick lately, I'm surprized anything makes sense. This why God made. Portable navigation devices.

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Is it on aboat? I thought it was out of there already.

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Yes America is in the eastern pacific, and as the sun goes down on America, it rises out of the east over the eastern pacific. Made sense to me at the time, but given the amount of prescription meds I've had to take since being sick lately, I'm surprized anything makes sense. This why God made. Portable navigation devices.


C'mon- Haven't you ever noticed the birds flying backwards at the end of "The Green Berets" as the sun does something over Vietnam?

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Umm... Isn't America in the eastern Pacific?


Hawaii and Fiji are "IN" the Pacific, I would have thought America is "ON" the edge of the eastern Pacific? forming its coast, other wise from England, America would appear to be "IN" the Atlantic, whereas it sits between both oceans?

As the sun goes down over America it has already long been risen over the Pacific.

By the time its 6pm in Seattle on the Pacific East Coast, and approaching sunset, it is already 12 midday in Sydney on the Pacific's West Coast, and 3pm in Honolulu somewhere in between.

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Some yous guys will absolutely knitPick the Sha-hit outta every little thing,
...Oh wait, you are right! I studied geography in school year after year after year after yearssssss. HOW the fruck could I have missed that minute detail, that North America/Mexico/Central/South America form the Eastern edge of the Pacific OCEAN!!!!!

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I don't think anybody really has the answer to this question, for if it had been known, then those in the know and would tell us, so we would know, then we would all know what we want to know.

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I don't think anybody really has the answer to this question, for if it had been known, then those in the know and would tell us, so we would know, then we would all know what we want to know.


Someone does! However, it's a fact that loose lips sink ships, and I think that's the real reason.

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I don't think anybody really has the answer to this question, for if it had been known, then those in the know and would tell us, so we would know, then we would all know what we want to know.



Sounds like Ober's "secret owners society" :wink: :P


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A loose lip could sink a ship,but which ship? Though all of us here know that Swamp Ghost has finally made it off the docks, I don't believe anyone ever mentioned the name of the ship she was stowed for shipping, I respect the Integrity of those in the know, that know, and sworn to secrecy about where the Swamp Ghost may or may not be as we ponder just what exactly is up with this B-17.

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