"Poll update-poi," in that case, surely. :)

That said, Yūdachi put in a very strong showing here, and the poll roster was already the "short list", so I wouldn't be at all surprised to see her too, in one context or another, before too long.

--G.
Poi.
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Our numbers grow as planned-poi.

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"V, did you do something foolish?"

"Yes, and it was glorious-poi."

OK, that just gives me the image of Yūdachi replacing Nagara as the Fog's clonetrooper/army-builder figure. Or getting all Agent Smith on low-ranking Abyssals instead of sinking them.

"You!"

"Yeees. Me, me, me-poi."

"... Me too-poi."

>"Yes, and it was glorious-poi."

snrk. Didn't notice this until I went to clip off your .sig, nice touch.

--G.
"... More-poi."
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"Well, you keep asking for it...."

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

no, I didn't go to great lengths researching a poi joke, not at all.
"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

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Eh, it's the Hawaiian version of mashed potatoes. It tastes like whatever you eat with it (I had it with some spiced fish, and was not displeased), fills you up, and has a similar nutritional value.

Aaaand now that I've completely derailed the conversation, I'll leave and let y'all go back to talking about anthropomorphized naval vehicles.

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

Sure, now that you've poi-soned the conversation....

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Aaaand this is where I collapse into a helpless gigglefit.

>>"Yes, and it was glorious-poi."
>
>snrk. Didn't notice this until I went to clip off your .sig, nice
>touch.

Why thank you, sir.

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"V, did you do something foolish?"

"Yes, and it was glorious."

"Yūdachi?"

"She's not reading like a destroyer."

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Mr. Scott! Set phasers on ohmygod awwwww.

--G.
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Imagine, for a moment, being that guy. Not only did you just fuck up and fire a live torpedo at the president, the battleship he's on is now toying with the idea of sinking your destroyer. That is a banner bad day at the office.

Accompanying image: Nagato, arms folded, glaring daggers at Yūdachi, who looks mortified and sheepish, while all the other destroyers edge fearfully away from her.

"Sorry! My bad-poi!"

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"I dodged that-poi!"

Somehow I can only envisage an appropriately shocked Ship-Girl pointing at the result in protest and then slinking away under a cloud of moe-depression when it's judged that yes, she's been destroyed no matter how implausible it might be.

* the plane hit the water and blew up underwater, right beneath the Porter

That's a very meta image. I see it less as moé-depression and more as pouty pique. "I'm not even going to say my heart-rending death line this time. This is bullshit-poi."

--G.
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And their attempt to warn the Iowa about that torpedo, thanks to orders for radio silence except under extreme conditions (And apparently, 'I fired a torpedo at the President' wasn't considered extreme enough for them), was by light signals. Which they proceeded to screw up. Several times, before giving in and getting on the radio.

I don't think Iowa's captain thought it was an assassination plot. I think he just thought Porter and her crew were too dangerous to everyone else to be left alive. Then the ship made it to port, the entire crew were arrested, and things did not improve for them...

Although I do love the fact that Roosevelt's response to this was to ask that his wheelchair be taken over to the railing, because damn, he wanted to see the torpedo coming!

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

--G.
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And, yes, the first two US destroyers to turn up are Samuel B Roberts and William D Porter. 'Sammy' -really- doesn't like to talk about Samar, she feels she hasn't earned the respect and hero worship that people give her over it.

As for the poor kanmusu the audience has nicknamed "Wee Willy Worthless", well, poor Billy's a nervous wreck, too afraid of repeating her past mistakes to be able to so much as shoot accurately. Unless you throw her into a confused melee in an anti-air role....

Speaking of which, this is not really surprising:

Number two suggestion after just the name. Ah, the Internet. :)

--G.
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"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

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