Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for March 27, 2012

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    Llewellenbruce  over 12 years ago

    That’s a different way to play Fetch .

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    doc white  over 12 years ago

    Watch where you drop that Henery.

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    Peabody-Martini  over 12 years ago

    There have been rumors for years that somewhere out there is a video of a Navy fighter plane over Vietnam racing a shell fired from the USS New Jersey. I don’t know that its real or even possible but that would be totally Bad@ss. This strip reminds me of that.

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    revisages  over 12 years ago

    can you call the cannonball, wise advisor with teeth in the law?

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    King_Shark  over 12 years ago

    Perfect missile defence shield.

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    a_hemant  over 12 years ago

    Cannon Ball Run !!!

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    maestrabella67  over 12 years ago

    Too cute!

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    Dave Thorby  over 12 years ago

    Is the Wizard breaking the fourth wall and talking to the audience?I don’t believe I’ve seen this in this strip before.

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    JollyRoger56  over 12 years ago

    Let’s hope Wiz never bringd Henry to the battlefield. We wouldn’t want him chasing all those canonballs now, do we?

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    finkd  over 12 years ago

    Henry’s flying because he doesn’t like dragon his feet.

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    Sir Osis of Liver  over 12 years ago

    They have magic, they have a fire-breathing air force – literally -and they have artillery, and yet they still get invaded from time to time by those pesky Huns. Something is awfully wrong here! Must be with the highest level in their chain of command, if you ask me…

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 12 years ago

    …ball?

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    colcam  over 12 years ago

    There are a number of photographs and movies of all sixteen inch guns being fired simultaneously at the same target, and in no firing did the ship displace more than nineteen inches of rocking movement.

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    Tin Can Twidget  over 12 years ago

    One time when the USS New Jersey was on station during the Korean Conflict, an Army spotter was calling in singlle rounds. Somebody decided they needed a pictute of BB-62 in action, so they sent up a helicopter to take the picture and fired all nine cannon broadside. How would you like to be that spotter? As I recall, it cost the taxpayers about $60,000 for that picture for the papers.

    I have also been told that when all the 16" are fired broadside ti will move the ship about 2 feet sideways in the water.

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    DGWillie  over 12 years ago

    Yeah, that’s a fetch until he drops the ball on your foot…

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    piloti  over 12 years ago

    2700 FPS is the muzzle velocity, about 2.4 Mach. The round slows down considerably in flight, and is visible in many instances. It’s entirely possible that an F4, F8, or A5 could pace a projectile in flight near the end of its travel.

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    tduffy  over 12 years ago

    http://blog.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/iowabroadside.jpg

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    RalphZIggy  over 12 years ago

    The muzzle velocity of the 16 inchers was 2700 feet per second, and the terminal velocity about 1600 feet per second (into the ground!). the F-14 can do 2260 feet per second, so a weird movie possible (projectile overtakes plane, then falls behind and down).

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    BigChiefDesoto  over 12 years ago

    In a booklet entitled “US Navy War Photographs”, I have a picture of the Missouri taken from another ship during WWII where she is firing her six forward 16 inch “rifles” and you can actually see all six of the 16 inch projectiles in air about the ship’s length distance from the ship.

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