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Let's Pool Our Cash And Buy An Aircraft Carrier! Viva La Revolution!

Foust is SO authentic

11:36 / 30.12.03

So, I've got about $23. Who else is in?

11:51 / 30.12.03

VEHICLE CONDITION

All instruments of war have been removed or decommissioned.

Well, I'm not interested anymore. Although it would have made a nice flagship for my mercenary Caribbean Navy.

12:01 / 30.12.03

Let's buy a decommisioned missile silo instead. Barbelith needs a lair.

12:32 / 30.12.03

Well, jeez, can't we just bolt some one? Although maybe there's a Phalanx gun for sale on ebay...

Morlock - groupie for hire

12:47 / 30.12.03

Looks like the catapult's still working. *That* could be a lot of fun...

16:29 / 30.12.03

Finally, a really fekking ace idea.

Soooo...what would be our Prime Directive?

16:41 / 30.12.03

what would be our Prime Directive?

Perhaps some kind of pun incorporating candles and exploring unknown territories? Or would that be just too obvious?

16:49 / 30.12.03

Full ahead, ramming speed!

16:51 / 30.12.03

Captian: Engage!
Number One: In...?

Our first mission, we should set course to the Barbelith Egregore, behind the moon. I think that is where it is.

EE

17:47 / 30.12.03

My grandfather spent a lot of time on aircraft carriers. You know, doing the navy thing: swabbing, getting lost inside it, and occasionally dropping helicopters over the edge. He said it wasn't as much fun as he thought it'd be.

Cheap. Easy. Cruel.

19:46 / 30.12.03

I can toss in $100. I am sure I could come up with some armaments for it if absolutely necessary. I got first bid on riding the catapult!

20:21 / 30.12.03

Can somebody sort out pasting a photo of the potential USS Barbelith into the thread? I just cannot be arsed with that link, and before I even consider splicing my mainbrace, I’d like to check that this ship is actually, er, ship-shape.

I busted my nuts trying to borrow 50 grand for a decommissioned gunboat last year before giving up, by the way. It still hasn’t sold though. If I become suddenly, unexpectedly rich, it’s still the first thing on my shopping list. Well, second thing, after a bottle of wine. This one appears to be empty.

01:59 / 31.12.03

Current bid is at $7 million and change.

Tryphena Absent

02:36 / 31.12.03

I pledge 10 quid. I'd prefer a space shuttle, none of those up for sale??

02:47 / 31.12.03

One came on the market last February, but

(a) You'd have to go to Texas to pick it up, and

(b) It's "some assembly required."

08:41 / 31.12.03

It's "some assembly required."

Presumably with the aid of a giant tube of epoxy-resin and a set of those little paper sticker/transfer thingys to misplace over the outer shell.

08:52 / 31.12.03

Thanks, Jack. Blimey. That is a big boat. Why doesn’t it sink? It must be ever so heavy.

At first I thought that the big flat bit on top would be, well, kind of underused unless we also all bring our own aircraft (Sparks could tootle her space shuttle up and down the deck I suppose, the big showoff). But I now realise this is actually the natural ‘next step’ for Barbelith! An autonomous, floating city-state! Like Christiania, except with waves. No taxes, baby!! No Government! And the people found guilty (by general consensus) of common nastiness being forced to walk the plank! Although we’d have to moor in shark-infested waters for that to work.

And every Wednesday we could have an open-air market on the deck, and groovy hipsters the world over would fly in to buy our splendid wares: comics and political pamphlets from our own printing presses, CDs by all the resident musicians. All manner of ‘hemp-based’ products. And tomatoes, because they’re bloody easy to grow. Kegboy’s wine. Knitting, fresh-baked biscuits, and Olulabelle’s sloe gin (obviously, I’ve just been reading the Barbelith Women’s Institute thread, which’ll bring out the giddy utopian in anyone). Er, home-made candles.

That colour will have to go, though. Why are battleships always Battleship Gray , for god’s sake? Is it the law? I suggest repainting it a nice, bright red.

11:03 / 31.12.03

Sounds like a plan!

I pledge the rather limited contents of my bank account, provided we can sail around the south coast for a bit making utterly pointless pirate radio broadcasts..

And I don't think red is such a good idea.. all it would take is one cold war crazed American submarine captain and we'd be done for..

I say paint it pitch black and hoist the jolly rodger. Surely nobody could take issue with that.

16:41 / 31.12.03

Surely nobody could take issue with that.

Spoilsports that they are the British Government still view Piracy of the High Seas as a Capital offence. Yes it would be fun and all, but you get caught and they hang you

Tryphena Absent

17:28 / 31.12.03

Nonsense Swish. Think how good we would collectively look in an aircraft carrier and what an excuse to buy a scuba dress coupled with a dinky little Jack Sparrow style headscarf. Oh and a cutlass. Can't forget the weapons. We'll just have to find some water where they won't arrest us. Hey! Just think of the utter jealousy that it would cause in the ninjas!