Re: Fleet book [OT]

Hello Jon,

Jonathan White wrote:
> 
> On 22 May 98, at 19:06, Jerry Han wrote:
> > > The consignment of FB copies for US distribution is currently in
the
> > > middle of the Big Pond, on a container ship bound for Seattle.
> > Seattle?  No wonder it's taking so long, if they're going the long
way
> > around... (8-)
> > Seriously though, how/why are they being shipped by ship to Seattle?
 (If
> > I can ask without the MIBs visiting me in the middle of the night.
(8-) )
> 
> Because that's where the ship's going? If the goods are in a container
that container
> probably goes (first) to wherever the most cargo on the ship wants to
go to. GZG don't
> have any controls on international shipping schedules. And if the next
ship to say New
> York doesn't leave until a week later, whose to choose?

Relax Jon, I was joking.  (8-)	I just wanted to make sure it wasn't a 
misprint.  (I just had this image of my head of a ship pulling out of 
Portsmouth, and heading South, around Africa, stopping at Diego Garcia,
moving up and over to Japan, and then crossing the Pacific to Seattle.
Two years and six weeks later... (8-) )

> I Of course, if you were a /real/ obsessive you'd already have
arranged a redeye
> economy class flight to come over and get one by hand :).

I've already got one, actually; JT was gracious enough to send me one
because of the FT3 playtest.  I love it.  (8-)

Later,
J.

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