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13th April 2016, 12:49 AM
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Re: "Dear John" letters
Hi John.
Bragging again.
Cheers Des
Originally Posted by
happy daze john in oz
Only one I got was when still at high school but did send a few to females who wanted more than I was prepared to give. I had no money then anyway so what to give?
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13th April 2016, 06:26 AM
#12
Re: "Dear John" letters
I wonder, did any of the ones on UCL maybe get a Dear Joan?
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller
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13th April 2016, 06:29 AM
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Re: "Dear John" letters
#10... Wasn't the same outfit from the story of the wreck of the Hesperus John was it ??? JS
Last edited by j.sabourn; 13th April 2016 at 06:31 AM.
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13th April 2016, 07:27 AM
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Re: "Dear John" letters
Originally Posted by
happy daze john in oz
Only one I got was when still at high school but did send a few to females who wanted more than I was prepared to give. I had no money then anyway so what to give?
Just "Give Her 1." John.
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13th April 2016, 08:50 AM
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Re: "Dear John" letters
ah richard the powers of education ....i was enjoying the favours of .....so much more gentile than the usual term lol.....regards cappy
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13th April 2016, 01:21 PM
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Re: "Dear John" letters
Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
#10... Wasn't the same outfit from the story of the wreck of the Hesperus John was it ??? JS
#10, No, but the same ship that arrived at the Flannan Isles Lighthouse in 1900 when all three keepers went missing.
John B
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13th April 2016, 08:23 PM
#17
Re: "Dear John" letters
I should have gotten a second one.
But it was addressed to Ron B Manderson
Chief elect.
British merchant navy.
Never did receive it .
I wonder why.
Ron the batcave
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13th April 2016, 08:27 PM
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Re: "Dear John" letters
I received one in Oz. on my first trip, Port Jackson, from my first love, Eileen xxxxwood. I was devastated. No sleep that night, worked in a daze the next day. Then I thought to myself....Self, she doesn't know that I've received this. So I posted it on my door and started composing a dear John to her. The rest of the gang in the catering department caught word of what I was doing and decided to help...It was a scorcher, brilliant.
A couple of years later, I was on leave, and went to a dance at the Kursall Ballroom in Southend on Sea. It was a ladies request, where females got to ask the males to dance. Eileen's sister came up to me and asked me to dance. Eileen 'cut-in', the sister and her are almost into a cat fight on the dance floor.
We danced, Eileen was still pished at the dear John she received. She asked me if I received her letter. I told her I had received one, but there was no point in opening it, so I tore it up and flushed it. She was doubly pished now and stormed off the dance floor. I wasted no time in asking the sister to dance and could I walk her home....She was nothing special, but I took her to the movies the next night, just to get the last crack at Eileen.
Funny, I don't think we ever forget our first love. (Forgot the name of the sister though).
"Revenge is a dish best served cold." Anon.
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14th April 2016, 03:11 PM
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We had a chippy who got a Dear John when we docked at Kingston Jamaica,next night we were in the Dominican Republic,though not a drinking man chippy decided to come ashore with the deck crowd,what a state he got in after a few drinks,he passed out we looked after him and eventually got chippy safely back on board.
For about 4 days chippy walked around in a trance.
I received a Dear John after being away 3 months,it hurt but she did me a favour as she was not a right one
to marry a seaman,have been married to my wife 59 years so I did some thing right.
Getting back to chippy in a good breeze chippy was always sea sick and he always turned green.
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3rd May 2016, 07:58 PM
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Joined a ship in Taiwan where an Assistant Steward had received a Dear John from his boyfriend, he jumped ship, as I knew the ship had just come from South Africa I asked where he had jumped ship, certainly did not expect the answer I got.
He had jumped over the wall in the middle of the Indian Ocean
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