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Originally posted by: Flash Gordon
"Would someone with a literature background like to talk about the relevance of the "Caine Mutiny" to all of this?"

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 The Captain . . . losing his "bearings" in a sea of uncertainty, grows ever more arbitrary and tyrannical in his application of discipline. The crew, ever more aware of their captain's paranoia and incompetence, begins to seeth and disobey in small, almost unobtrusive, covert ways. The explosion comes at a climactic moment in a storm when the crew mutinys . . . . Upon return to port the crew is put on trial but it is the Captain who is humiliated and publically revealed to be a small man in a big man's job.

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"And all over a carton of strawberries.  (Can we say "micromanagement?")"

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And those strawberries were really damn good (ymmmm!).

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Originally posted by: friend
"Yeah, and he couldn't stop playing with his balls, either."

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Wasn't Thames holding ball bearings in his hand during his testimony? I thought I saw them.......