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Subject: 
Re: The Greatest Adventure Movies List
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 2 Nov 1999 22:38:06 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Roger D. Parks writes:
> In lugnet.adventurers, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > In lugnet.adventurers, Roger D. Parks writes:
> > > In lugnet.adventurers, Mark Lindsey writes:
> > > > Here it is fellow Adventurers:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > {{SNIP}}
> > > 
> > > I'm shocked, -shocked-, I tell you!
> > > 
> > > Not even a -mention- of 'Captain Horatio Hornblower'.
> > > 
> > > <grin>  Not to mention the recent A&E (?) re-make, for which
> > > a -new- 22-gun frigate was built -and launched-.
> > > 
> > > Really, Mark-- I'd thought better of you <grin>.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > Roger
> > > 
> > > 'Who is your friend, sir?'
> > 
> > 
> > Movies, which lets out the A&E production.
> 
> <shrug>  I didn't see an exclusion of TV productions; must have missed it, eh?
> 
> Hmmmm... a bit narrow on the definition, aren't you, especially since 'Captain
> Blood' and  'Mutiny on the Bounty' and.....-are- included.
> 
> Or did you object to those, too?  If so, I must have missed that as well.

I suggested Captain Blood, of course.  :-)

> 
> > Either or both belong in the Great
> > Age of Sail/Pirates movie list, in any case.  I don't believe 22 guns rates • as
> > a Frigate, though it would be a post ship (oh dang, I forget the screwy rules
> > for calling it a "ship").
> 
> <raised eyebrow>  Indeed.  However, since it is -not- a brig, what else
> could it be?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Roger
> 
> 'Who is your friend, sir?'


They could call whatever they had available a "frigate".  But it is in fact a
frigate - 20 guns was the minimum, not 24 as I was thinking.

Bruce



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  Re: The Greatest Adventure Movies List
 
(...) <shrug> I didn't see an exclusion of TV productions; must have missed it, eh? Hmmmm... a bit narrow on the definition, aren't you, especially since 'Captain Blood' and 'Mutiny on the Bounty' and.....-are- included. Or did you object to those, (...) (27 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)

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