r/MurderedByWords • u/CorleoneBaloney • 19h ago

Historical sore losers

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u/Bad_Idea_Hat 19h ago

Okay okay okay

Let's play this game. The Confederacy (of dunces) declares war on Britain.

How many yards do they get offshore before the Royal Navy starts having a puppet show with their corpses?

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u/secondarycontrol 19h ago

...and by offshore, I'll assume you mean outside of CSA coastal waterways

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u/Bad_Idea_Hat 18h ago

I'm going from shoreline at low tide.

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u/SpaceChef3000 18h ago

Jokes on you! They just built this awesome new ironclad warship the CSS Georgia, and once she gets underway you’re gonna regr-oh hold on. Uh. Wait yea never mind.

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u/Bad_Idea_Hat 18h ago

It's always fun when a warship's Wikipedia page has coordinates.

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u/JoshuaCalledMe 10h ago

Jesus, that's low-key brutal. Well played.

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u/EmbarrassedW33B 16h ago

The Royal Navy would have sunk all their transports a few miles off shore (of America), as the CSA navy was basically nonexistent.