Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-22 Thread Doug Franklin
graywolf wrote: > Actually I have kind of thought on occasion that we should have an > ongoing general thread name for all this kind of stuff, but it would > just die out and the stuff appear when it did not fit. How could it not? > Thread morphing is an inalienable right, dammit! :-) -- Thank

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-22 Thread John Forbes
I think the question was about the nationality of those born at sea, which by definition is not in the US. John On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:15:45 +0100, Norman Baugher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, not in the US. > Norm > > From: "graywolf" > >> I believe it is the citizenship of th

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-22 Thread Norman Baugher
Unfortunately, not in the US. Norm From: "graywolf" >I believe it is the citizenship of the parents that counts, not where > you were hatched... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 22/09/06, David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, NZ used to do that until just recently (about a year ago, I > think), as people were coming here "on holiday" when they just > happened to be 8.99 months pregnant. Yes, and then due to AUS/NZ reciprocal agreements they'd claim residency In

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread David Mann
On Sep 22, 2006, at 6:59 AM, Bob W wrote: > Depends. Some places let you have citizenship if you were born there. > I think I'm entitled to Australian citizenship, but I've never looked > into it. Yes, NZ used to do that until just recently (about a year ago, I think), as people were coming her

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Adam Maas
Doug Franklin wrote: > Adam Maas wrote: > >> [...] 940 ton Flower Class Corvette, which was pretty much the >> smallest real ocean-going combat vessel. > > For an interesting fictionalized "inside look" at fighting WW2 and the > North Atlantic in a Corvette, look for a book titled "The Cruel Sea"

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread graywolf
Actually I have kind of thought on occasion that we should have an ongoing general thread name for all this kind of stuff, but it would just die out and the stuff appear when it did not fit. How could it not? -- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot P

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread K.Takeshita
On 9/21/06 8:24 PM, "Doug Franklin", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject Line? What's that? It's where?! Wow! Was just so amused how quickly one subject morphs into completely another. Keep on going :-). Ken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Doug Franklin
K.Takeshita wrote: > Lo and behold! I forgot it was the PDML! :-). Subject Line? What's that? It's where?! Wow! :-) -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread K.Takeshita
On 9/21/06 7:59 PM, "Doug Franklin", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [...] 940 ton Flower Class Corvette, which was pretty much the >> smallest real ocean-going combat vessel. > > For an interesting fictionalized "inside look" at fighting WW2 and the > North Atlantic in a Corvette, look for a book

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Doug Franklin
Adam Maas wrote: > [...] 940 ton Flower Class Corvette, which was pretty much the > smallest real ocean-going combat vessel. For an interesting fictionalized "inside look" at fighting WW2 and the North Atlantic in a Corvette, look for a book titled "The Cruel Sea". It's apparently been made into

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Paul Sorenson
Heeeyyy!! I resemble that! -P Scott Loveless wrote: > On 9/21/06, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Har! That means anybody but me, my ancestors came from an unspeakable place. >> >> > > Milwaukee? > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pd

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Cotty
>>> Har! That means anybody but me, my ancestors came from an unspeakable >place. >>> >>> >> >> Milwaukee? > >Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwantysiliogogogoch, Wales. If Milwaukee is the arsehole of the Earth, and Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwantysiliogogogoch, Wales is the

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Cotty
On 21/9/06, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: >They still run a fast ferry between Holyhead and Dublin, I believe. Next >trip over we may fly into Dublin and get the ferry to Wales. Probably >less hassle than going through London. Ahh, this is true. My parents live near Holyhead and hav

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Mark Roberts
Scott Loveless wrote: > On 9/21/06, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Har! That means anybody but me, my ancestors came from an unspeakable place. >> >> > > Milwaukee? Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwantysiliogogogoch, Wales. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http:/

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Scott Loveless
On 9/21/06, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Har! That means anybody but me, my ancestors came from an unspeakable place. > > Milwaukee? -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com Shoot more film! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.n

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread graywolf
estors, > yea even unto the 77th generation, were born in a country whose name > includes one or more phonemes from any language. > > -- > Cheers, > Bob > >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of graywol

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Mark Roberts
Douglas Newman wrote: > --- Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Forget the hovercraft - outdated slow ;-) You want >> to go on the sea cat: > > They don't have those on the Channel any longer, > either! > > Not long after Sea Containers retired the hovercraft, > they shut down Hoverspeed e

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Cotty
On 21/9/06, Douglas Newman, discombobulated, unleashed: >Ah, the lovely EMPRESS OF CANADA! One of my favorite >(and highly under-appreciated) post-war liners. > >She was broken up in 2004, but you can buy a piece of >her at: >http://www.midshipcentury.com/empressofcanada.shtml > >I highly recomme

