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• Radar: Extremely realistic kind of electronic game often found on larger sailboats.
  -- from "Sailing" by Henry Beard and Roy Mckie...
• Battery: Electrochemical storage device capable of lighting an incandescent lamp of a wattage about equal to that of a refrigerator bulb for a period of 15 minutes after having been charged for 2 hours.
  -- from "Sailing" by Henry Beard and Roy Mckie...
• Sailing: The fine art of getting wet and becoming ill while slowly going nowhere at great expense.
  -- from "Sailing" by Henry Beard and Roy Mckie...
• Aneroid Barometer: Meteorological instrument which sailors often use to confirm the onset of bad weather.
  Its readings, together with heavy rain, severe rolling, high winds, dark skies, and a deep cloud cover, indicate the presence of a storm....
• Chronometer: Precision instrument which registers sharp impacts by displaying a telltale spiderweb pattern on its glass face
  by the absence of a normal ticking sound when held to the ear, or by the presence of small, loose pieces moving around within its case when shaken....
• Ringwald's Law of Household Geometry: Any horizontal surface is soon piled up.
• One of the principal objects of theoretical research in any department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in greatest simplicity.
  -- J. Willard Gibbs, Collected Works, v.1; p. 10....
• This product is meant for educational purposes only.
  Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental....
• Any mental functions attempted in this area must be re- evaluated during a subsequent period.
  It has been discovered that standard logic works sideways in this area due to the influence of the occupant....