On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 08:16:37 +0800, Bjorn Vang Jensen
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Strike wrote:
>
>> >Mate!  I'm having difficulty getting my mind around the concept of
>> >*paying* for the privilege of living, sleeping and eating on a ship
>> >that floats around the world!!  :-)))
>
>While staring out of my hotel room window at The Rocks in Sydney the other
>day, I was inspired to look into the Bounty mutiny story.

Not familiar with that story myself excerpt the version in the mooovies,
I did not learn the incredible Pitcairn Island story until a couple
of days before we got there.

The incredible part was the island was a perfect, isolated place for
the mutiny crew to settle down, until the island got OVER-POPULATED
when it reached about 200.

So, the sun-never-set-on-the-Brit-Queen gave them an island 3700
miles away to settle there.  But then the mutiny crew was not happy
about the new island, and sailed 3700 miles back to Pitcairn, which
now has a population of about 50.  :-)

Talk about a single-trunk family tree!  It must be the envy of all
Tennesseans.


Hey Bjorn, what's this work-related galivanting in Oz?  The last I
heard you were getting a job in Shanghai, and was mailing me the
book you misplaced on "The Man who loved Mathematics".  Will I get
the book when I get home?  Will you be forever exiled in Oz like
Strike?  :-)

-- Bob.

Very temporarily stopped at Christobol, Panama.