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Matt, just cause I love pointing out when your not exactly right.....Grant wasnt ALWAYS the Union general....they had something like 5....McClellan, Meade, Grant, and I dont remember the others.
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I was referring to General Lee in Dukes of Hazard.
Don't get me wrong i'm not totally racist about that show because it is about white trash driving around in cars. It did give the world that famous Daisy Dukes!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Plus, has anyone ever noticed the US Navy's naming system....their warships have some of the dumbest names I've ever heard. Compared to some of those, Sao Paolo sounds very reasonable.
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Yes, I agree entirely, naming a ship after a sea or body of water is probably a good idea. Captain, I want you to take the Adriatic Sea to Phillipine Sea . A...Sir...My ship is the Phillipine Sea. lol
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Deep6: You listed the generals who fought in the eastern campaign. The Union had a great many more generals than the ones you listed. Federation Shipmaster: Sodom is the origin of sodomy. (It would be equivalent to naming a ship the USS Maquis de Sade who had his name become sadism.)
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Trinculo, wrong.....the ones i listed were some of the generals who were given command of the ENTIRE Union army, just as Lee was given command of the ENTIRE Confederate army.
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Hooker was another Northern General, and thee was another one before Grant. McClellan had the job twice. One General won the battle at Getteysburg, but failed to pursue the confedertes after the battle, and was removed, Beauregard maybe. The "Camp Girls" that followed Hooker's army were called Hookers, and still are today.
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Of course, the funny thing about Sodom is that there's no concrete mention of anything resembling the practice of "sodomy" going on IN Sodom.
That's not what "God" blew it up for, a fact often overlooked, as it is inconvenient.
I will say no more on this, unless someone decides to take it to the flameboard.
Continue discussion.
I have no problem with naming a ship Sao Paulo, though I admit the name isn't likely to frighten anybody. (Robin, Space Pirates are a superstitious and cowardly lot...)
And the USS Hoopty? Sounds like a ship even a Pakled could blow out of space. :P
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I appreciate any name of non-US origin for a starship, but I don't like USS Sao Paulo for a Defiant class ship. It sounds rather like an Excelsior or Nebula.
I bet they will name the ship USS Defiant NCC-75XXX.
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