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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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I will only fight the great evil if it's "7h3 gr347 3v1l".
Oh, yeah, and everything I know about relationships, I've learned from shoujo manga. Is that bad? Well, it doesn't help too much because the rule seems to be "fall for the guy with wings" and I don't know any of those. Still, my first rule of dating - the "Allen Schezar Rule" holds true for any girl - "Never date a guy prettier than you are".
Eh, I'm weird. I embrace it. I live it, I love it... sigh... I just need to meet the right geek and I'll be happy.
Look at the pitch of the ship, and the general ugliness of that water. There was all manner of bad s#!t happening there. That is not happy water.
[sigh] The Bering Sea, and the Gulf of Alaska. A place that breaks ships. Just breaks them. In half.
Yeah that seems to be a pretty good rule... er, for women...
Well at least you did not get your lessons from shonen love stories... That might not be good. Unless you are an alien... I am not sure but I think someone would have mentioned it by now if you were.
Although it is not like going for the one with wings got here vary far...
Shonen love stories? Um, no... shoujo for relationships, shonen for action, but the best stories have a little of both.
I have often wondered if I am an alien. It would explain some things. But I have reason to believe that I am, in fact, mostly human. Or mostly harmless? Whatever.
That's really somethin'.
Wow, that's intense.
Yah... ships breakin' in half... not something you see every day. Except in the Bering. That place breaks ships all the time, though mostly it doesn't make the news.
It's just a bad place for ships to be. Problem is, it's right smack on the great circle route from Seattle to Hong Kong.
Wow. That place is amazingly gorgeous, so of course it must be extra deadly...
That's a good way to put it.
There is nothing about Alaska that isn't just absolutely gorgeous. Ten thousand foot mountains that just jump up out of the sea straight up...
There's a place in the inland passage where the channel between the islands is only about a hundred yards wide, but the mountains on either side are thousands of feet high, and yet the channel is several hundred feet deep.
Big ships run through there, and you feel like the ship is brushing the trees on either side, but the beaches are steep and they just drop off quick.
Suddenly I'm pining for the fjords.
Good Morning, Hole!
" The Bering Sea, and the Gulf of Alaska. A place that breaks ships. Just breaks them. In half. "
I've heard or read somewhere that the water there so shallow in places that in large seas a ship's stern can hit bottom when climbing a swell or plow into it when riding down one. Is that true?
HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!
That last one - the CH-47 - that looks like the one helicopter I've ever ridden in. It was like a flying bus. Really long - had benches on both sides inside for troops. Is that it?
It was still a thrill. It was a test flight to check...something, I can't remember what, and they let a few of us go along. The back was open, so you could see out and down. We had to wear a web belt with a line that connected to rings in the floor...so we couldn't fall even if we were stoopid enough to walk out the end.
It was just as the sun was going down, right along the coast of Italy. Only about a twenty minute flight, but I'll always, always remember it.
LOL!
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