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USS Montana- Funny Commercial
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seen it, but did you know this was based on a true story?
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Silva (a Swedish outdoors company) made a commercial in which the USS Montana [2] (visually a cruiser at best, but the commercial says "second largest ship in the North Atlantic fleet" which is also fictional as the North Atlantic Fleet has not existed since 1906) demands a lighthouse to change its course. This is based on an urban legend that has been attributed to many ships, including several other non-existent US Navy ships. According to Snopes: "It ain't true. Not only does the Navy disclaim it, the anecdote shows up 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."
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I have that book.
PS the commercial was pretty funny...hahaha
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maybe...but I was told it was based on a true story
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