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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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Originally posted by Quizmaster:
If you post a picture of that ship your post will be better.
please note that you cannot put HTML for web images into your posts, and ASCII art is severely frowned upon.
WK
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Angel Wrestler
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quote:
Originally posted by Wet Kipper:
quote:
Originally posted by Quizmaster:
If you post a picture of that ship your post will be better.
please note that you cannot put HTML for web images into your posts, and ASCII art is severely frowned upon.
WK
Host etc.
So, wise Quizmaster, would a link to a picture be sufficient?
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Imaginary Friend
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Posted
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Originally posted by Quizmaster:
In the case of a tie, the quality of the post will be used to make the decision.
That is quite beautifully subjective. ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Angel Wrestler
Ship's Hipster
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The Enterprise
Maximum Speed: Warp 8
(pictures in link)
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Mertseger
Faerie Bard
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It's been years since I've sailed, but I've got to go with wind power. I'll take Yellow Pages Endeavor which is the current world record holder at 86.2 kph. It's a really cool trimaran to boot.
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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I pick this ship, which has a maximum speed of approximately 24Mbps - I encourage you to admire the unique stylized decoration and discreet colour scheme ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
[ 23. September 2008, 21:51: Message edited by: Doublethink ]
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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An exciting high-speed action film of HMS York racing along at 30 knots.
(After all that seaspray, if anyone still needs to find help to view Comet's restful water picture) then take a peek at my amended suggestion, here.
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PataLeBon
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I claim Daniel/Sam from SG-1 (a "ship" in fanfiction circles)
They go across the galaxy in seconds, so they do have a speed... ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Stargate
(I can't post what "shipping" is because it has a parenthesis..And the board doesn't like that. ![[Frown]](frown.gif) )
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Geneviève
Mother-Hatting Cat Lover
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The Sea Fighter is supposed to be the Navy's fastest ship, with speeds greater than 50 knots. Not beautiful but useful.
[ 23. September 2008, 22:53: Message edited by: Geneviève ]
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chicklegirl
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With so many types of ships to choose from, this should be a fun round!
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Geneviève
Mother-Hatting Cat Lover
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And a beautiful rose for each of our valiant also rans.
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chicklegirl
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Damn the torpedos (and the editing window as well!) I was going to add all sorts of helpful links...
But instead I'll just post my choice for this round of the lovely Lady Washington, which is famous for several roles in movies and on which several of my cousins crew. Her top speed is about 11 knots.
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rugasaw
Shipmate
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I pick this ship. And according to this source the tootsie model goes in three licks. And from my experience most models of this ship go very fast particularly on the night of October 31st.
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Imaginary Friend
Real to you
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I'm going to brink myself by entering the SS Great Britain, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built in my hometown of Bristol. According to the Wiki, her top speed was 12.5 knots (about 14.4 miles per hour) without the aid of sails.
Here are pictures of her then (you have to scroll down a little) and now
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Imaginary Friend
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# 186
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Oh, not so brinkish, thanks to the crosspost ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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chicklegirl
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Originally posted by davelarge:
Oh, not so brinkish, thanks to the crosspost
Don't worry, Dave; what matters is that you felt brinkish, even if the thrill lasted just those few fleeting seconds! This way, you get all of the thrill (okay, well some of it) and none of the danger.
[edited to add words left out!]
[ 23. September 2008, 23:27: Message edited by: chicklegirl ]
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rugasaw
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by davelarge:
Oh, not so brinkish, thanks to the crosspost
Hey you try to convert licks to miles per hour. All I know is my ship will be no longer be visible to anyone while yours will take awhile to get out of eyesight.
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Patdys
Iron Wannabe
RooK-Annoyer
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I choose the starship the 'Heart of Gold' from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
From Wikipedia on 'infinite probability drives' which power the ship; quote:
When one activates the Infinite Improbability Drive, the ship is literally everywhere at once)
As the ship is everwhere, it has a top speed of zero. Try and outbrink that!
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Patdys
Iron Wannabe
RooK-Annoyer
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Gwai, if you wanted to out brink you could argue a spaceship is not a ship.
If you wanted safety, you could argue your ship does move in the ocean. Down is a direction.
At any rate, yours is a much more beautiful craft with a much more attractive skipper.
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Adam.
Like as the
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I'll go for The Titanic. That's a decision that always ended well for people, didn't it?
Its top speed is 23 knots, or 43kph.
