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"The boy stood on the burning deck, eating a 3d Walls,
It melted down his trousers leg and paralysed his spherical appendages."
Usually quoted by Mum or Dad if we complained about what we thought was an injustice. Also if a minor accident happened, the stock retort from the parents was,
"Worse things happen at sea."
However if a winter storm was in full force with howling winds and rain, hail, sleet or snow,the parents would say,
"Pity the poor sailor on a night like this."
Parents, eh?
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"You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time towards the open sea. It goes. That's all." Bernard Moitessier.
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