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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: In Keeping With the Battle of Britain on OM List
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 19:35:06 +0100
:-)  It’s good to have an appreciative audience, Bob ;-)

Chris

> On 22 Sep 2015, at 19:38, Bob Whitmire <fujixbob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> You go, Chief Constable! An excellent definition/example.
> 
> --Bob Whitmire
> Certified Neanderthal
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 1:14 AM, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>> Sigh (again :-))
>> 
>> “Floating” is the action of a buoyant object, for instance, on the surface
>> of a liquid.  To describe something as "floating in front of my face", such
>> as an apparition or a feather in breeze, is a figurative use of the word,
>> not literal.
>> 
>> So the HUD is there, but it’s not “floating” in the literal sense of the
>> word.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
>>> On 22 Sep 15, at 02:27, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Why not, Chris? Are you saying that the graphical information in the HUD
>> of
>>> your fighter aircraft is just figuratively there?
>> 
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