The quote of the day [2]

[HippsieGypsie]

Interesting about Mark Twain. :thumb: So twain means two and he's telling the pilot to mark two furlongs (6 feet) depth in his log book.

Music's the medicine of the mind.
~ John A. Logan

 

[iknownuffin70]

That's right 2 fathoms = (12 feet deep) was considered a safe depth, Its a long way from depth sounders hey.? The leadsman would check every 100 feet or so, or when the pilot called on him to do so. Here is an interesting Glossory


Samuel Clemens' Steamboat Career - Glossary of Sounding Terms

Interesting about Mark Twain. :thumb: So twain means two and he's telling the pilot to mark two furlongs (6 feet) depth in his log book.

Music's the medicine of the mind.
~ John A. Logan

 

[iknownuffin70]

Another thing I meant to ask is are you a musician.??? I was a pro guitarist for over 45 years.

 

[HippsieGypsie]

Too off topic. I'll write you a PM sometime soon.

 

[A Guy]

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.
~Mike Myers

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
~ Robin Williams

 

[A Guy]

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
~Tom Stoppard

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
~ Christopher Morley

 

[HippsieGypsie]

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
~ Mark Twain

 

[A Guy]

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
~Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)

A Guy

 

[Vince53]

I'm sorry if my patriotism offends you. Your lack of a spine offends me.

Gruntsville

 

[David Bailey]

Even a blind hog can find an acorn once in a while.

 

[A Guy]

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
~Bruce Cockburn

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
~ W. Earl Hall

 

[A Guy]

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
~H. L. Mencken

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

"Better lives have been lived in the margins, locked in the prisons and lost on the gallows than have ever been enshrined in palaces."
~ Seth Brodeur

 

[A Guy]

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
~Anonymous

A Guy

 

[A Guy]

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
~Henry David Thoreau

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.
~ Joe Lewis

 

[A Guy]

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
~George Bernard Shaw

A Guy