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09-20-2008, 07:48 PM | #21 | |||
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Alrighty thar ye mother scuffers of scrawny sailors...git ye to them sails yer blowing ye stale air ain't gonna make this bucket of timbers move!! Jump to...I nain't say it agin!!!
Pirates...oh no...run fer the hills. lol |
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09-21-2008, 12:42 AM | #22 | |||
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aaayyyyy ya scurves, seeings ya wont be keeping things shipshap, perhaps a treasure map would makes you scurves happy
http://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/mapp.htm
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09-21-2008, 12:01 PM | #23 | |||
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I'd jump in but I have a migraine. Probably from the parrot screaming lol.
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09-21-2008, 12:08 PM | #24 | |||
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MUTINY, maties! MUTINY!!
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09-21-2008, 12:12 PM | #25 | |||
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That's funny - especially given your signature!
Ugh, I need some grog to swallow me Relpax.
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09-21-2008, 12:15 PM | #26 | |||
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CANNON BALLS!!! DID YOU KNOW THIS?
It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the cannon on old war ships. But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem. The best storage method devised was to stack them as a square based pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on sixteen. Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer from sliding/rolling from under the others. The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called, for reasons unknown, a Monkey. But if this plate were made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it. The solution to the rusting problem was to make them of brass - hence, Brass Monkeys. Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon balls would come right off the monkey. Thus,it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. And all this time, you thought that was just a vulgar expression, didn't you?
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09-21-2008, 12:25 PM | #27 | |||
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Brilliant, Brain! I've never seen that one. Isn't etymology just way too fun?
This is a lovely segue point, for today happens to be National Talk Like a Ballerina Day.
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09-21-2008, 12:45 PM | #28 | |||
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Thanks for the pic of Jake, Cath!!!! I miss your animal stories.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. *and diet coke*
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09-21-2008, 12:49 PM | #29 | |||
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thanks brain that was cool i had not know this, cool
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09-21-2008, 12:50 PM | #30 | |||
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Would that include DM?
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