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hey, Pete
not to be boring but do you still wear that orange t-shirt and do the imitation of the Great Pumpkin?
And on stoopid, and I mean REALLY stoopid terminology - who was the mental defective that decided to call the action flats, "water table"? Even tho my heritage is most decidedly English I make conscious efforts to avoid the connection. England is just too silly a place to really exist - like Bucky the Cat said.
I think maybe we should all just make up sh7t so we can all sound like we actually do know WTF we're talking about. 'Cept for me of course since I DO know what I'm talking about. I studied with Professor Irwin Corey, the world's foremost authority.
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I feel a disturbance in the force.
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It has risen!!!  Good to see you back!
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When shooting an English gun, its bore!
Shooting an American gun, its gauge.
Anything else, who cares!
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I feel a disturbance in the force.
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"Some say gauge...kumbya"
"Some say bore...kumbya"
"It don't matter none...kumbya"
"Kumbya Kumbya Kumbya"
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Sorry, guys, but this whole thing bores me to death, and I gauge others feel the same way
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"Water Table" is a term from ship building (airplanes, too) and is the main reference point from which all other measurements are taken. It seemed logical to some sports writer in the 20's or 30's to give the same term to guns although the Brits never used the term, simply "table".
As for Wonko... it only makes sense that he is a Brit as he is a Friscan, also... most likely Haight Ashbury. Silly savage. His knowledge of water tables is limited to the banjos he tries to play. I wonder if he is a picker of a thumber?
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Wonko the Sane has come back out into the Asylum!
Now that you mention it, I have always been curious about where the term "water table" came from.
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Pete, I've never seen the term water table on a blueprint or set of lines for a plane or boat. Water line or datum water line or in the case of the nautical, load water line or design water line but not water table.
jack
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