RE: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Bob W
; To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries! > > I believe it is the citizenship of the parents that counts, not where > you were hatched... > > -- > graywolf > http://www.graywolfphoto.com > http://webpage

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Douglas Newman
--- Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forget the hovercraft - outdated slow ;-) You want > to go on the sea cat: They don't have those on the Channel any longer, either! Not long after Sea Containers retired the hovercraft, they shut down Hoverspeed entirely and sold the SeaCats elsewhere. The

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Douglas Newman
--- Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: << I've also wanted for a long time to do a Europe trip where I fly in and out of England, and take the Channel Tunnel in one direction and the hovercraft ferry in the other >> I'm afraid you're too late - the hovercraft have been retired. Crossing th

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Douglas Newman
--- Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Empress of Canada (CP) in 1964, to Montreal. Ah, the lovely EMPRESS OF CANADA! One of my favorite (and highly under-appreciated) post-war liners. She was broken up in 2004, but you can buy a piece of her at: http://www.midshipcentury.com/empressofcanada.sht

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Adam Maas
Ah, those are dinky little coastal patrol boats, nothing like the ships we were talking about. An SC is 85 tons, less than 1/10th the size of the 940 ton Flower Class Corvette, which was pretty much the smallest real ocean-going combat vessel. The Destroyer Escorts which were the US's primary a

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread graywolf
Subchasers, have fun, http://www.splinterfleet.org/ -- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" --- Adam Maas wrote: > graywolf wrote: >> You can tell the old destroyer guys, because they never

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 22/09/06, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Made in 'Stralia (like Bob W) http://www.incat.com.au/product_fs.html -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftd

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Adam Maas
graywolf wrote: > You can tell the old destroyer guys, because they never set their coffee > mug down for fear it will go flying across the room. BTW, I did not know > the RN had destroyers, I thought the RN called that class of ship a > corvette?* > > *Ah, looked it up a corvette seems to be w

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread graywolf
I believe it is the citizenship of the parents that counts, not where you were hatched... -- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" --- David Mann wrote: > On Sep 21, 2006, at 7:19 PM, Bob W w

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread graywolf
You will get over it in a couple of days -- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" --- Doug Franklin wrote: > Douglas Newman wrote: >> --- Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I don't mind he

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Cotty
On 21/9/06, Doug Franklin, discombobulated, unleashed: >take the Channel Tunnel in one direction and the hovercraft >ferry in the other to access the mainland from England. The Chunnel is brilliant but anticlimactic. The time taken from driving off the freeway in England, to driving onto the free

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Cotty
Mike, it was Liverpool we embarked from and it was July. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread graywolf
decommissioned, but it was still a great > experience. Oh, and the Bay of Biscay, of ill repute, was a pussy cat! > > John Coyle > Brisbane, Australia > - Original Message - > From: "Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mai

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Doug Franklin
Douglas Newman wrote: > --- Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > << Actually, I'm not sure I'd ever be able to do it at > all. >> > > Don't give up so easily on your dream :-)! > > I know a lot of people who are prone to seasickness > but still will not be deterred from travelling by sea.

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Cotty
On 21/9/06, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: >I remember quite clearly waving them off and watching the Empress moving >to the middle of the Mersy and anchoring. We then went past it on the >ferry back to Birkenhead, even closer than we had been at Pierhead. Yes, I 'm not sure where we g

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread mike wilson
:52:25 GMT > To: "pentax list" > Subject: Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries! > > On 21/9/06, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >Same year my uncle emigrated. What month? > > I'll have to find out. > > -- > > > Cheer

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Cotty
On 21/9/06, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: >Same year my uncle emigrated. What month? I'll have to find out. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail Li

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread mike wilson
> > From: David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/09/21 Thu AM 08:12:17 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries! > > On Sep 21, 2006, at 7:19 PM, Bob W wrote: > > > I was born there, mate, and my Mum

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread mike wilson
> > From: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/09/21 Thu AM 06:42:07 GMT > To: "pentax list" > Subject: Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries! > > On 20/9/06, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >I probably represent the last gen

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread mike wilson
> > From: Douglas Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/09/21 Thu AM 04:29:09 GMT > To: pdml@pdml.net > Subject: Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries! > > --- From: "John Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I travelled, in 1967, from So

Nothing really, was Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Lucas Rijnders
Op Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:12:17 +0200 schreef David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sep 21, 2006, at 7:19 PM, Bob W wrote: > >> I was born there, mate, and my Mum's name's Sheila. > > You know it's bad when even Australia ships you out. > What would you put on your passport if you'd been born on

