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Old 10th September 2021, 23:48
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We're gonna need a bigger bacofoil hat !!
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Should the cause be, as I suspect, accidentally having the wrong sort of tobacco rolled into one's Havana then I can assure E v H that drug and alcohol policy makes the syndrome an unlikely candidate,
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Philadelphia experiment.

I'd forgotten all about that! There was a book, I read it a very long time ago.



But, from what I recall, couldn't the ship be transported from the canal with a push of the correct button?
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Old 11th September 2021, 16:19
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Old 11th September 2021, 21:45
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Except skiing through a revolving door.
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Not if the door is big enough.
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Let the radius of the door be R
Let the speed of rotation of the door be 5 rpm
Let the linear speed of the skier be x metres per second (Brexiteers can use meters per fortnight)

Using Algebra, Geometry, Calculus and a Sextant from the attic determine whether the door has 2 or 4 compartments. Assume the skier is Ronnie Corbett and g=9.81 thingies.

Do not attempt to validate your answer in Klosters but it will be appreciated in Aviemore.
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Old 12th September 2021, 11:09
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Well .... the answer lois in the soil .... and it's in pecks and bushels as all country folks knows.

For townies, think the length of the good King Henry VIII's arm.

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Evergiven is now in Qingdao. What now. ??

32 vessels have arrived in port in the last 24 hours and 199 due in next 100 days

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A bellyful of rubbish for the Christmas market and a December drydock in Europe, everybody wins.
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Old 19th September 2021, 15:58
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Who knows, maybe she can do a repeat performance in the canal en route back to europe.
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Old 20th September 2021, 10:12
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Who knows, maybe she can do a repeat performance in the canal en route back to europe.
As the late, great Jimmy Greaves, RIP, would have said; shipping, "it's a funny old game".
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Old 20th September 2021, 11:09
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Can we use en route in this context? Anything stuck is not really rooting anywhere. Well, not in a good way.
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Old 20th September 2021, 13:04
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Perhaps "transiting" the canal to europe would be a better term.
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Old 21st September 2021, 09:01
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Whatever you call it dont say "transitioning the canal" or you will get hate mail and threats from the cut and shut brigade.
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Old 21st September 2021, 10:10
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Right now, going nowhere in particular.
Anchored - sailing around a bit - anchored again.
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Old 21st September 2021, 11:31
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You are right (politically anyway) those happy people should certainly not attempt the canal just because they now have another crack to get sand in.

(Or perhaps 'address the canal' would be the appropriate dimensionally neutered expression. After all a golfer 'addresses' the ball without the certainty of it making it to a hole).
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Old 21st September 2021, 15:43
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Perhaps "transiting" the canal to europe would be a better term.
Or alternatively, why not “On passage towards Europe”?

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Old 21st September 2021, 16:05
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Tanker speak, LEFO.
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Old 21st September 2021, 17:03
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Whatever happened to: "Went down the cut." ?
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Old 21st September 2021, 17:19
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Went down the cut? Surely wenting implies movement, the phrase should reflect lack of wenting or, perhaps, ignorance of wenting.

LEFO? That's fine. As Erimus has recalled here Morar might have passed the same 'seamarks' with the ambition of complying with orders but with both positive and negative wenting so arithmetically not wenting at all. Not so much stuck in sand as insufficient puff.
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Old 21st September 2021, 19:34
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Is it a cut or a ditch? I have heard both used.
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Old 21st September 2021, 19:36
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In the Midlands canals are referred to as 'the cut.' A ditch is somewhere you might sleep temporarily on the way home from the pub.
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Old 21st September 2021, 20:15
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The Big Ditch was something you tried to avoid falling into at Trafford docks after a walk up the road!
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Old 3rd October 2021, 13:38
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Repairs maybe??
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