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• lizac 25 Posts

  Tue, Feb 3 2015 12:56 PM

  wondering if anyone else has problems with swing meter not letting you hit the ding ? it does the scale pull back but wont allow a click on the mouse at the ding , it just does a free swing without contact on the ball

• ScottHope 10,623 Posts

  Wed, Feb 4 2015 12:45 AM

  For starters, I'd try another browser.

• oneeyedjohn 9,589 Posts

  Wed, Feb 4 2015 2:14 AM

  My god , it's true,.

  When a Canadian emigrates to the USA the overall IQ of America drops.

• justacowboy 1,338 Posts

  Wed, Feb 4 2015 6:11 AM

  oneeyedjohn:

  My god , it's true,.

  When a Canadian emigrates to the USA the overall IQ of America drops.

  omg  too funny

• ZioMio 4,680 Posts

  Wed, Feb 4 2015 7:13 AM

  This is the transcript of the actual radio conversation of a US Naval ship with the Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in Oct 1995. Radio conversation released by chief of naval operations 10/10/95. 
  
  Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision. 
  
  Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the north. 
  
  Canadians: Negative. you will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision. 
  
  Americans: This is the captain of a US navy ship. I say again, divert your course. 
  
  Canadians: No. I say again, divert your course. 
  
  Americans: This is the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln. the second biggest ship in the United States Atlantic fleet. We are accompanied by three destroyers, three cruisers and numerous support vessels. I demand that you change your course 15 degrees north, that's one five degrees north, or counter measures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship. 
  
  Canadians: We are a lighthouse. Your call.

• Mushy01 2,567 Posts

  Wed, Feb 4 2015 7:48 AM

  Lmfao!

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Wed, Feb 4 2015 8:57 AM

  I wonder what  next assignment that captain of the USS Lincoln got after that encounter?

  The US Navy does not suffer foolish  officers gladly. 

  Optimizing your computer for good swing meter performance

• ScottHope 10,623 Posts

  Wed, Feb 4 2015 9:18 AM

  ApexPC:

  I wonder what  next assignment that captain of the USS Lincoln got after that encounter?

  Lighthouse glass cleaner perhaps?

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Wed, Feb 4 2015 9:41 AM

  Some people will believe just about anything on the internet!

  It is a funny story, but just that, a tall tale.  Per Snopes.com:

  Snopes.com:

  It ain't true. Not only does the Navy disclaim it, the anecdote appears in a 1992 collection of jokes and tall tales. Worse, it appears in Stephen Covey's 1989 The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and he got it from a 1987 issue of Proceedings, a publication of the U.S. Naval Institute.
  
  It's far older than that, as this excerpt from a 1939 book shows:

  The fog was very thick, and the Chief Officer of the tramp steamer was peering over the side of the bridge. Suddenly, to his intense surprise, he saw a man leaning over a rail, only a few yards away.
  
  "You confounded fool!" he roared. "Where the devil do you think your ship's going? Don't you know I've got the right of way?"
  
  Out of the gloom came a sardonic voice:
  
  "This ain't no blinkin' ship, guv'nor. This 'ere's a light'ouse!"

  Even older, a one-panel 1931 cartoon that appeared in the Canadian newspaper The Drumheller Review (but listing The Humorist of London, England as its source) displayed two men arguing through megaphones, one standing on the bridge of a ship, the other on the exterior walkway of a lighthouse, above this bit of dialogue:

  Skipper: Where are you going with your blinking ship?
  
  The Other: "This isn't a blinking ship. It's a lighthouse!"

  There's one born every minute......
  

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Wed, Feb 4 2015 9:43 AM

  lizac:

  wondering if anyone else has problems with swing meter not letting you hit the ding ? it does the scale pull back but wont allow a click on the mouse at the ding , it just does a free swing without contact on the ball

  Sometimes your cursor is on 1 of the function buttons to the right of the meter(sound) and you can't swing, it just runs through...same thing if you move the cursor to the edge of the browser.