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basilfawlty89 · 36-40, M
Who did what now?
Who's the bright spark?
Who's the bright spark?
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@basilfawlty89 We were having a discussion about the phrase broken arrow. I made the mistake of mentioning that the United States military has lost so many nuclear missiles that they had to come up with a code phrase for it. I clearly underestimated people's ability to take a single phrase completely out of context and focus on it to the exclusion of the rest of the sentence. Next thing I know, I'm getting interrogated as to how many is "so many," as if I had suggested there are dozens out there. All I meant was it has happened enough times that they have a word for it.