And you weren't only dead, you were embalmed! :supercool:

Tannoy: attention all crew. there will be a Pre-Docking party in the PAX lounge in half an hour. On my tab so all welcome. Steward!, Notify engine room staff will you theres a good chap. Bulkhead phone apears to be not ringing down there.

Too much time in the paint stores! Where are we arriving now? I should know this, as First Ossifer "Recently passed Test", I left some marks on the chart that couldn't be licked off.

My sentiments entirely, FJ. In my position as Commodore. I thought I would know that we were still in Melbourne, not having been notified of any movement, bowel or otherwise. I can only presume our illustrious owner, Sir William has snuck us around the Coast to our next destination of Freemantle. :)

Illustrious owner, shurly an oxymoo/oxxymoe/whatever
I'm not a great supporter of owners and a big fan of Co-Ops.


I am now putting everyone on notice that with Brexit imminent and comrade Corbyn heading for No 10 the Injun Room Crowd will be putting out a Plank and Owners and their running dogs may be walking it. Then we can cruise to St Petersburg and Sochi and re-flag to the USSR.

Good-oh. I have always wanted to build a digital telegraph transmitter that would accept many different commands and meld them into one consensus engine movement order. I have always felt it unseemly with standard transmitters. Half the crowd squabbling over the wheelhouse lever and the sneaky bastards trying to take the canvass cover of the bridge wing to steal a march.

Free collective ship handling is the technical term and the salvage industry considers it highly effective.

I think you are on your own, ES.

Sir William can collapse this whole fantasy with a flick of his golden wand. We'd find ourselves in a rowing boat on Manningham Park lake in Bradford, with dusk coming on and the Museum closed. No-one wants that.

No sign of the GD in Melbourne this morning.
Our prestigious berth at Port Melbourne seems to have been taken over by some tub called Queen Elizabeth.
GD hasn't slipped into invisible mode by accident or necessity has she?

I am sure GD is a stately lady and would have given way to a monarch.

Absolutely, no question about it. Cunard: British to the core. Gives you a warm feeling just thinking about it. Rule Britannia.
BTW is she discharging (disembarking) tourists or convicts?

I simply thought that I would do some of us a favour....Women on the Quay with small children in push chairs (strollers) and the CSA (child support agency). Not that I am guilty of course...had the firing pin removed many years back. only fores blanks these days. However I do know from crews medical records that there are those ampngst us who are fully loaded.

No - the GD is quietly cruising along the South Coast of Aus heading for Freemantle. I'm sure the owner will kick in with his Plutonium Credit Card (the one that "taps" even when there is no tap available and fries any device trying to hack the chip). to cover your air fare to re-join the ship.

I did think you might enjoy traveling to Perth by rail, but having been to Freemantle before, we might have had to make a hasty strategic withdrawal before you arrived. :)

I don't know about Melbourne but I have been to Dampier and I wouldn't even transport anyone from enemy occupied Hibernia there.

I don't know about Dampier, but I think it's a bit dryier why we are heading.

Also probably warmer than Hibernia as I think that's where all our polar bears go in the winter time. :D

Luke 23:34

Business class on Qantas will be fine thank you.
My last trip by rail on the Nullarbor followed something of a disaster and was on 'my private breakdown train' where the catering was better than both Qantas and the Indian Pacific albeit we travelled at a maximum speed of only 50 km/h.:jester:

try this one, Mark 11:24.

I did not do anything in a green tree. I don't think there were any.

(I would post about transportation still available, although not to Australia, in the early 20th C but I cannot crop the .pdf into which it was originally scanned).

As for Sir W talking to mountains and casting into the sea I suppose the Australians did that in a way but instead of the sea the mountain was mined away and we took it over the sea to Rotterdam. With the turbochargers surging nearly all the way, did His Late Majesty's fairy tale give any guidance on failed fuel valves?

Ezekiel 15:4, perhaps.

Was Ezekiel aware of Emission Control Areas? I rather think not. Ezekiel was regarded in the temple as a sulphurous little bugger and was not welcome in the smokeroom.. His only claim to fame is the song what he wrote for Boney M.

John 11 : 35.... and that was before the injuneers marked his card.

Hello I'm back again.... despite some silly bugger closing the cremation door before I got out.... very funny, I think not, lucky I had my Asbestos jock strap on otherwise a tragedy would have occurred.

What's with all the biblical references lately?... have we found God?? pardon me but I never knew he was missing in the first place but then again nobody bothers to tell the poor injuneers anything. First we know we have arrived anywhere is a furious dinging on the telemagraph thingie and a bump as we hit the quay.

Anyhoo normal service has been resumed in the injun room so I expect the usual tribute of Black Bush toot sweet.

It is said that Charlemagne had an asbestos table cloth (that is a cloth made of asbestos tailored for the dining table and not a cloth for the purposes of covering an asbestos table). He would show off its fire proof attributes by putting it in a fire which also doubled as laundering it.

Can I suggest both you and Ezekiel would be more welcome in the smokeroom if you tried that out with your loinproofing (but taking in E-S's warning - not in a SECA or ECA).

A lady of my acquaintance once asked during coitus if I could smell anything? just the aroma of burning rubber my dear. :jester:

Many moons ago in Singapore an Eastern lady (indeed, but loosely termed) in similar circumstances asked me "Dayveee are you Finnish".

To this day I do not know what the Devil Nationality had to do with anything.