From: V SCHWARTZ (vsaws@optonline.net)
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 15:21:45 PST
Dave, Arthur Is a well informed individual who also picks up useful tidbits
----- Original Message -----
> Arthur,
from regular guys and is able to make use of our fants as well. We are all
well served by those like him.
From: "MV" <MV@dc9.tzo.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
>
> Where do you get these facts from??? Or is that common knowledge in your
> neck of the woods?
>
> Do dingy's count? Rubber rafts? (;->)
>
> Dave - Aka Lefty
>
>
>
> m35prod@optonline.net wrote:
>> 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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