virtual crazy gang, part II

[Farmer John]

Docking Kingston tomorrow A.M.

There is a need for caution in Jamaica, great place but risky to wander.

[billyboy]

Jamaica? ...No she wanted to!

Be some decent old Jamaicie Rum for us to buy there then. Might pick up a tray of ginger cake too!

[Farmer John]

If you get a big Ginger cake and steep it in Rum, this would be a good thing.

Or if you get a big Ginger cake...

Or steep yourself in Rum...

[Engine Serang]

McVitie's Jamaica Ginger Cake is good enough for me.

[billyboy]

By heck this local Rum has some bite to it. Reckon I will be hand propelled up the gangway tonight. legs like rubber and head spinning already. BurrrrrrrrrP!.....Hic!

[Varley]

Dear me!I woke to the fear of pole-slip. You need to get your head dynamically balanced. Perhaps if you bathed in the stuff (as Blucher did with gin - improved his equestrian balance post cannon ball).

[Engine Serang]

Originally Posted by Varley

Dear me!I woke to the fear of pole-slip. You need to get your head dynamically balanced. Perhaps if you bathed in the stuff (as Blucher did with gin - improved his equestrian balance post cannon ball).

Blucher, as you call him, or "Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt , Graf (count), elevated to Fürst von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal), as he is known in Larne, was assisted by the Duke of Wellington to win the battle of Waterloo. The Duke or Mr Wellesley as he is known in Dublin, the town of his birth( not in a stable), ended up as PM and a bit of a rake. ~Perhaps Boris could use him as a role model.

Isn't history wild interesting.

[Varley]

I prefer Sir Arthur's description of his birthplace, thank you. You are only jealous in that Irish Peerages were employed as 'starter' awards (Duncan was offered one for his service during the 1797 mutinies. Fortunately his later service in preventing de Winter from landing Wolfe Tone near his Grace's hometown secured him one in a peerage of one of his Majesty's more senior Realms).

[Farmer John]

Alas, we must leave Kingston soon, suggestions for a destination awaited, what we are carrying anywhere will take. An island destination would be good. I have just read Joshua Slocum's tale of sailing around the world, he seemed to meet some very nice people.

Thank heavens we have no Pax on board right now, they all, sadly, seem to in quarantine somewhere. Inside cabin with 3500 on board and your credit running out, it can't be funny.

[Engine Serang]

Originally Posted by Varley

I prefer Sir Arthur's description of his birthplace, thank you. You are only jealous in that Irish Peerages were employed as 'starter' awards (Duncan was offered one for his service during the 1797 mutinies. Fortunately his later service in preventing de Winter from landing Wolfe Tone near his Grace's hometown secured him one in a peerage of one of his Majesty's more senior Realms).

Sir Arthur was a pompous prick and a bully and nowhere near as nice as the gifted Stephen Fry.

My advice is to sail away at Eco-Speed to give that bloody virus time to blow itself out. Free Pratique is becoming more difficult to obtain.
We are well able to entertain ourselves on a slow steam to Mombasa and LM. I suggest a series of themed Pub Lunches and evening darts and cribbage competitions. Varley hates to be beaten at crib.
Testing Times.

[Varley]

How dare you try and trump me as an arbiter of pomposity!

I do not play crib (nor whist). I hate to be beaten at chess and should my familiarity with 'go' advance beyond the beginner, that too. At Croquet too I prefer to win, but it's more necessary to keep one's temper when losing. The weapons are heavier than chess pieces but my team is regularly threatened with becoming a bump under the turf for not playing their best.

[Engine Serang]

They play chess with mallets or boathooks in Prague or Brno or similar unpronounceable Eastern European city with little loss of blood.
A rubber of Bridge is a jolly way to pass an evening slow steaming.

[Tmac1720]

anyone fancy a game of Uckers? Contrary to popular conjecture among you deckie type persons us injuneers do NOT indulge in "hide the sausage" .... or "polishing the golden rivet", we prefer a more "satisfactory" pastime and the preservation of our eye sight.

Varley is most welcome to use our patent H&W chess set, good upper arm exercise as each piece weighs 7 cwt and the board is impossible to kick into the air when defeat stares one in the face.

[Tmac1720]

Originally Posted by Engine Serang

They play chess with mallets or boathooks in Prague or Brno or similar unpronounceable Eastern European city with little loss of blood.
A rubber of Bridge is a jolly way to pass an evening slow steaming.

What the hell use is a rubber bridge?... I fear you are losing the plot young sir and require some further injuneering instruction

Chess with mallets and boat hooks... pah amateurs... you should experience the H&W chess method.....NOT for the faint hearted

[Varley]

I have gone some way to an H&W set. The outside board is stone flags. I did get a Bishop and a Knight stolen by yobs due to the light weight. The little bastards may just get them as far as the river Glass now that I've filled them with gravel but the hernias stop them there dead - mind you they don't float as well (and nor do the pieces).

Don't do cards at all. Especially ones where one needs that sort of prophylactic whilst still at the table.

[Engine Serang]

A prophylactic! Call it a Rubber Johnnie like everyone else.

[Engine Serang]

Heading for bunk, Storm Ciara is buggering up my indigestion, hold the Full Ulster I'll have a boiled egg in the morning.

And I've put the engineers back on watch for tonight, in my book electronics and storm force winds don't mix.

[Varley]

I had imagined even an Hibernian bothie was proof against a wintry blast. Buggery and indigestion don't mix. Remember the Ministry of Information "Loose stool ain't cool".

[Engine Serang]

My Inbox says "0 Unread Posts".
To amuse myself I've posted one. How entertaining is that?

[Varley]

I think you should tell us. If you give it a good write up I may try it myself.

[Tmac1720]

That doesn't work for me, I tried that but only received a "return to sender" response

I note nobody accepted my offer of a game of Uckers.... what a selfish lot of uckers you are but that's OK I am more than happy to play with myself

[Farmer John]

Is all this moving us along in a maritime direction? Tmac, how are things masheenery wise, can we slowly make our way somewhere? Varley, have you any messages of a cargo orientated nature? ES, don't do that, someone will only have to clean it up. Sir William, do you have any destinational preferences?

Anyone have any Naughtical thoughts? I'm sat here watching rain the likes of which I have never seen and reading reports of flooding, take me away on the wings of the Golden Dreamer from my muddy boots, sodden sheep and frozen hands.

[Tmac1720]

As always FJ the injuns is in fine fettle, all you need to do is point the sharp end of GD in your desired direction, select first gear (release handbrake) and orft we go.

I believe Varley has selected pages torn from his schoolboy atlas which you may find of assistance. They are quite old as David is of the age when the world was thought to be flat but nevertheless should suffice for your purpose.

You are wasting your time telling ES not to do that, I fear the lad will come to a sticky end.

[Varley]

I can provide data for the electronic contraption directing idiot seafarers having digitised all the red bits in my preparatory school atlas (which is as Tmac points out, lots and lots of it - with no need for star-sights). I don't understand the flat comment. Of course it is flat, whoever heard of an atlas with round pages?

I am afraid I have heard nothing from agents about cargo have you checked the galleysat?.

(I think E-S used "amusing" not "abusing" but then one leads to the other I suppose).

[Engine Serang]

Holy Mackerel BillyBoy has laid out a Rhum Line course to Abyssinia with a waypoint off The Afars and Issas, a vague feeling of uneasiness is descending upon me.
We hear so little from the Bridge then a mild admonishment about O Level geography, perhaps BB & FJ want to give us all six of the best.