"Handless landsmen. Say that three times. " Topic

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Winston Smith	08 Jan 2019 12:48 p.m. PST
I just got some boats to supplement my collection of boats I never got around to selling when I sold my pirates for food money. Naturally, or not, I had some scenarios in mind. A raiding party in Boston or on Long Island is trying to load booty and loot. I decided to differentiate between regiments or companies that knew their way around ships or boats (Massachusetts or Long Island units) and those that could hunt deer or plow fields. The distinction would be important. Somehow. I decided to call the lubbers "handless landsmen", because that is what Mr Bush would have called them in a Hornblower story. But… try to say that three times. Or once. Landless handsmen? As soon as you say that, you can't get it out of your mind or off your tongue. But I shall endeavor to persevere. Do you have a simple phrase that ties your tongue in knots? In reverse, I don't think I would want to take those maritime gentlemen along to take Fort Niagra. The fact that Braddock had sailors along is not an endorsement.
etotheipi	08 Jan 2019 1:20 p.m. PST
According to SWMBO, mine is, "I'm sorry.".
Soaring Soren	08 Jan 2019 1:33 p.m. PST
Never try to say "toy boat" three times fast. You'll feel like an idiot if you do. At least I always did, until I quit trying to say it…
Winston Smith	08 Jan 2019 1:51 p.m. PST
Booty and loot. Booty and loot. Looty and boot…
21eRegt	08 Jan 2019 3:30 p.m. PST
Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers
Bashytubits	08 Jan 2019 4:12 p.m. PST
A flea and a fly flew through a flaw in the flue They didn't know what to do Let us flee said the fly Let us fly said the flea So they flew through the flaw in the flue
skippy0001	08 Jan 2019 4:14 p.m. PST
Chronosynclasticindifibulum.
von Schwartz	08 Jan 2019 7:30 p.m. PST
I want a definition of that last one.
miniMo	08 Jan 2019 8:25 p.m. PST
Not quite as scary as Headless Hessian.
skippy0001	09 Jan 2019 2:08 a.m. PST
Chrono…Synclastic…Indifibulum From Kut Vonnegut's Tralfamodore aliens-A Space-Time Continuum Drive Effect.?
7th Va Cavalry	09 Jan 2019 6:16 p.m. PST
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
von Schwartz	09 Jan 2019 7:21 p.m. PST
Kurt Vonnegut, which book is that, I thought I had read them all?
Virtualscratchbuilder	10 Jan 2019 5:26 a.m. PST
Thesaurus. Usually comes out seethorus after the second or third time.