Originally posted by Ten13:
'Catcher in the Rye' = some dude dressed in a baseball catcher's uniform crouched in a rye field with the sun setting behind him perhaps? heehee. |
Considering that's pretty much where the title *comes* from, it's not a stretch. Holden Caulfield has a dream about standing in a rye field catching little kids to keep them from falling off the hill.
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by Natator:
Now, where can I get an underwater camera casing that will take me down deep enough for "2000 Leagues Under the Sea" |
You're off by an order of magnitude there, it's 20,000 (but who's counting?) ... I was quite an adult before I really figured out that that was the distance they traveled, not the depth they attained (lotsa pressure at 60,000 miles down!). |
You're right, and I'm glad you said it. It's one of my pet peeves that people think that submarine was 20,000 leagues deep. Leagues are a measure of distance, not depth. Especially obvious considering the fact that you can't *get* 20,000 leagues deep. A league is 3 miles (about 4.8 km), so 20,000 leagues is 96,000 kilometers, which is more than seven times the diameter of the Earth (12,756 km)!
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