Original Message: ----------------- From: Charlie Bell char...@culturelist.org Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:10:27 +1000 To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Iran
On 28/06/2009, at 8:15 AM, Dan M wrote: > > Even with reporters locked up in their hotel rooms, I would guess than > marches of tens of thousands would be heard in the hotels. The > types of > reports that are getting out indicate that, if anything, the younger > more > militant aspects of the guard are increasing their power. (I'm > thinking of > the folks who captured a UK ship as an example). >Um... a ship? Do you mean the Marines patrol boat a couple of years >ago? Wasn't a ship. Sorry Charlie. You have to remember that, when I was I kid I was on many a boat longer than 200 meters, with the biggest over 300 meters and > 30k tons. I realize that it wasn't a big ship, but the way I was raised: saltwater=ship, freshwater=boat. Size didn't matter. But that's what I meant, yea. Even in Britian you might have heard the song "the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I was on the Mighty Fitz a number of times and can still close my eyes amd remember the smell of those boats. Dan M. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com