re: #196 Only The Lurker Knows

Obama also does not know the difference between a ship and a boat.
Submarines are boats - not ships.
What an embarrassment.

Excuse me? Hoft, you are a idiot. Submarines are in fact a ship. Just like a Tin Can (destroyer) is also a ship.

Among sailing vessels, the distinction between ships and boats is that a ship is a square-rigged craft with at least three masts, and a boat isn’t. With regard to motorized craft, a ship is a large vessel intended for oceangoing or at least deep-water transport, and a boat is anything else.

But that’s too much to remember. Try this: ships have to be big enough to carry boats, and boats have to be small enough to be carried by ships.

that’s about the way i allus heard it. sub is teh motorized iirc

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