Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Equator/Greenwich<br/>
Date: Aug 21, 2003 @ 11:21<br/>
Author: spookymike@aol.com (spookymike@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1434758422">In a message dated 8/21/03 12:19:34 AM, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:blofeld_es@...">blofeld_es@...</a> writes:<br/>
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&lt;&lt; Just out of curiosity; has any of you point-addicts<br/>
made a virtual visit (class e?) to the point where the<br/>
Equator divides the Greenwich meridian? &gt;&gt;<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;&gt;&gt; I never made it to point zero-zero during my Navy days, but remember that <br/>
 </span></blockquote>anyone crosing the equator at that point was entitled to &quot;golden shellback&quot; <br/>
status, a cut above mere &quot;shellback&quot; status.  One of our young Ensigns had <br/>
crossed at zed-zed while doing a college summer educational cruise, where the <br/>
pollywogs had been initiated by being thrown into the swimming pool.  When we <br/>
crossed the equator in the Indian Ocean, King Neptune ruled that he had not been <br/>
properly intitiated, and denied his golden shellback claim.  In fact the young <br/>
lad was singled out for special training by the king&#39;s court.&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<br/>
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Mike Schwartz</div>