Inspiration and little seeds of ideas

[Md139115]

Wasn't there a Pink Panther movie where this happened?

I believe you are referring to this, though it isn’t perfectly accurate:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Shot_in_the_Dark_(1964_film)

And now thanks to you and my marvelously tangential mind, I am picturing the British team being led by Major David Niven.

 

[Burton K Wheeler]

I believe you are referring to this, though it isn’t perfectly accurate:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Shot_in_the_Dark_(1964_film)

And now thanks to you and my marvelously tangential mind, I am picturing the British team being led by Major David Niven.

Nope, it was whichever one where Dreyfuss had a death ray and dissolved the UN building. And then Clouseau slept with the Russian femme fatale assassin. I think.

 

[Japhy]

I only recall the idiot who started it talking about how hilarious it was, and crying and whining when I locked it so he couldn't bump it every day.

I'm mis-remembering then

 

[Md139115]

Nope, it was whichever one where Dreyfuss had a death ray and dissolved the UN building. And then Clouseau slept with the Russian femme fatale assassin. I think.

Oh, darn it all! How did I forget that absolute classic!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pink_Panther_Strikes_Again

 

[moth]

Having been playing through Become Human, I've been tempted to revisit my old 'android loses it and shoots the PM' idea, but... completely different and more about the inevitable intrusion of technology in rural communities and how it's not a bad thing, with less a 'pity the sexbot' direction and more 'imagine if Siri had legs'.

Or something actually AH, like a short TLIA* based on the Tories imploding between 1997-2001.

 

[Japhy]

In the lead-up to the Bismarck's North Atlantic sortie the CO of the Tirpitz attempted to convince the Naval High Command that his ship was sufficiently trained to go on the raid in place of the Prinz Eugen. Interesting enough in and of itself, and that's before one realizes that the heavy cruiser had a shorter range and lower cruising speed then the Super-Battleships which limited tor Bismarck from evading as well as it might have.

My tendency for my eyes to glaze over when confronted with pages of text about gun calibers and bunker fuel purity means that a story about this isn't really in my cards but surely a rivet counter with a narrative streak can do something fun with this.

 

[Md139115]

In the lead-up to the Bismarck's North Atlantic sortie the CO of the Tirpitz attempted to convince the Naval High Command that his ship was sufficiently trained to go on the raid in place of the Prinz Eugen. Interesting enough in and of itself, and that's before one realizes that the heavy cruiser had a shorter range and lower cruising speed then the Super-Battleships which limited tor Bismarck from evading as well as it might have.

My tendency for my eyes to glaze over when confronted with pages of text about gun calibers and bunker fuel purity means that a story about this isn't really in my cards but surely a rivet counter with a narrative streak can do something fun with this.

Yes, they can... but would Prinz Eugen still go?