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    And the Americans didnt give you a Purple Heart Brian ? Cheers JS
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    No Purple Heart,
    But in 2013 Valentines Day, I was being released from the Hospital
    in Honolulu, Hawaii. after three weeks in there, Two Life Saving operations,
    12 Nurses lined up and Kissed me . It doesnt happen here

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Kong View Post
    12 Nurses lined up and Kissed me . It doesn't happen here

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    Brian, sometimes you have to count your blessings, too many male nurses around these days!

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    Brian.
    When you enter Heaven, God will say, "That man there in the back, come forward you must be my brother ,only God's survive those sort of accidents, come, sit alongside me I love a good tale.

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    Brian, no mention of fingers there so I guess you never gave any one 'the finger' LOL
    Happy daze John in Oz.

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    Quote Originally Posted by happy daze john in oz View Post
    Brian, no mention of fingers there so I guess you never gave any one 'the finger' LOL
    Brian had fish fingers long before Captain Birdseye

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    You were blessed!

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    #1 Hi Brian I so agree, sailing on tramp steamers around the world visiting places hardly changed since Captain Cook's ship dropped anchor in the bays, no highrise concrete hotels lining the beaches, long before jet travel, package holidays and the 1000s of tourists disembarking from the gigantic liners. The dusky maidens, tropical islands, carva, cubalibra, 1000 yen to the pound, the perfumed night air, and so on, like you say, those days are gone, where ships flying the red ensign visited the remotest parts of the globe, and then returning to pay off in Britain, telling landlubbers of our adventures, small town boys who had been never further than Rhyl, wishing they too were seafarers. Yeap, sadly those days are gone forever. PC

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    And the 5 big bottles of Asahi beer to a 1000 yen , 6 bottles if you could wangle yourself into the Japanese only bars . JS
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    #7 what happened to the left knee Brian ? Bitten by a mosquito. ? The little baskets like getting a man when he’s down. Reminds me when I brought Captain Hort back from Dakar to Rotterdam,stuck a small plaster on his healed stab wound and told him to show it to the Daily Expresss on their asking , to make amends for their untruthful repoerting in the first instance. Cheers JS
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