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#3051
5th June 2018, 01:37
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I am a year and a couple of weeks behind you! Has the party started yet? Hope that there is some Coke for me. 
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#3052
5th June 2018, 07:22
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Can only vaguely remember what we were doing at this time of night back then! 
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#3053
5th June 2018, 07:38
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This day 50 years ago I mitched off school for the afternoon. I was thumbing a lift to the local village, a lorry stopped and I climbed in. The driver wondered if he was breaking the law by helping me to mitch school and thought it was a great joke, then he said did I hear the One o'clock news that Robert Kennedy had been shot in America. Most people remember where they were when they heard President Kennedy was shot but I remember his brother.
Not as exciting as a birthday or wedding anniversary but there you are. Steward, a dignified tray of Samuel Adams, if you please.
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#3056
5th June 2018, 12:10
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David V Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right It is the duty of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan
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#3057
5th June 2018, 13:13
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Happy birthday Billy boy, you don't look a day over 70. Well done.
 Tom, I hope that you and Mrs Tom celebrated your milestone in spectacular fashion.  I trust that you showered her with flowers.I'm sure that Billy boy has really turned it on for us with lots of whatever it is that we like to partake of. Oh, a Schooner of Dom, don't mind if I do. Here's to Life, Love and Friendships' forged along the way. Dear me, I knew I shouldn't have had a schooner of Dom it does make me all sentimental and teary. 
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#3058
5th June 2018, 15:11
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Its a bit like Haleys Comet, it was heard in Govan in the 60's, Knightsbridge Green about '74, Corn Exchange Buildings in 1978, Glasgow in 1981 and only made it to H&W in 2018. May the Lord in his mercy look down on Belfast.
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#3059
5th June 2018, 15:12
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58 years - a great achievement - congratulations.  For Mrs A, please (in case you forgot). YM
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#3060
5th June 2018, 19:35
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Happy Birthday mate and may you enjoy many, many more with the lovely Irene by your side.
 
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#3061
5th June 2018, 19:42
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Congratulations Tom on 58 years.
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#3062
5th June 2018, 19:46
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 I lived in St Vincent Street when I was 4 !!!! how the hell did you know that?  I must confess I nicked that line from Billy Connolly
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#3064
6th June 2018, 06:41
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Here's to the whole lot of us ----
(And thanks for all for your sentiments) Damn -- I think I'll have another one as I think it was Gilbert Harding used to say.
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#3066
6th June 2018, 09:34
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Left hand down a bit...
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#3067
6th June 2018, 19:36
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Hot off the press:
"The UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) issued an amended Marine Guidance Note regarding alcohol limits for mariners on UK vessels worldwide and for vessels operating in UK waters. The new limit for blood is 0.05% or 50 milligram in 100 milliliters. The new limit for breath is 0.25 milligrams per liter of 25 micrograms in 100 milliliters. MGN 590 (M+F)". How in Gods name are we supposed to run a ship with drivel like that coming from the Board of Trade? I feel a nose bleed and a sense of humour failure coming on.
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#3068
6th June 2018, 19:41
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Never fret yersel ES, as an injuneer you ken fine well when faced with a breathalyser a quick mouthful of bunker oil works wonders. I love the expression on their face when the wee machine melts in their hand..
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7th June 2018, 00:30
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Sir Wilhelm.. just switched over to a new single malt in the shipboard beverage delivery system... here's the combination to unlock it in your cabin.. ### ## ##### #
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7th June 2018, 06:02
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OK, OK, I know there's more elaborate machinery and shaft drives in the GD but this is a nostalgia site after all. Adjusting the amount of blood in my alcohol stream as we speak!!
Last edited by Tom Alexander; 7th June 2018 at 06:08.
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#3072
7th June 2018, 06:07
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#3073
7th June 2018, 10:50
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[QUOTE=Tom Alexander;14357]
After all we do need steady nerves, especially when docking in a 20 knot cross wind, and with the injun room calling up to tell us there's just enough air for 2 more starts. OK, OK, I know there's more elaborate machinery and shaft drives in the GD but this is a nostalgia site after all. QUOTE] God help your wit Tom. Has Tmac not told you that our machinery is held together by brown paper and bailer twine. At any one time we have enough air for 2 starts or 3 toots on the whistle. Down below we will keep our alcohol levels between the Lower and Upper Explosive Limits.
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7th June 2018, 21:53
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ES, the whole thing is to keep smiling and confidence will follow.
I will just give a few toots on the whistle to celebrate all the good things in life. The old atom pile will top things up, just don't mention it.
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#3075
7th June 2018, 22:00
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Not even super turbo powered Preparation H can help atomic piles.
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