Re: Poisson SJ Conversion

In a message dated 8/29/2002 5:08:19 PM, flamebringer@???????.com writes:

<< Um...number one-you've been posting waaaay more stuff than I intend to read
in a really short period.>>
    He's right.  Conversions are nice and all, and thank you for the effort,
but at the moment I've no real need for them, so I skim them at best.

<<Number two-things had to be pretty close in the old days, since
communications were so slow and dangerous. If pirates were going to blockade
a town-though I doubt they'd get much profit from it-they'd have to be
within sight.>>
    Another good point.  Pirates don't blockade towns--they pillage them.
Privateers might if some commodore or admiral shanghais them into it, but in
general pirates would simply attack

<<Number three-who named a coastal town Poisson? They need to be beaten.
Especially if it's a French town. Like I'm going to name my newly-founded
city Fish.>>
    The answer to this one is simple.  The town was named by an American who
wanted a French sounding name.