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Post by kirby101 on Dec 4, 2019 15:47:42 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 4, 2019 16:05:15 GMT -5
Please tell me those were two separate stories, since the USS Constitution was built after the Revolution. Even Disney couldn't be that bad at history. The actual USS Constitution (still a commissioned ship), for comparison...  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 4, 2019 16:10:59 GMT -5
ps Point of trivia-When I was serving in the Navy, my ship made a port visit to Boston and was moored by the Constitution. We rendered honors to it (you do the same to the USS Arizona Memorial, in Pearl Harbor) and then, later, our divers assisted them with conducting an underwater hull survey, to assess repair needs. They were getting timber from the Carolinas, to match original construction. Had we known (we were home ported in Charleston, SC) we could have brought the entire load to them.
The ship sounds reveille with a canon shot! It makes for a rather rude awakening, at 6:00 am.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 4, 2019 16:15:03 GMT -5
codystarbuck , it's a bit of comic book legerdemain. Johnny is still a young boy in 1811 serving as a cabin boy to Isaac Hull on the Constitution, 28 years after the Treat of Paris. Johnny is kinda like the Robin of the early 60s, who had been somewhere between 10 and 13 for twenty-some years. 
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2019 16:43:26 GMT -5
This comic is cover dated 2065 so it's actually going to be on sale in 46 years' time:  (It actually went on sale in 1965). |
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Post by profholt82 on Dec 4, 2019 17:34:08 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 4, 2019 17:38:16 GMT -5
codystarbuck , it's a bit of comic book legerdemain. Johnny is still a young boy in 1811 serving as a cabin boy to Isaac Hull on the Constitution, 28 years after the Treat of Paris. Johnny is kinda like the Robin of the early 60s, who had been somewhere between 10 and 13 for twenty-some years. Let's see, that would make him -24 or 25, when he is working with Paul Revere. |
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Post by foxley on Dec 4, 2019 17:47:44 GMT -5
ps Point of trivia-When I was serving in the Navy, my ship made a port visit to Boston and was moored by the Constitution. I did a double take on reading this, because on a quick scan I initially read this as you were mooned by the Constitution! A very different mental image.  |
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Post by brianf on Dec 4, 2019 17:52:33 GMT -5
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Post by Farrar on Dec 4, 2019 18:01:30 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 4, 2019 18:02:50 GMT -5
ps Point of trivia-When I was serving in the Navy, my ship made a port visit to Boston and was moored by the Constitution. I did a double take on reading this, because on a quick scan I initially read this as you were mooned by the Constitution! A very different mental image. Only after Liberty Call! |
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Dec 4, 2019 18:09:47 GMT -5
I'm replacing my original entry with this:  |
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 4, 2019 18:14:05 GMT -5
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Post by robot1a on Dec 4, 2019 18:19:49 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 4, 2019 18:33:34 GMT -5
codystarbuck , it's a bit of comic book legerdemain. Johnny is still a young boy in 1811 serving as a cabin boy to Isaac Hull on the Constitution, 28 years after the Treat of Paris. Johnny is kinda like the Robin of the early 60s, who had been somewhere between 10 and 13 for twenty-some years. Let's see, that would make him -24 or 25, when he is working with Paul Revere. Right. He was a slow grower. |
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