From: m35prod@optonline.net
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 19:02:53 PST
I take exception to your assertions that:
I am not regular.
(and)
I make use of fants.
I have a very satisfying BM every AM, and I would NEVER be caught using a fant.
APB
----- Original Message -----
From: V SCHWARTZ <vsaws@optonline.net>
Date: Monday, January 9, 2006 6:21 pm
Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
> Dave, Arthur Is a well informed individual who also picks up
> useful 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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