On 3/10/2013 11:34 AM, True North wrote:
On Sunday, 10 March 2013 12:29:35 UTC-3, John H wrote:

snip...

It would have been a boat ride, not a sailing adventure. This ship had no sails.



I don't suppose you've ever gone 'boating'? When you take out your boat, do you tell all your

friends you're going 'sailing'?



Why not stop looking for ways to be unpleasant?



Salmonbait

Uh huh!
Tell that to all the sailors in the US Navy, landlubber.


Well, hopefully everybody who served in the Navy isn't as sensitive. My
dad would have called them all "soldiers", wonder what they would have
thought of that BTW, he called himself a "soldier", even though his
work was in the Army Air Corps.