profession

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A think that the term "ship" is used for any vessel that floats,  and 
the term boat is  reserved for submarines. 

BTW: I wasn't in the Navy but most of my supervisor's were. (especially 
the ones that knew what they were doing).   All the ex-Navy guys were a 
little anal retentive, but then I was working in various Health Physics 
departments responsible for monitoring the emissions from Nuclear power 
plants. Anal retentive is exactly the quality you're looking for in 
those circumstances....




Joe Allonby wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:veg at dvandva.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     Ships have 3 masts?  What's the definition in this sailless age?
>
>
>     On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Peter E. Zelz wrote:
>
>     > 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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