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Sep. 13th, 2023 02:01 pm... нагадав собі момент з одної з моїх улюблених книжок ("Ґалапаґос" Воннеґута):
... a transcript of the Captain’s performance on The Tonight Show, starring Johnny Carson. On that show, as on all the others, the Captain was dazzling in the gold-and-white uniform he was entitled to wear as an admiral in the Ecuadorian Naval Reserve. The transcript went like this:
( Кілька рядків під катом зовсім нерелевантні, просто, мені подобаються )
CARSON: How big is the Ecuadorian navy?
CAPTAIN: Four submarines. They are always underwater. They never come up.
CARSON: Never come up?
CAPTAIN: Not for years and years.
CARSON: But they keep in touch by radio?
CAPTAIN: No. They maintain radio silence. It’s their own idea. We would be glad to hear from them, but they prefer to maintain radio silence.
CARSON: Why have they stayed underwater so long?
CAPTAIN: You will have to ask them about that. Ecuador is a democracy, you know. Even those of us in the Navy have very wide latitude in what we can or cannot do.
... a transcript of the Captain’s performance on The Tonight Show, starring Johnny Carson. On that show, as on all the others, the Captain was dazzling in the gold-and-white uniform he was entitled to wear as an admiral in the Ecuadorian Naval Reserve. The transcript went like this:
( Кілька рядків під катом зовсім нерелевантні, просто, мені подобаються )
CARSON: How big is the Ecuadorian navy?
CAPTAIN: Four submarines. They are always underwater. They never come up.
CARSON: Never come up?
CAPTAIN: Not for years and years.
CARSON: But they keep in touch by radio?
CAPTAIN: No. They maintain radio silence. It’s their own idea. We would be glad to hear from them, but they prefer to maintain radio silence.
CARSON: Why have they stayed underwater so long?
CAPTAIN: You will have to ask them about that. Ecuador is a democracy, you know. Even those of us in the Navy have very wide latitude in what we can or cannot do.
