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Forum: Mess Deck 23rd April 2024, 16:47
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Of course there's a bulb in it. I can hear it...

Of course there's a bulb in it. I can hear it rattling about when I shake it.

Bully? It's not me with the four rings.
Forum: Mess Deck 22nd April 2024, 14:17
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Depends at which end the bubbles are featuring. ...

Depends at which end the bubbles are featuring.

Top end, fine (and did some lunching Friday).

Bottom end, suggest porta and bothiebathjuice bad for gut flora/fauna (and any planned appearances...
Forum: Mess Deck 16th April 2024, 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
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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
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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: Mess Deck 25th March 2024, 17:26
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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
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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: Mess Deck 7th March 2024, 14:34
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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
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Posted By Varley
League? The school fees were surely wasted.

League? The school fees were surely wasted.
Forum: Mess Deck 5th March 2024, 12:52
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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: 9,008
Views: 1,689,978
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: Mess Deck 18th February 2024, 11:11
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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
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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: Mess Deck 1st February 2024, 18:53
Replies: 9,008
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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: 9,008
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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: Mess Deck 14th January 2024, 16:13
Replies: 9,008
Views: 1,689,978
Posted By Varley
I don't think aircraft carrier plans include...

I don't think aircraft carrier plans include sailing without a group of warships in support. A fleet (in modern arithmetic).

(I doubt it means the MN has gained an aircraft carrier! If so we would...
Forum: Mess Deck 9th January 2024, 11:42
Replies: 9,008
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Posted By Varley
Our departure lounge card only gives us half fare...

Our departure lounge card only gives us half fare on the railway (it's seen as recreational and a way of earning from visitors rather than transport).
Forum: Mess Deck 6th January 2024, 12:10
Replies: 9,008
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Posted By Varley
White Shield? Pa praised it as the cheapest...

White Shield? Pa praised it as the cheapest alcohol and also for gut health (by including the bottle bottom dregs one ensured a slow moving gut became rather more athletic).

(Whisky, however, both...
Forum: Mess Deck 29th December 2023, 12:13
Replies: 9,008
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Posted By Varley
The cats wouldn't get up that early for breakfast...

The cats wouldn't get up that early for breakfast - but if anyone else did they'd be at the table in a flash.
Forum: Mess Deck 28th December 2023, 14:03
Replies: 9,008
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Posted By Varley
Ross or Rosse? I knew of the astronomy but it was...

Ross or Rosse? I knew of the astronomy but it was a second son, Sir Charles who made headlines with the steam turbine and DC - also associated with Clarke Chapman. Perhaps of interest I cite Clarke...
Forum: Mess Deck 27th December 2023, 18:04
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Posted By Varley
I am a heathen not a Philistine! Turkey...

I am a heathen not a Philistine!

Turkey consigned mainly to the curry sauce but also the less appealing bits to swarm of ankle-eight cats.

This PM have taken last scrapings for their dinner...
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