On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:33:02 -0500, "Mike Lucas"
wrote:

Richard: Tnx for the post- I enjoy slogging through the math to 4 places,

An occupation that pleases me too.

So why not some poetry or at least free verse next time???

Sorry Mike,

Tilting untennas is suggestive of the crusades of the Man of La Mancha
and particals (sic) with spin remind me of Singing in the Rain -
derivative humor at best here, which is improved by decanting only for
the ranting author. Examples abound.

However, you can rest assured that using a couple of three syllable
words in a sentence is bound to be hooted at as being lifted from
Shakespeare, or undecipherable trappings of a foreign language. The
hayseed mentality is fairly distributed across the globe but we sure
get a unique crop cultivated here.

However, as I plunge into your suggestion, one quote comes to mind
from Herman Melville's "White Jacket":
"It is often observable, that, in vessels of all kinds,
the men who talk the most sailor lingo are the least
sailor-like in reality. You may sometimes hear even
marines jerk out more salt phrases than the Captain
of the Forecastle himself. On the other hand, when
not actively engaged in his vocation, you would take
the best specimen of a seaman for a landsman.
When you see a fellow yawning about the docks like
a homeward-bound Indiaman, a long Commodore's
pennant of black ribbon flying from his mast-
head, and fetching up at a grog-shop with a
slew of his hull, as if an Admiral were coming
alongside a three-decker in his barge;
you may put that man down for what
man-of-war's-men call a 'damn-my-eyes-tar',
that is, a humbug. And many damn-my-eyes hum-bugs
there are in this man-of-war world of ours."

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC