Winston Smith  | 08 Jan 2019 11:48 a.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 12:20 p.m. PST |
According to SWMBO, mine is, "I'm sorry.". |
| Soaring Soren | 08 Jan 2019 12:33 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 12:51 p.m. PST |
Booty and loot.
Booty and loot.
Looty and boot… |
| 21eRegt | 08 Jan 2019 2:30 p.m. PST |
Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers
Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers
Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers |
 Bashytubits | 08 Jan 2019 3:12 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 3:14 p.m. PST |
Chronosynclasticindifibulum. |
| von Schwartz | 08 Jan 2019 6:30 p.m. PST |
I want a definition of that last one. |
 miniMo | 08 Jan 2019 7:25 p.m. PST |
Not quite as scary as Headless Hessian. |
| skippy0001 | 09 Jan 2019 1:08 a.m. PST |
Chrono…Synclastic…Indifibulum From Kut Vonnegut's Tralfamodore aliens-A Space-Time Continuum Drive Effect.? |
 7th Va Cavalry | 09 Jan 2019 5:16 p.m. PST |
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| von Schwartz | 09 Jan 2019 6:21 p.m. PST |
Kurt Vonnegut, which book is that, I thought I had read them all? |
 Virtualscratchbuilder  | 10 Jan 2019 4:26 a.m. PST |
Thesaurus. Usually comes out seethorus after the second or third time. |
