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Article #2544Re: Port Holes
From: David Karr
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 00:40
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 00:40
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In article <13797@grayt> grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray) writes: > >Why are ship port holes round? Why, because they wouldn't look *nautical* otherwise, of course. Imagine if your boat had square windows all over the hull; it would look like some landlubber's *house*, for goodness' sake! -- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)
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Newsgroups: rec.puzzles Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!karr From: karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr) Subject: Re: Port Holes Message-ID: <1993Jan7.004012.29368@cs.cornell.edu> Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853 References: <13797@grayt> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:40:12 GMT Lines: 9