{"id":639,"date":"2007-09-28T08:16:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/friday-funny-irresistable-force-vs-immovable-object\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T10:17:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T17:17:59","slug":"friday-funny-irresistable-force-vs-immovable-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/friday-funny-irresistable-force-vs-immovable-object\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Funny: Irresistable Force vs. Immovable Object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Unknown<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/immovableobject.gif\" alt=\"Transcript of conversation between USS Lincoln and Lighthouse\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTranscript (the image is tough to read.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis is the actual radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. Radio conversation release by the chief of naval operations 10-10-95.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>CANADIANS:<\/b> Please divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>AMERICANS:<\/b> Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the north to avoid a collision.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>CANADIANS:<\/b> Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>AMERICANS:<\/b> This is the captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>CANADIANS:<\/b> No, I say again, you divert YOUR course.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>AMERICANS:<\/b> This is the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, the second largest ship in the United States Atlantic Fleet. We are accompanied by three Destroyers, three Cruisers, and numerous support vessels. I DEMAND that you change your course 15 degrees north. I say again, that&#8217;s one-five degrees north, or counter-measures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>CANADIANS:<\/b> This is a lighthouse. Your call.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnd this is a joke, completely bogus. See the comments for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Unknown Transcript (the image is tough to read.) This is the actual radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. Radio conversation release by the chief of naval operations 10-10-95. CANADIANS: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}