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Cotty
On 21/9/06, David Mann, discombobulated, unleashed: >What would you put on your passport if you'd been born on a ship in >international waters? Wet. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread David Mann
On Sep 21, 2006, at 7:19 PM, Bob W wrote: > I was born there, mate, and my Mum's name's Sheila. You know it's bad when even Australia ships you out. What would you put on your passport if you'd been born on a ship in international waters? - Dave the landlubber -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Cruising - was Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread John Coyle
tember 21, 2006 2:29 PM Subject: Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries! > --- From: "John Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I travelled, in 1967, from Southampton to St.Helena >> on the Capetown Castle - >> never could make up my mind whether that was a >

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread J and K Messervy
Geez...what a bunch of old farts! :) James - Original Message - From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 8:49 AM Subject: Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries! > Well, I did my firs

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread David Savage
At 02:43 PM 21/09/2006, Cotty wrote: >On 20/9/06, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >I can beat that. I took my first baby steps aboard the Strathnaver > >coming to England from Australia in 1958. > > >Bob - - you're ***Australian*** ?? > > >Oh, I'm so sorry mate. Yes. Yes you are. Dave ;

RE: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-21 Thread Bob W
> > On 20/9/06, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >I can beat that. I took my first baby steps aboard the Strathnaver > >coming to England from Australia in 1958. > > > Bob - - you're ***Australian*** ?? > > > > > > Oh, I'm so sorry mate. > > -- > Gooday! I was born there, mat

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Cotty
On 20/9/06, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: >I can beat that. I took my first baby steps aboard the Strathnaver >coming to England from Australia in 1958. Bob - - you're ***Australian*** ?? Oh, I'm so sorry mate. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastic

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Cotty
On 20/9/06, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: >I probably represent the last generation ever to emigrate to >America by ship. We came over on the Queen Elizabeth I in 1967. Just about! Empress of Canada (CP) in 1964, to Montreal. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People,

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Douglas Newman
--- Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: << Actually, I'm not sure I'd ever be able to do it at all. >> Don't give up so easily on your dream :-)! I know a lot of people who are prone to seasickness but still will not be deterred from travelling by sea. Many people find great relief from the

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Douglas Newman
--- From: "John Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I travelled, in 1967, from Southampton to St.Helena > on the Capetown Castle - > never could make up my mind whether that was a > cruise or a voyage. Line voyage. A good friend of mine was a purserette (as they then called female pursers) aboard U-C

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Doug Franklin
Douglas Newman wrote: > --- Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't mind heavy weather but I would certainly not > cross the Atlantic in mid-winter in a small ship. Actually, I'm not sure I'd ever be able to do it at all. My longest "transit" was a very fair weather run from Port Everglades

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Douglas Newman
--- Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: << I've read so many books about the "U-boat War" in the North Atlantic during WW2 that I've always wanted to do a winter crossing. It'd have to be on something the size of the QE2 or the QM2, though. >> I don't mind heavy weather but I would certainly not c

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Kenneth Waller
g the north Atlantic, taken from several levels above main deck. In some scenes, the fore deck disappears under water due to the rolling waves with the waves breaking over the front 16" turrets ! Kenneth Waller - Original Message - From: "Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Doug Franklin
P. J. Alling wrote: > Modern Destroyers are roughly the size of WWII Cruisers, though more > lightly armored. I wouldn't do a North Atlantic winter crossing in a modern cruiser, much less a WW2 destroyer, or worse yet, a WW2 corvette. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread John Coyle
d the Bay of Biscay, of ill repute, was a pussy cat! John Coyle Brisbane, Australia - Original Message - From: "Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Lapto

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Adam Maas
Depends on the destroyer. The smaller ASW Destroyers like the Canadian Tribal's are the size of a Light Cruiser, and similarly carry no armor, while an Arleigh Burke is the size of a modern cruiser (They're essentially the same size as a Ticonderoga) or a WW2 Heavy Cruiser but carries no armor,

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread P. J. Alling
Modern Destroyers are roughly the size of WWII Cruisers, though more lightly armored. Doug Franklin wrote: >Douglas Newman wrote: > > >>The North Atlantic can be a dark and stormy sea any >>time of year... And it can also be quite pleasant if >>you're lucky. >> >> > >I've read so many boo

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Doug Franklin
Douglas Newman wrote: > [...] it is also the 39th > anniversary of the launching of QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 at > John Brown & Company, Clydebank. Ironically enough, I was there to see the last craft launched from the construction docks at Clydebank in 1994 or 1995. At least that was the story then. S

