> In article registered.motzarella.org>,
> "Obveeus" aol.com> wrote:

>>
>> Rowing: several teams rowing the boat 'backwards'. I think Ron deserves
>> special bonus points for rowing backwards because his daughter told him
>> how
>> to do it even though he knew the correct way to row a boat. I know if I
>> had
>> a hernia I wouldn't want to row a boat at all, much less try to do it
>> 'backwards' just because some clueless fool told me to.

>
> In several cultures boats are rowed facing forward, for example the
> Vietnamese that we saw in an earlier TAR. And anywhere that the rower
> stands, as in Burma or Venice, he faces forward.