On 12/22/2015 10:33 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at 8:53:20 AM UTC-5, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per M. Stradbury:
Is it true (or an urban myth) that a swimmer would be sucked
under (presumably to drown) when a capital ship sinks?

Dunno what a capital ship is but am guessing it's big.


This is a ship: ship

This is a capital ship: SHIP


An extra-large capital ship: SSHHIIPP

An extra-large capital ship that sprung a leak: SSHHIIPPpppppppppppppppp

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2 days until the winter celebration (Friday December 25, 2015 12:00:00
AM for 1 day).

"[O]ld beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false." Edward O. Wilson,
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, (First edition, New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1998), p. 256.