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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Nov 8, 2017
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 8, 2017
"There's whiskeyi n the jar" [Pierce]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yPIC-o1O3k
I was listening to this earlier today. What a coincidence!
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Nov 8, 2017
I'll to that ... JUMPING JEHOSIFERS!
Just as I am writing this my mayor shows up in an advert on top of this page!
Maybe I shouldn't be surprised. There is an election coming up and he is fighting to keep his job.
I just never thought I'd meet him here
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 8, 2017
My mayor won reelection handily last night.
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Nov 8, 2017
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Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Nov 10, 2017
I'm wondering if Trumps plane is really called "Hair force one!" or the plane just carrying his wig's
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Nov 10, 2017
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 11, 2017
Here's a suggestion for the plane's sound system: bewigged, bothered, and bewildered.
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Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Nov 18, 2017
just bought some nice quick clamps, big 18' ones I now can finish repairing the fishing boat, its going to be ready in time for the spring and the fish better watch out
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Florida Sailor All is well with the world Posted Nov 18, 2017
Back when I was in high school (many eons ago) I had a small sailboat. The top of the mast had de-laminated (long story) so I had to re-glue it. A good friend, who was in Sea Scouts with me stopped by and asked me what I was doing? I told him I was re-gluing my mast. “What are those?” He asked, pointing to my clamps. “Oh those are just C-clamps,” I replied. A few days later he came over to my house and I was not at home. He asked my father “Where did Dale get those special boat clamps he was using? I have a project that they might be useful for.”
I think he thought I said 'Sea Clamps'
F S
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 18, 2017
As far as nautical expertise is concerned, for me that ship has sailed.
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Florida Sailor All is well with the world Posted Nov 18, 2017
http://www.writebyte.net/writebyte.dll/GetPage?PageId=MessingAboutInBoats
Never too late, as long as you are on the top side of the sod!
F S
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 18, 2017
I love "Wind in the willows."
My father's ancestors were mariners for many generations. If his grandfather hadn't been lost sea, the family wouldn't have moved so far inland in search of work. I'm the odd duck who moved back toward the ocean. But I'm more of a river person. I've never lived more than 100 yards from a body of water. Doesn't have to be big. My father's house has a brook in front of it. Too small to go boating on. We tried to dam it up for a pond, but it was too small a pond for boating on. From there I moved to a rooming house on Brookline. It was so close to Fenway park that I could hear fans cheering the Boston Red Sox. The Muddy River ran fairly close to the rooming house. I doubt that many people tried to go boating on that river!
Now I live near the Charles River. I've gone boating on it, and I agree with Rat about how nice boating is.
I would have been a more active boater if my Father hadn't been so critical on the few occasions when I went canoeing with him. I wanted to please him, but he never said "Good job" even when I felt I had improved.
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Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Nov 19, 2017
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Florida Sailor All is well with the world Posted Nov 19, 2017
I once read a story about a sailor on shore leave who was having a drink in a local bar. A fellow patron asked him how he had chosen to be a sailor. he said, 'The men in my family have always gone to sea, my grandfather died at sea, and after him my father also went to sea and died there, it is in my blood'!
'My god', said the other man, 'Aren't you afraid to go to sea, since your father and grandfather both died there?'
'Where did your Father die?'
'In bed.'
'Where did your grandfather die?'
'He also died in bed.'
He looked him with a worried expression, 'You still go to bed every night?'
F S
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Nov 19, 2017
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ITIWBS Posted Nov 19, 2017
...curious, digging up my own c clamps to install a rat proof bottom panel in a chest of drawers.
I frankly don't understand why those things don't have that as a standard feature, a simple panel in the base to prevent penetration from underneath.
The old boat needs to be compketely rebuilt.
Only the hull and trailer are still salvageable and there's a great deal to be done with the house before I get to that.
At the moment, its just a decoration for the yard, like an old fashioned conestoga wagon left over from an earlier age of the world drafted into service for a decoration for a garden.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 19, 2017
People still take baths even though they might die in their bathtubs.
It's 100% guaranteed that something will kill you. Figuring out what that something is going to be could take up all of your time. Or, you could just enjoy each day that comes along without worrying so much. I think there's a passage about that in one of the Gospels.
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- 6306: Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! (Nov 10, 2017)
- 6307: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Nov 10, 2017)
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- 6309: Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! (Nov 18, 2017)
- 6310: Florida Sailor All is well with the world (Nov 18, 2017)
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