Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Women (was: Launching at the boat ramp)

[Chris Nugent <dirkpitt77@yahoo.com>]

    You know, traditionally, haven't women been
considered to be bad luck on a sailing vessel? 
Historically that might have something to do with it,
although I'm ALL FOR setting a precedent
here....hehehe

--- Michael B Holt <michaelbholt@juno.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:04:44 EST SJSVOB@aol.com
> writes:
> >
> ><<" Even better would be a James Bond car. What fun
> it would be at the
> ramp to
> >have a car drive down the ramp and sink. ;)>>
> >
> >Don't forget that in the passenger seat you'd have
> to have an exotic 
> >femme fatale in a fur-lined bikini to admire at
> your exploit.
> 
> We're back to women, now, are we?
> 
> Just to take a sort-of side trip . . . 
> 
> Let's think about the better-known fictional
> submarines: were there
> any women?   As some of you may recall, there was a
> woman on the
> movie version of the Seaview (Voyage to the Bottom
> of the Sea), but
> you never get to see a woman on a sub until
> "Operation Petticoat."
> No chicks in "Ice Station Zebra," or "Hunt for Red
> October."  I'm 
> ignoring "Abyss" and the like, where the subs were
> all a bit different.
> 
> John Holland married a woman a lot younger than he:
> by about 20
> years, as I recall (I'll check after dinner).
> 
> So in general, submariners don't pay a lot of
> attention to women.  Or,
> more precisely, they separate their women from their
> submarines.
> Damn shame.
> 
> Anyone ever met a woman seriously interested in
> submarines?
> I'm sure she'd be fascinating.
> 
> 
> 
> Mike
> -- 
> 
> 
>
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