Subj : Re: How British is that?
To   : Belly
From : richardw
Date : Tue Jul 05 2005 01:12 pm

  Re: Re: How British is that?
  By: Belly to richardw on Fri Jul 01 2005 07:27 pm

 >  > I'm willing to bet there are a significant number of people who have
 >  > graduated high school in this country who can't tell you what a "ballast"
 >  > is.
 > 
 > Are you using 'ballast' to mean a large mass used to weight a craft, or the
 > transformer used to power gas-discharge lamps (fluorescent, etc)?

Well, my first thought was the large mass, but either would work as an 
example.

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