From: MV (MV@dc9.tzo.com)
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 14:54:25 PST
Arthur,
Where do you get these facts from??? Or is that common knowledge in
Do dingy's count? Rubber rafts? (;->)
Dave - Aka Lefty
m35prod@optonline.net wrote:
your neck of the woods?
> A ship is a vessel large enough to carry another vessel. (Or designed to do so) Therefore, when crusty old Gene Hackman, in "Crimson Tide", says "Anyone who can't handle the stress can leave the SHIP right now..." he is committing what is known in the film trade as a factual error. (See, for example, the website www.IMDB.com, and search your favorite movies for factual errors and continuity errors). Submarines could, physically, carry another vessel, but they don't, so they are boats, not ships. Boat, Patrol Torpedo, or PT Boat, carries no other boat, so it's a boat, not a ship. Same for Boat, Patrol, River; and Craft, Patrol, Fast ("Swift boat").
>
> We don't brag when our boat comes in. We brag when our ship comes in. Your ship has come in when you can call your boat a ship.
>
> Got it now?
>
> APB (Bloom, Arthur Paul)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: timothy.smith1@att.net
> Date: Monday, January 9, 2006 2:05 pm
> Subject: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
>
>
>>I hereby acknowledge receipt of various emails explaining the
>>difference between a PBR & a Swift boat. Whatever the name, it's
>>a really neat looking boat. (Or is it a "ship"? Whatever!)
>>
>>Now if some of you salty old sea-dogs can explain to me why the
>>little round windows on the starboard side are called "port"
>>holes, I'll be completely satisfied.
>>
>>(grins)
>>TJ
>>
>>"There exists no sporting event whose entertainment value cannot
>>be vastly improved by the introduction of a series of randomly
>>placed land-mines."
>>
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