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The Drydock - Episode 185

🕑 Added 2022-02-12 14:01:02 +0000 UTC

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Does anyone know the name of Drach’s intro tune for Drydock?

Tuizentfloot

looking at the etymology of "sponsor" I can imagine just one exception on your "no food or beverage sponsors" rule: sponsor (n.) 1650s, from Late Latin sponsor "sponsor in baptism," in Latin "a surety, guarantee, bondsman," from sponsus, past participle of spondere "give assurance, promise solemnly," from Proto-Italic *spondejo- "to pledge," literally "to libate many times," from PIE *spondeio- "to libate" (source also of Hittite ishpanti- "to bring a fluid sacrifice, pour;" Greek spendein "make a drink offering," spondē "libation, offering of wine;" compare spondee).

From the FAQ pinned post: if you can read this... 2) How many questions do I get? - If you can read this post, you have 1 guaranteed question per month. You can post more than one, but I will then pick just the one to answer. :) I'm a mere $5 patreon and Drach answers one question per month on average. Just a comment regarding the shell at the end of the 185 video. It appears to taper rather than be straight sided like a naval shell. Perhaps it has been completely enclosed in both a front wind-screen and a tapered tail with fins.

Dubsington

You have to be a $15 patron to be able to ask questions in the Patron rewards thread. If you're in the $1/$5/$10 tiers you have to ask on the public youtube threads and just hope it gets picked up. Edit: Not to imply this is a bad thing. Good luck getting *any* other subject matter expert to spend time answering a technical question for $15.

Dubsington

Congrats on getting another sponsor-- you do great work, don't feel bad about accepting these. You deserve some compensation and your wife deserves it for letting you do all this good content for us :)

Andrew Dederer

I read that the French Navy was known to "bury" their dead in the ballast of their ships, because of a law that wouldn't declare a woman a widow without the body. The book was about the Napoleonic era army for the most part, but implied this had been true under the monarchy as well.