People boat on fresh water, and in fact some people take the same power boats on both fresh and salt water, as I understand it. :)
Saying "I went to MIT" will usually get people out of the way to let one try doing a thing, except perhaps at MIT itself, but it doesn't automatically confer any abilities upon the speaker. An equally correct mantra would have been "I have connected wires to each other at least once. Probably."
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Date: 2010-03-18 11:55 am (UTC)Saying "I went to MIT" will usually get people out of the way to let one try doing a thing, except perhaps at MIT itself, but it doesn't automatically confer any abilities upon the speaker. An equally correct mantra would have been "I have connected wires to each other at least once. Probably."