Transcript 1/29/10- Christian Carrion (Carryover)

[Jeemie]

Would make more sense to me to just drive from Copenhagen to Stockholm via the Drogden tunnel and Oresund bridge! Then you don't have to worry about what body of water you are on...

Hey, smartass!!

Are you supposed to be deep in the preparation of your whine database for the 2010 BBBL season?

[tanstaafl2]

Would make more sense to me to just drive from Copenhagen to Stockholm via the Drogden tunnel and Oresund bridge! Then you don't have to worry about what body of water you are on...

Hey, smartass!!

Are you supposed to be deep in the preparation of your whine database for the 2010 BBBL season?

Nah. That pretty much comes naturally at this point!

[ghostjmf]

10K: I had to go squint at my (very small) TV screen to prise the "vader" part out of this. Contestant got it well before I did.

12K: They might as well have asked me a question about Martian craters. In fact, I think I'd do better on that sort of question than this one. ATA. And hope to heck they're football fans.

[After fact comment here; I freaked out on this, but I know Manning has been playing football, & Rodriguez baseball, for "a while" so would not likely show up in an 2009 documentary. Unless it was a documentary about, uh, old times. I'd still ATA here.]

[[After After fact comment here: I was playing in real time, like the contestant.

With more time I'd have calmed down & thought "ooh, 5". "Maybe the team has, like, 5?". Not in 15 seconds or whatever.]]

25K: I'm not a GeoGenius, either (that's a National Geographic quiz reference, I will tell the clueless before they comment, not that that does any good) but I could rule out the 3 it wasn't. Problem was, I was expecting to see "North Sea", & didn't. See big board discussion. I'd have double dipped from sea-sickness (that also is intended as a pun) here, not really knowing what my 2nd choice would be after Adriatic; Black I guess. Dumb, Dumb Dumb Dumb. That's me I'm referring to here.

I had never heard, per board discussion, of the Kattegat Sea before said board discussion.

[MarleysGh0st]

I had never heard, per board discussion, of the Kattegat Sea before said board discussion.

That's because it's not its own sea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kattegat

The Kattegat (Danish, commonly used in English), or Kattegatt (Swedish) is a sea area bounded by the Jutland peninsula and the Straits islands of Denmark on the west and south, and the provinces of Scania, Halland and Bohuslän in Sweden on the east. The Baltic Sea drains into the Kattegat through the Øresund and the Danish Straits. The Kattegat is a continuation of the Skagerrak and may be seen as either a bay of the Baltic Sea, a bay of the North Sea, or, in traditional Scandinavian usage, neither of these.

[Appa23]

12K: They might as well have asked me a question about Martian craters. In fact, I think I'd do better on that sort of question than this one. ATA. And hope to heck they're football fans.

You might want to hope that they are basketball fans.

[Don't you have family in Ohio?]

[ghostjmf]

Appa23 says:

[Don't you have family in Ohio?]

Yes, but not in Akron. They might as well have been asking about Dacron.

[MarleysGh0st]

I'm not saying that Baltic is not the right answer but the North Sea is possible if you think it includes the Kattegat.

That's where "typically" would come in.

It would be quite silly to sail north into the Kattegat to go to Stockholm...you would have to turn around and come back past Copenhagen or else around the western and southern coasts of Sjælland to get back into the Baltic Sea.

Since I brought up the suggestion of canals, earlier in the thread, I looked into this further. There is the Göta Canal which connect Gothenburg on the Kattegat to Söderköping on the Baltic Sea. There may well be other canals that make further connections to Stockholm, avoiding that last stretch of the Baltic; there are enough rivers and lakes in southern Sweden to make this feasible, at least for recreational cruising.