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Forum: Mess Deck Today, 14:07
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Posted By Varley
Well. It is one explanation.

Well. It is one explanation.
Forum: Mess Deck 14th April 2024, 18:58
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Posted By Varley
I have received no requests from either Abi or...

I have received no requests from either Abi or Charlie. Is there something artistically unappealing about my genitalia?
Forum: Mess Deck 14th April 2024, 13:59
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Posted By Varley
I had no idea that the xylophonist astronomer was...

I had no idea that the xylophonist astronomer was a connoisseur also of fizz. Even he, I suggest, would not consider the terroir of Mars suitable until he had had it tested. I don't think he was from...
Forum: Mess Deck 13th April 2024, 12:12
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Posted By Varley
Foreign fizz? Henners is the stuff. Support your...

Foreign fizz? Henners is the stuff. Support your local sheriff (or at least the compliant sheriff that is closest to you). Quite up to snuff without the need for your vile habit of adding tincture of...
Forum: Mess Deck 10th April 2024, 18:20
Replies: 9,004
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Posted By Varley
Bugger. I put the weekly allowance on the...

Bugger. I put the weekly allowance on the undertaker at 3:1. Now someone else will have to buy the fizz at Friday Lunch.

Next time I'll hedge with a Yankee including Oldgit.

(Actually, despite...
Forum: Mess Deck 7th April 2024, 19:23
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Posted By Varley
I chinesed along with my recent boss and others...

I chinesed along with my recent boss and others of the usual suspects last night (much enjoyed by all - Chinatown for those interested).

If one wants to be committed to a nice restful hospital...
Forum: Mess Deck 4th April 2024, 16:48
Replies: 9,004
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Posted By Varley
Didn't Nanny tell you that scraping it only makes...

Didn't Nanny tell you that scraping it only makes it worse?

(I'll take it I can keep the Bahco and the three cell Brightstar if no news come Wednesday).
Forum: The Pig & Whistle 30th March 2024, 17:41
Replies: 6
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Posted By Varley
Did you check the stability booklet before you...

Did you check the stability booklet before you set-off?
Forum: Mess Deck 25th March 2024, 17:26
Replies: 9,004
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Posted By Varley
I may have lived in the reigns of three monarchs...

I may have lived in the reigns of three monarchs now but none of those were Kings Edward I, II and III ! I Google that the place was whelmed by 1350 (although it didn't say if that was BST or proper...
Forum: Mess Deck 24th March 2024, 11:40
Replies: 9,004
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Posted By Varley
I passed QuarterBridge on my afternoon...

I passed QuarterBridge on my afternoon constitutional. The boys in blue were on point-duty dolled up for ceremonial traffic duty.

Had I known HM(Qc)was due so imminently I would have waited to...
Forum: The Pig & Whistle 19th March 2024, 11:09
Replies: 15
Views: 516
Posted By Varley
Only the clever boys got to do 'literature'. (As...

Only the clever boys got to do 'literature'. (As with Greek at St.Wilfrid's). At Reeds they no longer sought to teach the Latin even we stupids had had to take until then. Biology (dropped),...
Forum: Mess Deck 7th March 2024, 14:34
Replies: 9,004
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Posted By Varley
I walk paste Sir William's tomb quite often. He...

I walk paste Sir William's tomb quite often. He rather steals the thunder the early, more local, institutions that came before. South Shields, the site of much good marine 'stuff', being one - if not...
Forum: Mess Deck 7th March 2024, 12:10
Replies: 9,004
Views: 1,675,786
Posted By Varley
League? The school fees were surely wasted.

League? The school fees were surely wasted.
Forum: The Pig & Whistle 7th March 2024, 12:06
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Views: 595,671
Posted By Varley
Pa (RN for the war) was fond of telling us that...

Pa (RN for the war) was fond of telling us that the RAF always had the best nicknames. His favourite was for army types, "Brown jobs". Another I heard from a AAIB presentation "Mechanical palm trees"...
Forum: Mess Deck 5th March 2024, 12:52
Replies: 9,004
Views: 1,675,786
Posted By Varley
Are you sure the insulating tape helps with the...

Are you sure the insulating tape helps with the electrostimulation?
Forum: Mess Deck 26th February 2024, 10:53
Replies: 9,004
Views: 1,675,786
Posted By Varley
Naughts and crosses. Lucky it's not eastern...

Naughts and crosses. Lucky it's not eastern medicine - a Go layout would be very painful to remove.

(E-S. Indeed. Hardly Michelangelo, not on a good day anyway - he did say that he did not sculpt...
Forum: Stormy Weather 24th February 2024, 13:07
Replies: 9
Views: 1,148
Posted By Varley
If registered in Britain or other Red Ensign...

If registered in Britain or other Red Ensign group territory then vessel must be owned by persons or corporate entity 'native' to that territory and should fly red ensign. When a corporate entity is...
Forum: Mess Deck 18th February 2024, 11:11
Replies: 9,004
Views: 1,675,786
Posted By Varley
There's 10 days by road between the two - get an...

There's 10 days by road between the two - get an inducements adjuster to calibrate the thing whilst off-limits Cape Town. Otherwise stick to the ECDIS or we won' be going 'up the road' but 'up the...
Forum: Mess Deck 12th February 2024, 12:15
Replies: 9,004
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Posted By Varley
Filling a carboy of Rochas for you now Sir. W. ...

Filling a carboy of Rochas for you now Sir. W.

Had to check for traces of bothie-bath-juice from the time those heathen plumbers tried to load on top in the port day tank.

As we haven't seen...
Forum: J & J Denholm 5th February 2024, 12:16
Replies: 8
Views: 1,628
Posted By Varley
John, I was ashore just in time to do the...

John, I was ashore just in time to do the Electrical approval of all the HHI vessels. They were good. The NKK Alcan ships were better (barring a misunderstanding over what is, and is not a check...
Forum: J & J Denholm 4th February 2024, 14:11
Replies: 8
Views: 1,628
Posted By Varley
I didn't know that, John. Guess finished before I...

I didn't know that, John. Guess finished before I joined (2003 ish) although not all things 'crewing' would have been anything to do with me. I did visit one of the HHI Conbulkers in the late 90s for...
Forum: J & J Denholm 3rd February 2024, 12:26
Replies: 8
Views: 1,628
Posted By Varley
Denholm had Transpetrol's Reliance but not same...

Denholm had Transpetrol's Reliance but not same as subject vessel.

I think David Gas had a connection with Dorchester/BSM but 'before my time' there.
Forum: Mess Deck 1st February 2024, 18:53
Replies: 9,004
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Posted By Varley
Rusty, The framed instructions came as part of my...

Rusty, The framed instructions came as part of my 21st birthday present from Brother. Along with a torch and some other marine related bric-a-brac that he thought would amuse his sailor boy sibling....
Forum: Mess Deck 31st January 2024, 14:43
Replies: 9,004
Views: 1,675,786
Posted By Varley
E-S I/C Plumbing? We're doomed, I tell ye,...

E-S I/C Plumbing? We're doomed, I tell ye, Doomed.

(Get dry soon Sir W. DPA has put the attached in the post but says you have to take it with you when you re-join as its vacant space on the...
Forum: The Pig & Whistle 27th January 2024, 13:28
Replies: 1,837
Views: 595,671
Posted By Varley
Then what use is there for the Daily Express,...

Then what use is there for the Daily Express, E-S? Think of the dispossessed of Fleet Street before taking from them what little they have.
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