profession

[Joe Allonby]

I assumed it had something to do with displacement. 100 tons or something
like that.

What's the answer, Peter?

On 8/4/06, the Robot Vegetable <veg at dvandva.org> wrote:
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> Ships have 3 masts?  What's the definition in this sailless age?
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> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Peter E. Zelz wrote:
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> > CFO of a private high school.  In a previous life, I did electronic
> > intelligence work in the Navy.  Rode a lot of ships and boats (Navy
> people
> > will know the difference).  Getting ready for a submarine trip always
> > involved procuring lots of stuff to read; generally the thicker, the
> > better.  Stumbled across a copy of GR in the Stars & Stripes bookstore
> in
> > Naples, Italy.  At that point, I'd never heard of Pynchon.  It was thick
> > enough to make the grade, and the jacket blurb made it sound suitably
> > distracting.  Been crazy about our Pynch ever since.
> >
> > z
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