"This is a lighthouse. Divert your course!!!"

[elleng]

on Rachel show, 'confrontation' between U.S. navy ship and Canadian lighthouse!!!

[Newsjock]

1. April 1.

http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp

The tale of the self-important aircraft carrier captain getting his well-earned comeuppance at the hands of a plain-speaking lighthouse has been making the rounds on the Internet since early 1996. Most write-ups purport to be transcripts of a 1995 conversation between a ship and a lighthouse as documented by Chief of Naval Operations.

It ain't true. Not only does the Navy disclaim it, the anecdote appears in a 1992 collection of jokes and tall tales. Worse, it appears in Stephen Covey's 1989 The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and he got it from a 1987 issue of Proceedings, a publication of the U.S. Naval Institute.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Old joke. And the punchline is "This is a lighthouse. Your call". n/t

[pinboy3niner]

3. "Your call."

Fake but funny.

[Turbineguy]

4. It's a prevalent disease...

Captainitis.

[Brigid]

5. This is on the Navy's official website.

They felt they needed to put it there in order to debunk it because people think it is true.

[pacalo]

6. Rachel used the fable as an analogy for the barge/ship collision in Galveston.

She played the audio communication between the two vessels as the event unfolded; each continued to refuse to be the one to clear way for the other -- until it was too late to make a difference.