Talk:General Discussion/@comment-5046483-20141104221921/@comment-25459687-20141107161846

the USN attitude towards the term "battlecruiser" resembles three monkeys in Admiral's uniforms, one covering its mouth, one covering its ears, one covering its eyes.

"speak no battlecruiser, hear no battlecruiser, see no battlecruiser."

of course, after Jutland, the concept of battlecruisers were in bad odor with many countries. Still, it's amusing to see how far the USN took to avoid using the term on ships that were clearly battlecruisers or were designed for the same basic role. :-)

queek, uncle of monkeys.