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RE: It is a Mark Twain kind of day here, and I'm taking it easy....
Well you might like him as a friend but who knows if he would want anything to do with you!
Well you might like him as a friend but who knows if he would want anything to do with you!
He only avoided Texans...ROFLOL!
:)>that's probably true. Where was he, Missouri?
Yup, on the Mississippi River! Mark Twain aas what they yelled when they were throwing lead, and the river was deep enough to be safe. Samuel Clemons adopted it for his nom de plume.
:)>Oh man, more interesting trivia and forcing me to learn!
Sorry, take an aspirin and call me in the morning, ROFLOL!
:)>lol..so they shouted that when measuring the depth of the water like they would say to mark the number of feet? What does twain mean?
Rough translation is safe channel for a steamboat, at two fathoms (12 feet) or more....
https://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/MTP/mississippi.html
:)>oh very cool, thanks sir smithlabs.