I’ve nothing substantive to add. But I do like all the literate references to sea battles. The Bismarck, the Graf Spree (scuttled in the Rio de la Plata!), etc. Where the heck else would you find people throwing out casual allusions to this stuff?

It reminds me of the time a friend and I were watching 4th of July fireworks. We’d call out the names of battles to correspond to the size and impressiveness of each salvo. “Operation Torch!” “D-Day!” “Coral Sea!” “Pearl Harbor!” “Antietam!”

Then if a dud came : “Gadsden Purchase!”