Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Bullshit bingo for submarine design discussions

[Doc <doc@bionicdolphin.com>]

Now this sounds like fun!
Here's a submission for round one, this was passed around at Undersea Explorations 2000 in San Diego.
Everybody got their BSB cards and highlighter pens ready?



Sweet Virgin Angel “The truth behind the legend”

   Sweet Virgin Angel was the second phase in a conspiracy to blatantly copy and poorly replicate one of natures most successful aquatic
                                                     creations; the dolphin.

  Thrown together with careless abandon, it's wan'abe designer / engineer spared every expense to create an awkward cumbersome vessel that
                                        would be ridiculed and frowned upon by onlookers.

Through haphazard guestimations and alcohol-induced rants he drew up some cartoon like plans on the back of a beer coaster before scraping
                      together the twelve dollars and ninety five cents needed to purchase the first gallon of bondo.

 This glorified plaster skin, thrown over some salvaged 2x4’s would make up the structural core of the some what symmetrical bulbous looking
 fuselage. The completed hull structure was then tightly bound in rolls of ninety eight cent duct tape to add an added feeling of security for the
                           semiconscious pilot who would later be entombed within the coffin like prototype.

  After hours of scrounging through appliance laidened chicken houses a 1953 two horse power washing machine motor was selected to be the
crafts power plant that would be “capable” of propelling the vessel to a lightening speed of somewhere between zero and two hundred miles per
                                                            hour.

   The interior was then crafted out of yard sale purchased floating pool furniture and styrofoam packaging remnants. Finally the finishing
            touches were applied with the addition of some rusty old bicycle parts and some ripped off shopping cart hardware.

     On it's maiden voyage, Sweet Virgin Angel achieved an awesome thirty second venture (under tow) before she lost buoyancy, healed
  dramatically to one side, and plummeted to the deepest part of the lake. Neither pilot nor vessel were ever located, much to the satisfaction of
                                                       the general public



John Brownlee wrote:

>         Bullshit Bingo. Best. PSUBS. Post. Ever. :-)
>
>         Should have come with a Coke-alert for maximum keyboard
> spray-ability though!
>
>                                         Oh what fun,
>
> --
>                                                         John
>
> John Brownlee
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