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On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 22:10:24 +0100, Brian Reay <no...@m.com> wrote:

>On 13/07/2018 21:01, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
>> On 13/07/2018 20:56, JimP wrote:
>>> On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:33:32 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 5:58:13 PM UTC-4, Peter Flass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Another once-good career that has gone the way of the iceman.
>>>>
>>>> In an episode of Car 54, an older woman (played by the great
>>>> Molly Picon), was given a modern apartment.  She demanded an
>>>> icebox, so the iceman would come up and visit with her.  She
>>>> thought her modern apartment was a jail.
>>>>
>>>> That episode, made circa 1961, was very phophetic.
>>>
>>> I have lived in three apartments in my life. I agree, I felt like I
>>> was in a cage. I had tv, my computer, dvds of movies and stand up
>>> comedy. There were days I had to make my self stay there.
>>>
>> 
>> I lived in the tower blocks at Essex Uni and thought nothing of it
>> but nowadays appreciate a garden to go out to, to relieve the
>> boxed in feeling. I'd never go on a prison ship, AKA cruise liner,
>> for the same reason
>> 
>
>There is nothing quite like seeing the night sky from the deck of a ship 
>far out to sea.  Even during daylight, seeing the sea stretch out to 
>'join' the sky all around you is quite awe inspiring.

I didn't pay much atten, but I have wondered if I saw the Greater and
Lesser Magellenic Clouds, and the Southern Cross during the two trips
my ship went to the Carribean Sea. I was rather busy and didn't think
of it, until several years later. Too late. And no, a photo just isn't
the same.