Gordin wrote: >> This is why I stopped skiing. That cold weather can be humiliating. >> >> http://tinyurl.com/8m5382 >> > > Oh My! > First there's an email in my in basket from Tord about some Danish mailman > with ice up his arse and then this. > I may have to reconsider my membership Paddlewise, you've no idea our > shocking these accounts are to my Victorian sensibilities!! Just an addendum: The guy was a Swedish official, who was ordered to go to Gotland in the middle of Baltic with the first post boat for the season. The gang- pressed farmers who acted as crew on the post boat (the official post was worth more than a few farmers well-being). To us modern people this is amazing, that free men could be forced to help (and supply the boat as well), but mail (today phone, email and fax) is always very important, more important than people to governments: Remember that till the 1940's the main use for transatlatic flights were as postal service - the famed Imperial Airways flying boats carried many tons of mail, but only a handful, or two, of passengers (about as many crew men as passengers!). -- Be Yourself _at_ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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