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Re: To prevent us from getting TOO serious
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2007 Oct 2, 20:45 -0600
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2007 Oct 2, 20:45 -0600
On 2 Oct 2007, at 8:28 PM, Lu Abel wrote: > Back in 1849, in the time of the California Gold Rush, the Tates Watch > Company of Waltham, Massachusetts decided there was a burgeoning > market > for compasses to be carried by Easterners headed for California. > Since > Tates already made the cases for pocket watches, it was a simple > task to > fill them instead with compasses. The compasses were so bad that > people > often ended up in Canada or Mexico rather than California. This, of > course, is the origin of the expression, "He who has a Tates, is > lost!" Thanks Lu for a great diversion - I got a great chuckle from that! Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
