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Re: Places where Slocum mentions navigation-related items
From: Dennis Koehler
Date: 2003 Dec 22, 19:40 -0500
From: Dennis Koehler
Date: 2003 Dec 22, 19:40 -0500
Hi George. Please remove me from your mail list....thanks. Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Huxtable"To: Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 7:33 PM Subject: Re: Places where Slocum mentions navigation-related items > When Doug Royer wrote- > > "You guys have a talent for trivialising the momentous and complicateing the > obvious." > > I thought it was fair comment, that could be applied, just as well, to many > of our discussions on this list. > > So I considered that the ensuing slap-down: > > "This sort of comment doesn't do anyone any good, Doug." > > was quite uncalled-for. > > As for the "joke" about his mother, that followed, it seemed to me to be a > childish and disgraceful comment. How satisfying, then, that Doug was able > to make such a devastating riposte about his mother, who must indeed have > been a remarkable lady. > > George. > > ================================================================ > contact George Huxtable by email at george@huxtable.u-net.com, by phone at > 01865 820222 (from outside UK, +44 1865 820222), or by mail at 1 Sandy > Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK. > ================================================================