Virtual Ship

[Geoff Anderson]

Gulliver

Ouch, must have touched a raw nerve somewhere.Maybe i should have waited until you had finished before, Pytiau fy cachu. Never mind !. It was a logical question i asked ,If I'm lying on the deck looking at the deck head, i know Ive reached my limit of the 4, 8, 16, 32 or even 64 bells rum. But if I'm vertical due to the list to port,yet still horizontal to the deck. Do you see my dilemma. Am i vertical despite being horizontal or am i horizontal despite being vertical??????????????. See what your angle of the dangle loading books say to that.
Or is it something to do with the squaw on hippopotamus is equal to the two squaws on the other two hides.
Thanks for letting me know where i stand regarding your Christmas card list.
Taffy 1eye aka Geoff, with no delusions of grandeur

For those who do not speak welsh, a translation. Bwyta fy cachu, means eat my sh-t. Pytiau = poke

[Michael Lawrence]

Listen in TaffyX 2 bach. According to my mumm I had a Welsh grandmother from Snowdon. Big she was yes, 6ft says my mumm. Maybe she was the top of the mountain who knows. Mumm say's she was a Hughes (could of been Huge) part of the Birkenhead dock family. Told my mumm I knew plenty of girls around the docks( various places and some of them were huge) Lovely right hook she gave me followed by a left cross to remind me to be respectful. But she said Mam that is never forget you've SWesh in you( I think she meaNT wELSH).
So I remember J.P.R. and he was built like a brick s***house and I'm as thick as one so yes I guess I can claim to be part Welsh. My mate Den in the galley along with his able 2nd cook Terry could put forward a lovely British dinner which would be Irish stew with haggis and jellied eels enlivened with a vin da loo curry. We could slosh this down with a few pints or schooners of crown lager,Kingfisher, Swan, Braines,Green King and sod the BNP.
We could have for sweet lovely tapioca or rice pudiing with treacle or how about a nice spotted dick or syrup pudding? I'll have a word with my mate Vernon to see whats best and Dazy John can choose the wine. Mike

[Terry Wilcox]

Hi Lads. Well now that Den is back on the bottle (Rum not milk), I am goin to cook some Sticky Toffee Pudding, and some Gypsy Tart. Now how many of you colonials know what a Gypsy Tart is????? I can all ready guess what the answer is going to be. Take care all of you........Terry.

[Geoff Anderson]

hi mike .
Seems like i owe you an apology, you have some welsh in you and one of gods chosen own. welcome to the fold. I'm off to do my look out stint in the crows nest.with my bottle of 4 bells.
Cariad has gone off for a holiday, she said she.d had enough of this endless nomadic like.So she,s off to terrorise the people living on the welsh boarders.
Ill give you a shout if and when i sight land.
Taffy 1eye

[Geoff Anderson]

Hi Terry.
We used to have that stuff for school dinners, yuck. Sweet brown stuff with a pastry top that resembled leather!
Taffy 1eye

[alf corbyn]

hi gulliver.sorry mate cannot make sense of your compass directions. can steer ne by n and a point e but whats the three quarters bit?. have not boxwd the compass since leaving gravesend (1948) but as a steward have seen some very dodgy looking wakes when looking over the stern. cheers. alf

[Gulliver]

hi gulliver.sorry mate cannot make sense of your compass directions. can steer ne by n and a point e but whats the three quarters bit?. have not boxwd the compass since leaving gravesend (1948) but as a steward have seen some very dodgy looking wakes when looking over the stern. cheers. alf

Bloody disgraceful,Alfie,what else did they not teach you at Gravesend.?
I learnt all 128 points of the compass....get practising....that three-quarters is very important....no wonder we're not getting anywhere...


'The set of 32 named points can be further extended to a set of 128 named points using fractions although these fractional points are nearly unheard of.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_the_compass

It also means placing the compass in a cardboard box; or donning gloves and giving it a good hiding,of course.

Gulliver

[happy daze john in oz]

Gypsy Lil and gypsy Tart were well know 'gals' in the Rocks area of Sydney until they went astray. Story is they stowed away on a mystery ship bound for Greece and were never heard of again. But Den has been busy tracing his family tree, bit of a lemon really, and has found that Les B Ann is a result of their asignations with a big coulored 'gentleman' from Barry. Said his name was Burly Chassis. Story is he ended up on Paxo well and truly stuffed because the wheel man was no good at fractions, all he could think of was friction and it was the frcition between Burly Chassis and Gypsy Tart that brought about Les B Ann. Now if Alf does not learn where the box is kept for the compass who knows what or who may turn up next?

[alf corbyn]

hi lads i found the box for the compass but some greedy bludger has drunk the achahol out of it and not just a fraction either, so i'll have to do like the vikings and turn the ship athwartship to the sun at midday and measure where the mast falls (sorry shadow of the mast) been around me aint i?. go figure. cheers. alf

[Michael Lawrence]

Hey Alf old son don't go fretting I've an old 'Silva' compass you can borrow. It's even got a landyarn so you can hang it round your neck. That way if your vertical to the sun or horizontal it won't matter. If we use the 'Master's' chart(1968 Esso Atlas) complete with curry stains and the tomato paste from the bridge sarnies we use to feed 'em you should find most places. I understand the Queen has asked if there's a spare berth for Phillip and being he's Greek methinks we could use him especially in Paxo. I think this is very Sage advice I'm offering. Well must go as Mum's called me in for my tea. Mike