Re: [Paddlewise] Nomenclature

From: <dldecker_at_se.mediaone.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 11:57:31 -0500
>>Ooopps - I may not be too smart and this may be off
>>the topic  but there's no such word as 'dumming'. Try
>>'dumbing'. Happy paddling!
>
>With a handle like "Cutie Pie" one should have no trouble seeing humour in
>the spelling in context with the sentence. Subtle, I know but this is a
>subtle group.
>
>Richard wrote:
>
>>A Great Lakes Freighter is a boat, not a ship, despite what the designers
>might
>>say.
>
>Ahh Yes, but only if it remains on the Great Lakes. Once it passes out of
>the lakes and into the ocean it grows up and becomes a ship. 
>Cheers,
>
>John Winters

Stir stir stir the pot Johnny boy

Dana
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