On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:28:05 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

IMHO, the greatest loonietoon that ever posted here, with any intent
to contribute, had to have been jaxashby... and he had mathematical
formulae to prove it.... As ridiculous as Skipper could get, so far as
I know, he never posted a picture of himself in his underwear.... I
guess that is worth *some* credit...

Here are some of my favorite Jaxisms: (direct quotes from his posts)

"By definition, the Earth's surface is planar."
"An ICBM has no navigation system."
"There's no outside reference when using DR to navigate."
"It costs $15,000/year to make 10gals of water/day with a shipboard
watermaker."
"You must use an isp to read a usenet newsgroup."
"The human head can take about a 7 G blow before death becomes
certain."
"A rhumb line is a straight line on any chart, Mercator chart (sic) or
otherwise."
"A rhumb is distance between two points one compass point apart."
"Alternators are (for all practical purposes) capable of only
producing one voltage, no matter the rpm."
"If you can see outside reference points, then you KNOW where you
are..."
"There is no such thing as a north seeking gyro."

Classic

Steve

wrote:


Here's the last thread Jaxashby posted.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.s...ec7dbe606dc62b



Shucks, we got robbed. He disappeared from the sailing
newsgroups a couple of years before that.

DSK

God, I almost miss him.