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3rd November 2023, 12:42 AM
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Re: Merchant women seafarers
The definition of a ship used to be even according to the Oxford Concise Dictionary ..A 3 or 4 masted vessel square rigged on at least 3. Today no such thing it is a vessel that floats in water among other things. To me a boat goes on a ship and not a ship on a boat. Although saying that there are occasions that ships and other things are carried on the decks of other vessels. When is a ship underway ? When it is not at anchor , made fast to the shore , or aground. It is still underway even if not making way through the water. JS
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3rd November 2023, 05:27 AM
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Re: Merchant women seafarers
#20 Is that where that song came from Des ? Perry Como or someone similar, “ Can I Canoe you up the River ?”. JS
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3rd November 2023, 05:35 AM
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Re: Merchant women seafarers
Then there was the one from the Noth of UK.
'When the boats come in'.
A TV show if I recall.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
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3rd November 2023, 07:47 AM
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Re: Merchant women seafarers
Dance to ti Daddy , plus a little fishy on a little dishy , when the boat comes in . That’s Cappy on the South pier still waiting for it . JS
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3rd November 2023, 08:41 AM
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Dance to your daddy ...my little laddie dance for your daddy .......hear your mammy sing .....thou shall have a fishy on a little dishy.... thou shall have a fishy when the boat comes in ..and dont forget bobby shafto ,s gone to sea silver buckles on his knee......and the silver darlings ........calllaherin.......R683532
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3rd November 2023, 09:40 AM
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I suppose this Boat/Ship thing is a bit like Car/Motor innit. Posh, upity people, would call them cars in those days, like "Hello John, have you got a new car?" Whereas, I would say "Hello John, got a new motor?"
If we were all ashore and finished our beer, some of us would say "I'm going back to the boat". Others of course would say "I'm going back to the ship". Now , I wouldn't be surprised if we all ended up at the same place. Unless of course, we were from different "vessels".
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3rd November 2023, 10:56 AM
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#25 AND I cannot get to my darling if I would dee the waters of Tyne run between her and me , and here I must stand with a tear in my ee ,so lonely and berefit my darling to see. I cheated and went over the Tyne Bridge to see them both one in Gateshead the other in Blaydon. JS
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3rd November 2023, 12:48 PM
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[QUOTE=Johnny Kieran;424320]I suppose this Boat/Ship thing is a bit like Car/Motor innit. Posh, upity people, would call them cars in those days, like "Hello John, have you got a new car?" Whereas, I would say "Hello John, got a new motor?"
If we were all ashore and finished our beer, some of us would say "I'm going back to the boat". Others of course would say "I'm going back to the ship". Now , I wouldn't be surprised if we all ended up at the same place. Unless of course, we were from different "vessels".[/QUOTE
Eh! bah gum, didna naw i wer reet posh, moind ye I de says garage and not garige
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3rd November 2023, 01:00 PM
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Garage Garage !!?? What’s that ? My wife who was my girl friend for 5 years , or at least one of them, I thought she was posh as she lived in a private house and her father had an A30 which he actually kept it in his garage. Me coming from a council estate had no garage never mind a car . So I thought she had money . Has taken me 66 years to find out all her money came from me. Cheers JS
PS my wife has corns with age but if they were as bad as recently exhibited think it may have lowered my ardour , some people it must do something kinky for them ? JS
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3rd November 2023, 02:23 PM
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Bleedin ell Ivan, wassamtawivya? Woss garige music totta do wiv it?
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