A Conversation for Wind force twelve abaft the Beam
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mari-rae(tee reads: (entangled in cardboard boxes, please send tape...) Posted Apr 20, 2002
~ring ring ring~
Captain, I have lowered the Jolly Roger to half staff in honor of Thor Heyerdahl's life.
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Floh Fortuneswell Posted Apr 21, 2002
You didn't WANT to visit the Canary Islands? But we HAVE to. Especially La Gomera.
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shagbark Posted Apr 21, 2002
calm down. I told you I changed my mind. I agree we definitely should
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mari-rae(tee reads: (entangled in cardboard boxes, please send tape...) Posted Apr 22, 2002
~Somebody get the Navigator's attention... hello? hello? Navigator? We would like to leave Madeira and go to the Canaries now, please... hello?~
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Apr 22, 2002
okay then - off to the 
islands 
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Apr 22, 2002
ah, attack-schmattack
no match for us, i'm sure 
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Kes Posted Apr 23, 2002
*Puts on tin hat (in case of further attack) and emerges from under the chart table.*
Right! The canaries it is then ...Start main engines ... Blow lots of wind into all sails ... Canaries here we come ..send off some carrier pigeons to warn the Canaries. Move that Rigar off the chart table so I can see the map ... (i.e. budge a rigar 
) Who's the Helmsman today? Albert Ross? (Think about it) .....
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mari-rae(tee reads: (entangled in cardboard boxes, please send tape...) Posted Apr 23, 2002
~I got it! I got it! Wait... 
Madge Pie I don't. ~
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mari-rae(tee reads: (entangled in cardboard boxes, please send tape...) Posted Apr 23, 2002
~ring ring ring~
Are those people in that other ship SHOOTING at us?? A cannonball just whizzed by our Figurehead! 
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Apr 23, 2002
i say shoot back and ask later! 
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shagbark Posted Apr 23, 2002
Is Yossarian at the cannons today? Have we got them loaded and ready to return fire?
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recrash Posted Apr 23, 2002
we are under attack! someone sent a torpedo into the extended Sickbay, and i nearly got swept off the deck with close-range grapeshot.
sir! ready when you are!
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shagbark Posted Apr 23, 2002
Somebody raise that Jolly Roger. Notify the cannoneers, fire at will.
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- 981: mari-rae(tee reads: (entangled in cardboard boxes, please send tape...) (Apr 20, 2002)
- 982: Floh Fortuneswell (Apr 21, 2002)
- 983: shagbark (Apr 21, 2002)
- 984: mari-rae(tee reads: (entangled in cardboard boxes, please send tape...) (Apr 22, 2002)
- 985: Floh Fortuneswell (Apr 22, 2002)
- 986: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Apr 22, 2002)
- 987: DeepThought (Apr 22, 2002)
- 988: DeepThought (Apr 22, 2002)
- 989: Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) (Apr 22, 2002)
- 990: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Apr 22, 2002)
- 991: Kes (Apr 23, 2002)
- 992: mari-rae(tee reads: (entangled in cardboard boxes, please send tape...) (Apr 23, 2002)
- 993: mari-rae(tee reads: (entangled in cardboard boxes, please send tape...) (Apr 23, 2002)
- 994: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Apr 23, 2002)
- 995: shagbark (Apr 23, 2002)
- 996: recrash (Apr 23, 2002)
- 997: recrash (Apr 23, 2002)
- 998: Floh Fortuneswell (Apr 23, 2002)
- 999: recrash (Apr 23, 2002)
- 1000: shagbark (Apr 23, 2002)
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