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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Ruben,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Some time ago, I saw a bumper sticker that read</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> Even a bad day fishing is better than a good day at the office.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, July 23, 2020, 6:37:49 PM PDT, Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">did you ever see this?<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.brooklyn-living.com/fishing.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.brooklyn-living.com/fishing.html</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 7/23/20 7:45 PM, Rick Moen wrote:<br clear="none">> Quoting Ruben Safir (<a shape="rect" href="mailto:ruben@mrbrklyn.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ruben@mrbrklyn.com</a>):<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">>> Except for one thing. Have you ever tried to take a Caravel into the<br clear="none">>> deep ocean with just sales, and no map?<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> These guys had balls.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Granted. And, _if_ there had been little or nothing <br clear="none">> between his point of departure and China, and if he truly knew the<br clear="none">> approximate real size of Earth, that would only make it even more gutsy.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> As it was, they had a six-week voyage across the Atlantic after leaving<br clear="none">> the Canary Islands -- until they finally reached some island in the<br clear="none">> Bahamas or Turks & Caicos chains. Before they pulled off that feat,<br clear="none">> nothing west of the Azores and Madeira had been known to Europeans<br clear="none">> (other than by the Vikings, of course). Well, technically, there <br clear="none">> _is_ convincing evidence Portuguese navigators had already established<br clear="none">> that there were lands over here, and Columbus may have known:<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://www.americanheritage.com/was-america-discovered-columbus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.americanheritage.com/was-america-discovered-columbus</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Also, as the article points out, there were somewhat vague but<br clear="none">> compelling claims left over from the ancient Phoenicians that they had<br clear="none">> visited vast lands far beyond the Pillars of Hercules.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> But even so: gutsy. Sometimes, gold fever helps for that. (For<br clear="none">> Columbus, it really was all about the gold he expected to come home<br clear="none">> with.)<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> conspire mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">So many immigrant groups have swept through our town<br clear="none">that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological<br clear="none">proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.mrbrklyn.com</a><br clear="none">DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.nylxs.com " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.nylxs.com </a>- Leadership Development in Free Software<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.brooklyn-living.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.brooklyn-living.com</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,<br clear="none">but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013<div class="ydp99187792yqt4801300653" id="ydp99187792yqtfd46828"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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