Subject: Re: Equator/Greenwich<br/>
Date: Aug 21, 2003 @ 14:39<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-470179958">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, spookymike@a... <br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; In a message dated 8/21/03 12:19:34 AM, blofeld_es@y... <br/>
 </span></blockquote>writes:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; &lt;&lt; Just out of curiosity; has any of you point-addicts<br/>
&gt; made a virtual visit (class e?) to the point where the<br/>
&gt; Equator divides the Greenwich meridian? &gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; I never made it to point zero-zero during my Navy days, but <br/>
 </span></blockquote>remember that <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; anyone crosing the equator at that point was entitled to &quot;golden <br/>
 </span></blockquote>shellback&quot; <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; status, a cut above mere &quot;shellback&quot; status.  One of our young <br/>
 </span></blockquote>Ensigns had <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; crossed at zed-zed while doing a college summer educational <br/>
 </span></blockquote>cruise, where the <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; pollywogs had been initiated by being thrown into the <br/>
 </span></blockquote>swimming pool.  When we <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; crossed the equator in the Indian Ocean, King Neptune ruled <br/>
 </span></blockquote>that he had not been <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; properly intitiated, and denied his golden shellback claim.  In <br/>
 </span></blockquote>fact the young <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; lad was singled out for special training by the king&#39;s <br/>
 </span></blockquote>court.&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; Mike Schwartz<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>the first time i crossed the equator <br/>
the real king neptune sank my ship precisely upon it<br/>
to the very best of my dead reckoning<br/>
<br/>
so i didnt need to be artificially moistened at all<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
we werent anywhere near the prime meridian at the time tho<br/>
but luckily just off the ilha de marajo <br/>
in the mouth of the amazon<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
however it was my birthday<br/>
& likely high noon too<br/>
for the multi shellbacking coincidence</div>