RE: Ship Naming Convention

Hmph!

As all good Canadians know Bell invented the telephone in Brantford
Ontario and then took it south to the States.

David Best
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>From:	agoodall@sympatico.ca[SMTP:agoodall@sympatico.ca]
>Sent:	Monday, April 06, 1998 8:17 PM
>To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
>Subject:	Re: Ship Naming Convention
>
>On Mon, 06 Apr 1998 15:11:53 +0000, Rob Paul
<rpaul@worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk>
>wrote:
>
>>
>Make sure you throw in an Alexander Bell, and a John A. Macdonald
(Macdonald
>was born a Scot and went on to become Canada's first Prime Minister).
These
>are particularly good for NAC ships (note on Bell: born a Scot,
invented the
>telephone in the US, but first patented the phone and set up the first
>telephone exchange in Canada; nice bit of unifying there).
>
>
>Allan Goodall	      agoodall@sympatico.ca
>
>"Once again, the half time score, 
> Alien Overlords: 142,000. Scotland: zip."
>  - This Hour Has 22 Minutes
>