Welcome back Tom. I will join you on the pool deck with pleasure.
Cheers!!

OK pedants, my Peltor H9A ear protectors, meeting requirement EN352-1:1993 and branded with a tasteful "WARTSILA NSD" logo.


TA's tab, from my long experience of drinking with him, is rationed like Victoria Sponge during the Blitz. Although Tmac is the sole member of the crew to live thro the Blitz, a teenager.

When those habitted wimin were our charges I thought I saw him wearing one, a sort of hearing strumpet, then.

Those habited wemin or strumpets as you so delicately put it, were Handmaids of the Lord. Lets have no more of it. OK!

We only have a knight in the company so they are rather over qualified for GD.

Are you sure they are only staff? I thought they were brides to a scion of the tribe of David (and, leading on, why exactly are we culturally monogamous when the figurehead signs them up on demand whilst his plenipotentiary on earth wants to kill Mr. Brown for suggesting he even had one?)

Old "Misery Guts" is very magnanimous with his tab unless some smart Alec down in the pit
pisses him off. Such persons? will suffer water in their beer, made in China Jamison's, AND the muff they wrap around their ears withdrawn and put to much better use. (I'm sure Tmac can find a use for a nice warm muff which is closely related to a Black Bush. ) :smoking:

Sparkie's on the medicinal cannabis again.

And someone is blowing his own trumpet.

I am always careful about trumpet blowing and the biblicals. Can do horrid things to Babylonian architecture.

(Do you think Mr. Buonarroti sculpted my best side?)

Eddie Calvert brought the house down.


Mick Angelo as he is known in East Antrim was a handy hoor with hammer and chisel but never got a commission to do King Billy on his horse. A failed career.

Wee Willie and a White Horse, drunk that as an apprentice....thanks for the memory :jester:

Aye indeed Tom many a warm muff has been most welcome on a dark winter night :supercool: warmed the bits that Heineken didn't reach.... nice girl Heineken, always very accommodating to injuneers with frozen tools. :wink:

Thats not what I heard from one of ther Nun's

Gottus a quick job due to our cloaking ability. Leaving in the dead of night for Havana -- load large quantity of Cuban rum and Havana cigars and return to Miami. Everything on the QT. We get to keep 25% of the shipment in payment for our services. We can leave a hologram of the GD alongside while we are away and we'll be back before anyone notices. :supercool: :supercool:

Nice one Tom. Quite partial to Havanahs fare as our Mr Varley, at least the cigars.

We could replace the GDs BSA Bantam runabout with one of those ancient Behemoths Cuba still has on its roads, they look quite regal and who hasn't dreamt of driving a massive gas-guzzling beast.

QT? Well that's convenient someone's steamed-up the Globespan again. We'll have to load slowly. I cannot do more than one quality sample per dinner.

can Harley wait to get my hands on one FJ

Make mine a 1960 cherry red Buick convertible with a white top and red leather upholstery. Had a friend in Winnipeg years ago that had a "59 -- and what a sweet ride -- like floating on a cloud -- and to hell with the price of gas -- would that thing ever go --- swoosh !! Just thought the '60 looked a little more refined with the shorter fins.

We have left for Havana and due to arrive in 15 minutes. Cargo already lined up on the quay ready for loading. Time machine function has restored Havana to it's 1950 "standards" for our pleasure. :pint:

'and what a sweet ride -- like floating on a cloud'

As a 'Yank tank' just wondering whether there was any connection with the road surface?
Did it go round corners?

(Sorry, I couldn't help it .............) :jester:

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Any connection with reality?
GD2 now has embellishments only known in Harland & Wolff's Skunk Works.
MI5, MI6, the PSNI and the Orange Order will use all sorts of Psy-Ops to expose the villain and then he will be found dead in a field or Knighted and given a gold plated pension.

H&W Skunk Works are at a top secret location. On Islandmagee just behind Ballylumford Power Station.

Top secret? Surely asphalting has not even been on patent for years.

You forgot to include the research station at Buckna, the test facility in Stranagalwilly near Balix in Tyrone. Also not forgetting the R and R facility in Muff :chuckle:

It isn't the Asphalting that is secret rather it's who is buried beneath it :eek::eek:

Go round corners YM? You want the moon.

Tom, we have "acquired" one, and not in bad nick. Fitted with a new engine and polished to the highest shine. We'll take her for a spin when we get back to Miami.

FJ you will certainly get a 'spin' regardless of the location. :hippy:

If that engine has been worked on by the locals, it's probably a Chrysler block with a Ford crankshaft and Pontiac heads. Could have Nash pistons and Oldsmobile connecting rods. Devilishly ingenious these local mechanics.

Main Engines on UMS as Tmac is spending all his time in the Steering Flat guarding a 1000 Flagon barrel of his special brew which he dispenses to one and all at his bonfire, sorry BBQ, on the eve of the Twelfth.
It is his contribution to the peace process, after a few schooners of his hootch only the strongest are able to stand up let alone march the following day. Last year TA did not appear until the 14th and Varley was not seen for a week. Would that we had a Twelfth every month, the ship would be a happier place.

We do have a twelfth every month it is what stops the thirteenth from slipping back.

It seems I have been taken at my word and some reliance is being placed on the growing of Hibernian praties in Manx soil although I have a sneaky suspicion that none returned from that heathen outpost of what should still be Empire because this visit was done as a foot passenger.

(Do we ever have passengers without feet I ask myself)

' .... (Do we ever have passengers without feet I ask myself) ....'

Some of the nuns did - I saw them.

Footloose and fancy-free is a phrase I have heard used (although perhaps not in the context of a closed order of nuns). Footless and pantyfree I have not. Are you sure you were not unseeing things?

It wouldn't be the first time of un-seeing things.

Yes - it did go round corners adding an admiral "G" force which we used to call a C.O.D. corner. (Come Over Darling !!) With no seat belts and a bench front seat, she would be laying flat on her back before she had any idea what was happening. :supercool:

NO we don't.

We have a 12th every month but only a twelfth in July.

It is quite obvious you didn't have the advantage of being born and raised in Norn Irn, poor boy. So sad.

Sometimes a Home Counties, Home Service upbringing can be a terrible disadvantage and when it happens it is all the more traumatic. FJ summon the Padre and the Doc and all the Nursing Corps to attend to the Wireless Shack, Depression has set in.

Oranges now is it? I am fed to the back teeth with the superiority of your damned potatoes and now it's something you don't even bloody grow for yourselves. I have a good mind to march for the banana (after all, Tilapa Tapper did do a month or two with Fyffes).

My Radio officer/electrician is not depressed. Disgustingly sober but not depressed.
Steward! Take this case of vintage port and a box of cigars to the Radio shack on the double.

I have just checked the engine under the bonnet of our new ship's runabout, we have definitely got a good one. Never knew Briggs and Stratton made a turbo V8. Good name.

Far be it for me to disagree with Sir W but to be found standing up should not be confused with positive sobriety (I agree a disgusting condition). Standing is possible when in negative sobriety. Especially when reaching for the in-watch bottle on top of the Globespan.

I won't turn down you kind offer, though, but I must have a look to why I can't start the bloody lawn mower.

OK Varley, we'll mow the lawn.

' OK Varley, we'll mow the lawn. '

Spin FJ ???
Are you, perhaps, a politician in your time ashore?
No doubt you will actually get your animals to mow the lawn. If you don't you should be a politician. :jester:

It seems that a lot of our crew are under the impression that because our '60 Buick Convertible has a Briggs and Stratton engine we will mow the lawn with it. Sacrilege indeed !!!!