“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
They tried to come up with an electric motor for it, but the best battery they could come up with wasn't as powerful as 13 rednecks turning crankshaft...
~50 years after the American Civil War
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ReplyDeleteThe Confederacy's submarine wasn't very effective tho...
ReplyDeleteIt was it's own ASW platform...
ReplyDeleteEver see a diagram of the interior of the CSS Hunley?
ReplyDeleteEverybody that got in that thing had to know they were going to die. At least they took a blockade ship with them.
Were they the etymological originators of the term, "screw you"...?
ReplyDeleteThey tried to come up with an electric motor for it, but the best battery they could come up with wasn't as powerful as 13 rednecks turning crankshaft...
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