A site for ex Merchant Seamen and you expect them to take it serious, 'you cannot be serious'.Quote:
Originally Posted by gray_marian
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A site for ex Merchant Seamen and you expect them to take it serious, 'you cannot be serious'.Quote:
Originally Posted by gray_marian
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Originally Posted by Captain Kong
Yes and with some you got an extra surprize later. Known to come up in alovely shade of red so I hear.
what does serious mean ????jp
never took any thing serious at sea john there was plenty paid to take it seriously .....but iwent for to see the world .....to drink and wench till my hearts content....and which may I say I accomplished with much greater results than any thing I did at school ......it was bloody wonderful ...we were lucky barstewards were we not regards cappy
And for some- fruit salad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ivan Cloherty
I could not agree more cappy, my school report always read "could do better", i did do better, i went to sea, and never ever regretted it. My report was written by a very nice man in a faded suit, who had never done anything but teaching us lot of village kids. i know who made the right choice, KT
the day I can't see the funny side of life I will dig the hole myself? people laugh your way through the rest of your days and you can overcome anything that life throws at you:pjp
John & Doc, Here's my selection with a few wee cheat's here and there!
More a"blue's " than classic fan myself so cheat no1
Blues
"Mother's little helper" by Mary Coughlan [Irish]
"Back to black" by Amy Winehouse
Opera
"Summertime" in Gershwin's Porgy & Bess
Movie/ Theatre score
"Master of the house" from Les Miserables
Country & Western not a huge fan have to say
"Crazy" by Patsy Cline
"Ruby don't take your love to town" by Kenny Rodgers
Contempory
"Maggie May" Rod Stewart version
"My baby just cares for me" by Nina Simone
"Ae fond kiss" by Robert Burns sung by Eddie Reader
"I Just want to make love to you" by Willie Dixon? sung by Etta James
2nd Cheat: HUGE Liberty!
would have to leave the following behind
Anything by:Billie Holiday, Tom Jones, Luciano Pavarotti, Inkspots, George Melly, Elvis, Doris Day, BuddyHolly, Edith Piaf, Tina Turner, Queen, Alfie Bow, Jelly Roll Morton,10cc, Nat King Cole, Mungo Gerry, Beach Boys and cannot leave the soundtrack of Grease, or Wm Holden in "Loves a many splendid thing" & Rossano Brazzi in "South Pacific" singing Some Enchanted Evening to Mitzi Gaynor even though it was dubbed! I'll stop now before I'm deleted.:vacation4:
Could not quite decide on the useless object. It's between a sieve for keeping the the wee beasties off my face at night time or toenail clippers, as I haven't had my foot in my mouth since yesterday!!:D
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My choices
3 Tenors singing Nessum Dorum (I know I cant spell, that's not a translation by the way) and anything by the blind Spanish guy.
Supertramp-Breakfast in America
Bar fund- just in case there was a corner shop (took that when we abandoned the CP Ambassador)
Useless item
Electric Razor
Luxury Item
Solar powered Kindle
Also
X and Y by Coldplay to make you really miserable when that passing ship fails to spot you as they did not have a lookout.
rgds
JA
Mine would be a short list, anything by whitney housten, john Cash, but i would need a box of hearing aid batteries to go with it. finally any long play records by Cliff Richards (thats to keep any wild life away), i could then sleep to that with the hearing aid battery removed, KT