How deep is the ocean?

Wow, this is the *nice* version of your post? Fantasize about going on angry random shooting sprees much? Don't know why I'm bothering, but . . .

You reported my post like 2 months after i posted it and still have nothing to say?

I "reported" your post? What do you mean? That I ratted you out for cursing or whatever? Nope, never even saw what you wrote. You seem to be under the impression that I closely monitor any responses to my posts, but I don't. I play in the message boards only when I have the time and inclination, which often means a really long time spent away. Sometimes I *never* check responses. For example, if you check, you'll see that I wrote a post about how silly Mythbusters has become, and I haven't looked for responses even once, because I assume that most responses will be telling me I'm full of bleep, and it doesn't sound like a lot of fun to spend time arguing about it.

Bottom line: you aren't that important.

Title of post: How deep is the ocean.

Which is incomplete as stands. The person *might* be addressing the depth of the ocean at its deepest. Or the average depth (or the median depth, for that matter). Or the person might have a particular ocean in mind--if so, my guess would be the Atlantic Ocean (closer to Wales than the Pacific), which has a deepest point well shallower than Mariana trench depth.

(If someone were to ask, "How tall is your family?", would you assume that he meant the height of the tallest person, the mean height, or the height of each person? If someone were to ask how deep your swimming pool is, would you assume he meant the distance from surface level to the bottom of the drain in the deep end??)

So I did the obvious: take the meaning as used in the movie, which is the average depth.

You say that the movie refers to "...BOTH the average and maximum depths in at least twice in the movie." Show me those two places in the movie. Seriously, do it. Or show an appropriate level of shame and go away.

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