Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote: >I was actually referring to Columbus, sailing to the west in order to find a >shorter way to the Indies, in spite of the 'rule' that he would reach the end >of earth and fall off.
Reminds me of that little tongue-in-cheek club 'Flat Earth' ran by us young guys in school and student dorms. Boosted by lots of booze, we have listed reasons [1] why the earth was really really flat, pancake flat, not round. Posters with those 'reasons' were placed, but teared off by concerned adults thinking a weird cult has been brewing somewhere... ;-) Of course I later read some of those Terry Pratchet parodies, something about a world sitting on giant elephants, all supported by a turtle. ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - I wish I kept those funny 'reasons' for archival retrieval later, but I remember that we were really worried about the beer vats which will reach the end and then fall off without being emptied out by us... LOL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
