Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread XXX - Luornu's Thing

Such soft brown hair they have.

Who can forget the eerie comedy of 1956's I Married An Atomic Submarine?

Sure! You could marry an atomic submarine before you could marry a same sex partner.

In 1966, you could buy a war surplus pre-atomic submarine from the Navy without even leaving your full address. Or so I heard from a chap named P. N. Guin.

My mate does submarine tours around Ireland in the one they sold cheaply to him. Look for Mr. T O'Rpedo Tours if you're visiting.

I don't think I've ever ridden in a submarine. I did explore one at a museum, though.

I used to crack up at the old ads for the National Geographic Channel -- "EXPLORE. YOUR. WORLD."

I had a very romanticized view of explorers when I was younger.

A lot of us did. Columbus was particularly held up as a hero. It's only been the last few decades that most people in the United States were confronted with what a monster he was.

Sally Brown thought Columbus Day was the explorer's actual name! LOL

No to mention how Columbus "succeeded" only because he was wrong. (Contemporary wisdom was that the world was round and about the size we know it today. Columbus was convinced it was much smaller so sailing west he would find a shortcut to Asia and the Indies. Whoops.)

One of the more interesting historical speculations is the Ferdinand and Isabella actually knew that Columbus was wrong, but also knew about the existence of the Americas from various pre-Columbian travelers, so funded Columbus on that basis.

Behind his back, Columbus's crew called him "Wrongway Chris."

Fun fact: In one of the classic Bugs Bunny cartoons, his nemesis du jour is none other than Columbus, whom Bugs, true to form, insists on calling "Chris."

Both Tommy Tomorrow and Chris KL-99 were known as "the Columbus of Space" back in the day.

Everyone else already knew their way around the galaxy when those two discoverers showed up.

The more you have 20th century Earth heroes running around the galaxy, the less sense those two make.

Heck, anyone who could pay could do that by hiring Space Cabbie

Space Cabbie's eyes light up when Tommy Tomorrow appears with a ragged map full of places Cabbie already knows. Of course, his cabbie nature ensures that, even on a pan galactic expedition, he adds plenty of extra distance between locations to hike up his fare.

Nowadays Tommy Tomorrow uses Space Uber rather than Space Cabbie

Uber is blocked in some parsecs / space sectors though, so he has to use GrabeSpaceShuttle there

When I were a lass living in Quito, you could get to just about any important place on foot, especially if you lived near Avenida Amazonas.

I feel so nostalgic right now...

that's one thing i love about my new life here in Europe. it's so easy to get around. Back home in Manila, i would need 90 minutes to travel 7 kilometers...

When I visited my cousins in Poland we got caught in some traffic coming from Warsaw to Ł?dź. The people in this town were protesting that their town was being made part of Ł?dź. So a mass of them were crossing the road and thus blocking cars from going. Periodically they would let some cars pass through.

It made our trip a little longer but I thought it was cool.

When I was a child and we were holidaying in Queensland, we were driving past sugarcane fields for ages. Mum and Dad stopped the car and told me to hop out and pick up a piece off the ground to show my friends at school. Then we came to a quarantine checkpoint. It seemed there was a pest/disease in the sugarcane that they were trying to isolate so we had to hand over the piece. A bit further down the road we stopped to get another piece only to come to another checkpoint. We did this a few times until we gave up. Of course after that point we never saw another checkpoint and the sugarcane fields ended so we could have succeeded.

In some countries you could have just paid a bribe...