From: Bruce C. Beattie (bruce@EECS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 16:13:04 PST
We are also indebted to Arthur for his excruciating sense of humor!
Bruce
V SCHWARTZ wrote:
> Dave, Arthur Is a well informed individual who also picks up useful
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> tidbits from regular guys and is able to make use of our fants as
> well. We are all well served by those like him.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 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...
>
>
>> Arthur,
>>
>> 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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