# Volantism *The Urth list — 7 messages, 3 voices, 04 Mar 2009* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### David Stockhoff *04 Mar 2009, 21:27* Now I'm seeing ships volant everywhere! The logo on this page approximates my original impression of the flying ship volant: http://www.spaceblue.com/products/pdfblender/ Of course, that ain't no "flying ship." --- ### Son of Witz *05 Mar 2009, 02:55 · in reply to David Stockhoff* are you looking at PDF tools for the reason I would expect? ~witz > On Mar 4, 2009, at 1:27 PM, David Stockhoff wrote: > Now I'm seeing ships volant everywhere! The logo on this page > approximates my original impression of the flying ship volant: > > http://www.spaceblue.com/products/pdfblender/ > > Of course, that ain't no "flying ship." > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 090304-0, 03/04/2009 > Tested on: 3/4/2009 4:27:07 PM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > _______________________________________________ --- ### Jeff Wilson *05 Mar 2009, 05:56 · in reply to David Stockhoff* > David Stockhoff wrote: > Now I'm seeing ships volant everywhere! The logo on this page > approximates my original impression of the flying ship volant: > > http://www.spaceblue.com/products/pdfblender/ > > Of course, that ain't no "flying ship." It looks like it is flying to me. ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com < http://www.io.com/~jwilson > ``` --- ### David Stockhoff *06 Mar 2009, 03:35 · follows Jeff Wilson* Keep guessing! > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 18:55:37 -0800 > From: Son of Witz > Subject: Re: (urth) Volantism > To: The Urth Mailing List > Message-ID: <44840248-FEF7-4AE2-9234-F2034B15831F at butcherbaker.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > are you looking at PDF tools for the reason I would expect? > ~witz > > On Mar 4, 2009, at 1:27 PM, David Stockhoff wrote: >> Now I'm seeing ships volant everywhere! The logo on this page >> approximates my original impression of the flying ship volant: >> >> http://www.spaceblue.com/products/pdfblender/ >> >> Of course, that ain't no "flying ship." >> >> >> --- --- ### David Stockhoff *06 Mar 2009, 03:36 · follows David Stockhoff* Well, yeah, but it doesn't have sails. > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:56:07 -0600 > From: Jeff Wilson > Subject: Re: (urth) Volantism > To: The Urth Mailing List > Message-ID: <49AF6977.9060805 at io.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > David Stockhoff wrote: >> Now I'm seeing ships volant everywhere! The logo on this page >> approximates my original impression of the flying ship volant: >> >> http://www.spaceblue.com/products/pdfblender/ >> >> Of course, that ain't no "flying ship." > > > It looks like it is flying to me. --- ### Jeff Wilson *06 Mar 2009, 05:17 · in reply to David Stockhoff* > David Stockhoff wrote: > Well, yeah, but it doesn't have sails. It has just now occurred to me that banks of oars extended to either side of a penteconter (for example) may have a winglike appearance and movement when viewed from before or abaft and have plenty of textev that vessels equipped with ranks of oars and oarsmen are familiar sights in the Commonwealth. This would even avoid violating the heraldric rule for wing placement in re volant. ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com < http://www.io.com/~jwilson > ``` --- ### Son of Witz *06 Mar 2009, 21:57 · follows Jeff Wilson* > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Wilson [mailto:jwilson at io.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 09:17 PM > To: 'The Urth Mailing List' > Subject: Re: (urth) Volantism > > David Stockhoff wrote: >> Well, yeah, but it doesn't have sails. > It has just now occurred to me that banks of oars extended to either > side of a penteconter (for example) may have a winglike appearance and > movement when viewed from before or abaft and have plenty of textev that > vessels equipped with ranks of oars and oarsmen are familiar sights in > the Commonwealth. This would even avoid violating the heraldric rule > for wing placement in re volant. Nice, Jeff. ---