Still wrong, Jose.  Farther, not deeper. ;-)  I wonder whether Verne
     meant 20,000 statute leagues or marine leagues (there's about a 12%
     difference).  I guess he could have used kilorods, megafurlongs,
     arpents, kilochains, megalinks, kilocubits, statute or nautical miles
     or some other obscure measure.  Believe it or not, some people still
     measure depth in feet and fathoms!!
 
     I'm ready for a gill (a U.S. gill) of rum. (~118 ml).  Whew---
 
 
     Regards,
     Bob Avent
 
 
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Subject: Re: This and that
Author:  "Jose H. Leal" <[log in to unmask]> at ~smtp
Date:    8/12/98 3:35 PM
 
 
Just read my own message, and noticed that I wrote "TWO Thousand
Leagues..." instead of "TWENTY Thousand Leagues...", a little deeper...
 
 
At 01:53 PM 8/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Kevin,
>
>At 11:26 AM 8/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>What is your favorite mollusc/mollusk scene in a movie?
>
>Huge tentacles reaching through the submarine's hatchway, humongous eyes
>peeking through the panoramic portholes... Hard to beat the sequence of the
>giant squid attack on Captain Nemo's "Nautilus" in the classic Hollywood
>rendition of Jules Verne "Two Thousand Leagues Under the Sea".
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