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    Default Re: What did we call what the dockers nicked

    #19.. licking the glue on an envelope John, never seemed to have the same affect as licking the cork of a scotch bottle. JS.

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    Default Re: What did we call what the dockers nicked

    I remember as a Cadet finding a number of bottles of scotch loaded in Glasgow hidden down the hatches following discharge in BA. I dutifully handed them into the Mate, well I had to, he saw me trying to get them out of the hatch and I had to tell him I was bringing them to him - never saw them again - good job I hid one down the hatch which I successfully retrieved some time later. Had to be careful though and make sure that the seal was unbroken as there was very often bottles of another yellow fluid down the hatches too .................
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    On the Beaverfir we often had a tween deck full of booze. Cases of Plymouth Gin, Black and White Whiskey, cases of Ale (Tenants, Harp, IPA etc) along with casks of wine. As cadet it was my job to not only tally them in but also to, polity, ask those hard working London stevedores to " please be a bit more careful with the next sling as you appeared to have damaged one case in that last load and filtering the liquid dripping from the case through a pair of women's tights into empty bottles is not only not hygienic but also illegal as you are not returning it to the shore". Invariably the reply I received would involved sex and travel, emphasised with a stevedores hook being pointed in my direction.
    Homeward bound we would also load cases of Canadian Club whiskey and again I would have to remonstrate with the Canadian stevedores over the same damage. I put there ignoring me down to the language barrier of my queens English and their French Canadian patois.
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    p.s. the Polish made work shirts and Bromley walkers hand stitched pigskin boots certainly made us some well dressed working gear that seemed to magically appear each voyage.

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    Default Re: What did we call what the dockers nicked

    Quote Originally Posted by j.sabourn View Post
    #19.. licking the glue on an envelope John, never seemed to have the same affect as licking the cork of a scotch bottle. JS.
    Not so sure John, up in the NT I do believe glue sniffing is a sport of sorts.
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    #24... you sniffy no licky. !!! JS

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