From: V SCHWARTZ (vsaws@optonline.net)
Date: Tue Jan 10 2006 - 04:19:47 PST
I think CECIL ADAMS must be a frequent writer to this list. He explains
things with a very familiar ring to his definition.
----- Original Message -----
From: "M151" <m151@cox.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
> From a web source called "the straight dope" (no puns intended)
> Difference between a ship and a boat
> http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_256.html
> ==========================================
> David Brubaker
> MVPA # 18115
> KCØNZN
> Owner - M151A2
> http://members.cox.net/~m151/
> Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit
> materiari?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glen Closson" <glen_closson@earthlink.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 6:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
>
>
>> So the dinghy is a boat, unless it carries a small plastic bathtub toy
>> boat, then its a ship. But then what is your sloop be called? It would
>> carry a ship that carried a boat.
>>
>> This is too confuzin.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>>From: Dave J <sd0044@gwtc.net>
>>>Sent: Jan 9, 2006 3:42 PM
>>>To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>, Glen Closson
>>><glen_closson@earthlink.net>
>>>Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
>>>
>>>Well I guess my 21 foot Aquarius sloop is a "ship" then instead of a
>>>"boat"
>>>as she carries a dinghy too. Gee the things I learn here are
>>>outstanding
>>>(grin).
>>>
>>>Dave J
>>>==================================
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Glen Closson" <glen_closson@earthlink.net>
>>>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>>>Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 4:16 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
>>>
>>>
>>>> So a life raft is a boat and not a ship, correct?
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> >From: MV <MV@dc9.tzo.com>
>>>> >Sent: Jan 9, 2006 2:54 PM
>>>> >To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>>>> >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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>>>
>>>
>>
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