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G0TEZ > DRAKE 13.05.11 15:20l 42 Lines 1350 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Warren's League...
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From: G0TEZ@GB7CIP.#32.GBR.EU
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Quoting Warren to Pete.
> Speaking of which you make a lousy navigator. You have Drakes coffin
> barely 36 feet from shore, a league is 6 fathoms and a fathom is 6 feet
> but then Jules Verne couldn't count to 20 with his shoes off.
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I didn't see the original bull (E-Mail ?) but I think you got your leagues
and fathoms confused.
As a small boy, Leagues,Fathoms, R0ds,Poles,Perches and Furlongs were
pretty well out of date but we learnt them anyway and a League was 3
Miles, a lot more than 6 Fathoms.
Think of Jules Verne and his Twenty Thousand Leagues Under THe Sea.20 K
time 6 Fathoms would have been a very great depth but 20,000 Leagues as
60,000 miles makes more sense.Old captain Nemo (pron Naymo BTW= L for
Nobody. NOT Neemo) certainly knew how to travel. Verne was a Frenchman but
hadn't got around to using the metric system so he still used fps as well
as pounds and yards.
I suppose that 20,000 Kilometres under the Sea wouldn't have sounded as
good.
Getting back to your quote;
Six leagues from shore would be 18 miles or 30 Km from shore. Sounds O.K.
to me.
73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7CIP
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