Andre Lieven wrote:

* * * * Battleships themselves are a bad idea that won't go away.

Well, they're 18 years gone now...

True. But the discussion here and elsewhere goes on.

There are plenty of bad ideas that just hang around almost forever:
"reality shows", "US health care is #1!", and so on. That doesn't
mean that they are either 1) good or 2) true.

* * * * Like the proverbial bad penney! *What about pennies, fo
r that matter?

They make sense/cents ?

LOL! If we didn't have them, we'd have to round off to something
else. The nearest $0.05, nickel?

Dennis