Comments on: Google Query of the Year http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/01/09/google-query-of-the-year/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:48:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: b2 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/01/09/google-query-of-the-year/comment-page-2/#comment-312260 b2 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:20:30 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=7070#comment-312260 Oh...I thought the winner of the 2008 CIC's trophy was to lead the inauguration parade, too..I guess the Casons are leading again, eh? Makes sense sorta. After all, Washington was Commander of the Continental Army. However, I'll bet if George tried to task John Paul Jones during the revolution, Jones would have told hin to pack sand! Nit picking twits all, 'specially Pedantic-Pecker Head...er ..Wood, knock on. BTW, the Coast Guard is not a 'service', it's a PR organization. Gomer1 Oh…I thought the winner of the 2008 CIC’s trophy was to lead the inauguration parade, too..I guess the Casons are leading again, eh? Makes sense sorta. After all, Washington was Commander of the Continental Army. However, I’ll bet if George tried to task John Paul Jones during the revolution, Jones would have told hin to pack sand!

Nit picking twits all, ‘specially Pedantic-Pecker Head…er ..Wood, knock on.

BTW, the Coast Guard is not a ‘service’, it’s a PR organization.

Gomer1

]]> By: RetRsvMike http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/01/09/google-query-of-the-year/comment-page-2/#comment-311825 RetRsvMike Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:35:59 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=7070#comment-311825 Snake: no, no, none stolen... perfectly willing to have someone else chortling along. ...good to know someone else was watching for the correct answer to be profoundly apparent. Snake: no, no, none stolen… perfectly willing to have someone else chortling along.

…good to know someone else was watching for the correct answer to be profoundly apparent.

]]> By: Snake Eater http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/01/09/google-query-of-the-year/comment-page-2/#comment-311787 Snake Eater Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:15:02 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=7070#comment-311787 RRM, Sorry to steal your thunder...I just could'nt resist teeing-up these unaware gomers a bit. Best RRM, Sorry to steal your thunder…I just could’nt resist teeing-up these unaware gomers a bit. Best

]]> By: RetRsvMike http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/01/09/google-query-of-the-year/comment-page-2/#comment-311730 RetRsvMike Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:07:45 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=7070#comment-311730 thank you Snake. i was actually going to wait until after the parade to demonstrate the correct answer. thank you Snake. i was actually going to wait until after the parade to demonstrate the correct answer.

]]> By: Snake Eater http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/01/09/google-query-of-the-year/comment-page-2/#comment-311679 Snake Eater Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:29:35 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=7070#comment-311679 Not that it really matters...especially if your'e a take no prisioners vet of the Senior Service...but I'd strongly recommend that you- all reserve judgement on this matter until Barry's big parade next Tuesday and you eyeball the service connection of the ... lead/first/ senior marching unit...trust me on this... and all will be revealed at that time. Best Not that it really matters…especially if your’e a take no prisioners vet of the Senior Service…but I’d strongly recommend that you- all reserve judgement on this matter until Barry’s big parade next Tuesday and you eyeball the service connection of the … lead/first/ senior marching unit…trust me on this… and all will be revealed at that time. Best

]]> By: AW1 Tim http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/01/09/google-query-of-the-year/comment-page-2/#comment-311514 AW1 Tim Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:57:22 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=7070#comment-311514 Umm, Not so fast there, QM.. The Coast Guard was actually a sort of here & there service, to wit: ------------------------------- From: American Military Equipage, 1851-1872, by Frederick P. Todd. Charles Scribner’s Sons, NY, 1974 PP 551, paras 1&2 The commencement of our period found the Revenue-Marine (later to become the U.S.Coast Guard) at a low point in its career. Returned to the Treasury Department following the War with Mexico, its fleet had shrunk to eight cutters and its administration had become dissipated among local seaport politicians. One of the few bright spots of these years was the launching of the steam cutter Harriet Lane, a highly successful vessel destined to lead the service out of the age of sail. The Civil War brought the Revenue-Marine again under Navy control, and with this came widespread action and a substantial increase in vessels. All the while the cutters did not lose sight of their older mission of revenue protection. In 1863 it became known by law as the Revenue Cutter Service, although the new designation does not seem to have been generally used for some years thereafter. Following the war, the Revenue-Marine returned to direct Treasury Department control, where it remained a civilian agency ------------------------------------------ Just sayin'..... Umm,

Not so fast there, QM..

The Coast Guard was actually a sort of here & there service, to wit:
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From: American Military Equipage, 1851-1872, by Frederick P. Todd. Charles Scribner’s Sons, NY, 1974

PP 551, paras 1&2

The commencement of our period found the Revenue-Marine (later to become the U.S.Coast Guard) at a low point in its career. Returned to the Treasury Department following the War with Mexico, its fleet had shrunk to eight cutters and its administration had become dissipated among local seaport politicians. One of the few bright spots of these years was the launching of the steam cutter Harriet Lane, a highly successful vessel destined to lead the service out of the age of sail.

The Civil War brought the Revenue-Marine again under Navy control, and with this came widespread action and a substantial increase in vessels. All the while the cutters did not lose sight of their older mission of revenue protection. In 1863 it became known by law as the Revenue Cutter Service, although the new designation does not seem to have been generally used for some years thereafter. Following the war, the Revenue-Marine returned to direct Treasury Department control, where it remained a civilian agency
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Just sayin’…..

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