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Nutmeg
Ship's spice girl
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I will nominate the Australian
ships of the desert,
which according to this site, can travel at speeds of up to 16 km an hour for up to 80 kms.
[ 24. September 2008, 01:42: Message edited by: Nutmeg ]
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rugasaw
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Patdys:
I choose the starship the 'Heart of Gold' from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
From Wikipedia on 'infinite probability drives' which power the ship; quote:
When one activates the Infinite Improbability Drive, the ship is literally everywhere at once)
As the ship is everwhere, it has a top speed of zero. Try and outbrink that!
Now Patdys if you go from one place to every place instantly is it an infinite speed or zero speed? You might not be has close to brinksmanship as you think.
And Hart I don't think the Titanic currently has the ability to move. So will the QM accept top capable speed ever or current top capable speed? Personally I think we should go with top capable speed ever. But I am not in charge(everybody can breath a sigh of relief now).
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PataLeBon
Shipmate
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I found more precise speed for the Stargate.
6 seconds to go across the galaxy...Or between galaxies (that might take a bit longer...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_
(you will need to add (device) to the end of that...
I still can't get those things to work
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Liberty
ship's football fanatic
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The best ship of all... The Premiership!
And it's top Speed is Gary Speed who has made the most ever appearances ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
ij x (I'm grateful QM said 'top' not fastest!)
Oh - and the fastest a Premiership player can go is around 20 MPH
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Adam.
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quote:
Originally posted by rugasaw:
And Hart I don't think the Titanic currently has the ability to move. So will the QM accept top capable speed ever or current top capable speed? Personally I think we should go with top capable speed ever. But I am not in charge(everybody can breath a sigh of relief now).
I don't think it'd be fair to insist on current speed without also insisting on actual speed for all the fictional ships people have been suggesting (which, I'm guessing, would also be 0, as they don't actually exist).
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rugasaw
Shipmate
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Hart, I think you are right and I probably shouldn't have mentioned it.
Icklejen, great choice. I didn't know Gary Speed was still playing.
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Golden Key
Shipmate
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The legendary, one-of-a-kind Spruce Goose, with a cruising speed of "220 mph (353.98 km/h)".
This is from a poem about the Spruce Goose, by Alma:
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You did fly and I think you might have been great,
But that subject was just lost, in the usual debate.
So here you sit, in McMinnville Oregon museum jail...
I believe in you and think through the air you could sail!
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The Great Gumby
Ship's Brain Surgeon
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As others have posted Starships, I'll go one better with a "Stars Ship" - S.S. Southern Cross. According to the Ocean Liner Museum (a useful site for all your cruising information needs), its top speed was 21 knots.
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Rugmaker
Shipmate
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No time to be clever or silly today, unfortunately, so I choose the Stiletto Ship which looks like nothing on earth and can run at 50 knots.
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Adam.
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Originally posted by rugasaw:
Hart, I think you are right and I probably shouldn't have mentioned it.
Of course you should have mentioned it! I think it was such a good argument that I should get many smart points for being able to rebut it.
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the pilgrim
Ship's Brownist
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I pick a fishing boat, the schooner Bluenose It's the ship on the back of the Canadian dime. Launched in 1921 it fished and raced until it wreacked off of Hati in the 40's. It never did much better than any other boat at fishing, but boy, could she race! No one knows the top speed she ever hit, but her daughter, the Bluenose II , built to original plans by many of the same people who worked on the origianl Bluenose, can easily hit 16 knots (30 mph) under sail.
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Geneviève
Mother-Hatting Cat Lover
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For all of you still looking, don't forget Gort has a trusty "ship" (i don't think he'd appreciate it being called a ship). Might qualify on the brinkmanship category too.
And the Stiletto is beautiful!
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East Price Road
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I started out thinking I would like to choose only from ships I had actually sailed on - that narrows it down drastically.
When I lived in Denmark in the 1980s I once sailed on a ferry from Kalundborg to Århus on a large brand new ferry named Peder Paars. I googled it only to find that it has changed names several times, and been used as a ferry in several different countries, currently in Norway. It has a top speed of 19 knots (21 mph).
Incidentally I have just found out that a knot is 1 nautical mile per hour, equivalent to about 1.15 miles. I'm no professor of mathematics, but in The Pilgrim's post above, he equates 16 knots to 30 mph - can this be right?
