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Magus wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Magus wrote:
>>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>> MartinS wrote:
>>>>> Blinky the Shark < @ > wrote:
>>>>>> XS11E wrote:
>>>>>>> Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>>>>>>> XS11E wrote: [...]
>>>>>>>>> I'm one who did because of your asking for an email reply. If
>>>>>>>>> you don't know, that's a major violation of usenet etiquitte.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> /~jkorpela/usenet/
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The main reason is there are always lurkers and others who may
>>>>>>>>> benefit from the answer(s) to your question and if it's
>>>>>>>>> emailed they can't see it, a much less popular reason is that
>>>>>>>>> if the reply isn't posted any mistakes in the reply can't be
>>>>>>>>> corrected.
>>>>>>>> Another - and for me the most important - reason is that it
>>>>>>>> wastes the time of all-but-one of the respondents.
>>>>>>> Next time anyone asks for an email response let's all go to
>>>>>>> email and figure out 5 or more responses and email them to the
>>>>>>> OP but..... let's make all of those 5 or more responses
>>>>>>> incorrect!
>>>>>> Make that a Google Groper, and I'm in. Well, except for the part
>>>>>> that I won't see it. But I'm in in spirit. ;)
>>>>> Doesn't the spirit get diluted underwater?
>>>> Sure, but these highly evololved and supersensitive gills make up
>>>> for the dilution quite [hic] nicely.
>>>>
>>> Um... I'm not sure, and maybe it's better left unmentioned, but
>>> perhaps I should apologize for peeing over the side of the boat the
>>> last time I went salt-water fishing?
>>>
>>> There /was/ a high alcohol content in the copious quantities of the
>>> referenced fluid if that makes any difference...
>>>
>>> Maybe some things are better left unknown...
>>
>> Which ocean?
>
> Which time? And should I include "Seas"?

Well, you said "the last time you went fishing" so I guess I'd be
talking about that time. :)

> [Ex USAF, 10 duty stations in 22 years, various temporary duties in
> many places and vacations... I got around a lot--I didn't go fishing
> in all the listed places, in some I went swimming. I was in the water
> and, well, I was already wet... so I figured I should include them.]

Not to worry. Really, yours is just a drop in an ocean of...well, water
and fish pee.

> Atlantic off Maryland, North Carolina, Florida, and Spain.
>
> Gulf of Mexico off the coasts of Florida and Texas.
>
> Mediterranean off the coasts of Italy, Greece, and Turkey.
>
> Adriatic and Tyrrhenian Seas off the coast of Italy (Tyrrhenian off
> Sicily too).
>
> Pacific off the coasts of California, Hawaii, Guam, and Japan (didn't
> make it to the west coast to the Sea of Japan.)
>
> Yellow Sea off the coast of Korea (Seoul area, not sure if it's still

No wonder it was yellow!

> the yellow sea in the south off Pusan--that one could maybe count as
> either the Sea of Japan or Pacific).
>
> I always wanted to make it to New Zealand and Australia but so far I
> haven't.

Well, the lesson here for me is just ot stay away from the coasts.

Here's my semi-permanent location.

/sharks/

The grey blob is Los Angeles.


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