count 'em, SIX funnels, Yikes!
Monday, January 28, 2013
On Funnels
The reason for the forest of funnels on the latest model is simply this; that is how they built them "back in the day". Review the funnely glory of these beasts! All pictures are from the delightful Big Bad Battleships website.
This is what I was thinking of, still not sure what I am going to do, just pointing out the source of my ideas.
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Overshadowed by the more glamorous Dreadnought arms race, the Funnel Wars were a little known but important destabilizing force in Europe that ultimately lead to the Great War. In a bid to out do each other, the European powers added funnel after funnel to their warships in some cases it is rumoured, adding false funnels in a desperate attempt to one up their neighbours.
ReplyDeleteThe Funnel Wars came to a rather embarrassing end when while reviewing the French Fleet the great actress Sarah Bernhardt remarked: "The sign of a true Frenchman is not how many funnels he has, but how he uses the one he has already got."
Great, I just spit coffee all over my wife's keyboard!
ReplyDeletePat G, you are killing me
Thant was brilliant!