I hope that with all these different ways of measuring sailing speeds (we have not even mentioned kilometres per hour) our quizmaster is not going to get himself tied up in....no, forget it. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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May I present the USS Leyte. She had a speed of 33 Knots, and a crew of 3448, one of which was my Daddy.
When I started w*rking at my present church over fifteen years ago, a young lady (who became my friend) and I discovered that her Daddy was on the same ship at the same time as my Dad. They didn't know each other as her dad was a machinist below decks, and my dad was an aircraft mechanic on the deck.
Here's a picture, and interestingly, one of the service ships has the same name as the river I posted in the Quiz!!
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I started out with boats that I knew, but I had a sinking feeling that all those were too slow. I went to the Navy and chose the Seawolf of the class of the same name with three of its kind. It can reach speeds of up to 30 knots . It reminds me of the Hunt for Red October, which is a book and movie that I love.
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PataLeBon
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quote:
Originally posted by Geneviève:
For all of you still looking, don't forget Gort has a trusty "ship" (i don't think he'd appreciate it being called a ship). Might qualify on the brinkmanship category too.
And the Stiletto is beautiful!
I know I like the way that Gort talks about his lady...
But tell a fanfiction junkie, what ship do you like, and well, we don't think like everyone else.
That's ok, isn't it? ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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rugasaw
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by CuppaT:
I started out with boats that I knew, but I had a sinking feeling that all those were too slow. I went to the Navy and chose the Seawolf of the class of the same name with three of its kind. It can reach speeds of up to 30 knots . It reminds me of the Hunt for Red October, which is a book and movie that I love.
For a bit I thought you were talking about a lost
submarine.
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the pilgrim
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Originally posted by East Price Road:
Incidentally I have just found out that a knot is 1 nautical mile per hour, equivalent to about 1.15 miles. I'm no professor of mathematics, but in The Pilgrim's post above, he equates 16 knots to 30 mph - can this be right?
I hope that with all these different ways of measuring sailing speeds (we have not even mentioned kilometres per hour) our quizmaster is not going to get himself tied up in....no, forget it.
I am so sorry, my mistake! At 16 knots the Bluenose II is going at a rate of 30
kilometers per hour
I was playing for brinksmanship with this pick - and so far, it looks like I may get knocked out for my trouble!
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Mertseger
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quote:
Originally posted by East Price Road:
(we have not even mentioned kilometres per hour)
Well, I did, and so to save QM from a click of the mouse, I will note that the record for the Yellow Pages Endeavor was a bit over 46 knots.
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Angel Wrestler
Ship's Hipster
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Originally posted by Hart:
quote:
Originally posted by rugasaw:
And Hart I don't think the Titanic currently has the ability to move. So will the QM accept top capable speed ever or current top capable speed? Personally I think we should go with top capable speed ever. But I am not in charge(everybody can breath a sigh of relief now).
I don't think it'd be fair to insist on current speed without also insisting on actual speed for all the fictional ships people have been suggesting (which, I'm guessing, would also be 0, as they don't actually exist).
Great and Wise Quizmaster (clearly going for Brownie points) did not indicate specifics.
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Angel Wrestler
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If this man threw this , then The Enterprise would travel at 103 miles per hour.
Since the model is real and tangible one can no longer claim it to be fictional and since it can be thrown, one cannot consider it to be immobile.
**clearly hedging my bets** ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Quizmaster
Quick quipper
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In the first quick finish which is tough on those who may just have gone out for the evening/day I am closing the round.
Eliminated for failing to post:
Comet
Ephemera
Sharkshooter
QUALIFIERS
Angel Wrestler
Caty.
Chicklegirl
Chorister
CuppaT
Davelarge
Doublethink
East Price Road
Flags_Fiend
Fletcher Christian
Genevieve
Golden Key
Hart
Icklejen
Jedijudy
Mertseger
Nutmeg
PataLeBon
Patdys
Rugasaw
Rugmaker
Surfing Madness
The Great Gumby
The Pilgrim
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Quizmaster
Quick quipper
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ROUND FIVE : FURNITURE
You must choose an item of furniture.
You then have to give it a value based on A=1,B=2,C=3...etc...Z=26.
Add the first, second, fourth and subsequent letters and take away the value of the third letter.
The person scoring closest to the mean average score will be eliminated.
ENJOY.
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Mertseger
Faerie Bard
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Checking in my credenza for my secret decoder ring, I believe I'll kick things off at 66.
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