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Doug Franklin
Douglas Newman wrote: > The North Atlantic can be a dark and stormy sea any > time of year... And it can also be quite pleasant if > you're lucky. I've read so many books about the "U-boat War" in the North Atlantic during WW2 that I've always wanted to do a winter crossing. It'd have to be on so

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Douglas Newman
--- Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: << I probably represent the last generation ever to emigrate to America by ship. >> Well, by 1967, not only were few people emigrating to America by ship, but few people were emigrating from Western Europe to America by any means, except perhaps some fro

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Scott Loveless
On 9/20/06, Doug Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 20, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > > Norman Baugher wrote: > > > >> From: "Mark Roberts" > >>> Oh yes! I probably represent the last generation ever to emigrate to > >>> America by ship. We came over on the Queen Elizabeth I i

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Doug Brewer
On Sep 20, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Norman Baugher wrote: > >> From: "Mark Roberts" >>> Oh yes! I probably represent the last generation ever to emigrate to >>> America by ship. We came over on the Queen Elizabeth I in 1967. It >>> was, I believe, the next-to-last crossing the ship

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread John Forbes
Well, I did my first trans-continental flight in 1952, in a DC3, of course. Beat that. John On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:07:20 +0100, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >First, let's get this straight: if you cross the >> >Atlantic by sea, it's a CROSSING, not a CRUISE. >> >> Oh yes! I probabl

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread John Forbes
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:07:20 +0100, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >First, let's get this straight: if you cross the >> >Atlantic by sea, it's a CROSSING, not a CRUISE. >> >> Oh yes! I probably represent the last generation ever to emigrate to >> America by ship. We came over on the Queen

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Mark Roberts
Norman Baugher wrote: >From: "Mark Roberts" >> Oh yes! I probably represent the last generation ever to emigrate to >> America by ship. We came over on the Queen Elizabeth I in 1967. It >> was, I believe, the next-to-last crossing the ship made before Cunard >> Lines ended transatlantic service.

RE: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Bob W
> > >First, let's get this straight: if you cross the > >Atlantic by sea, it's a CROSSING, not a CRUISE. > > Oh yes! I probably represent the last generation ever to emigrate to > America by ship. We came over on the Queen Elizabeth I in 1967. It > was, I believe, the next-to-last crossing the sh

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Norman Baugher
You're that old Mark? Norm From: "Mark Roberts" > Oh yes! I probably represent the last generation ever to emigrate to > America by ship. We came over on the Queen Elizabeth I in 1967. It > was, I believe, the next-to-last crossing the ship made before Cunard > Lines ended transatlantic service.

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Mark Roberts
Douglas Newman wrote: >First, let's get this straight: if you cross the >Atlantic by sea, it's a CROSSING, not a CRUISE. Oh yes! I probably represent the last generation ever to emigrate to America by ship. We came over on the Queen Elizabeth I in 1967. It was, I believe, the next-to-last crossin

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread Douglas Newman
--- graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: << The North Atlantic is a dark and stormy sea in the wintertime. >> The North Atlantic can be a dark and stormy sea any time of year... And it can also be quite pleasant if you're lucky. << Thank you for joining out "Masochists Special" winter cruise." >>

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread graywolf
ywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 2006/09/19 Tue PM 11:25:18 GMT >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries! >> >> Now I wonder why the prices are so much less in the middle of the winter? > > People are scar

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread graywolf
]> >> Date: 2006/09/19 Tue PM 11:25:18 GMT >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries! >> >> Now I wonder why the prices are so much less in the middle of the winter? > > People are scared of icebergs. Don't the

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-20 Thread mike wilson
> From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/09/19 Tue PM 11:25:18 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries! > > Now I wonder why the prices are so much less in the middle of the winter? People are scared of icebergs.

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-19 Thread graywolf
Now I wonder why the prices are so much less in the middle of the winter? -- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" --- Cotty wrote: > On 19/9/06, Scott Loveless, discombobulated, unleashed: >

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-19 Thread Cotty
On 19/9/06, Scott Loveless, discombobulated, unleashed: >You might want to book your travel arrangements for GFM now. > >http://cruises.affordabletours.com/Transatlantic/ Oh I get it - a wise guy huh!! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|ht

Re: Now Virgin Bans Some Laptop Batteries!

2006-09-19 Thread Scott Loveless
On 9/19/06, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could be useful info for travellers: > > > > You might want to book your travel arrangements for GFM now. http://cruises.affordabletours.com/Transatlantic/ -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.c