Stranded in the Suez Canal

[BobClay]

We're gonna need a bigger bacofoil hat !!

[Varley]

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,

[E. von Hoegh]

Originally Posted by Lancsman

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?

[Lancsman]

Anything is possible.

[E. von Hoegh]

Except skiing through a revolving door.

[Lancsman]

Not if the door is big enough.

[Engine Serang]

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.

[BobClay]

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.

(Nibbles in binary. )

[R58484957]

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

[Engine Serang]

A bellyful of rubbish for the Christmas market and a December drydock in Europe, everybody wins.

[Lancsman]

Who knows, maybe she can do a repeat performance in the canal en route back to europe.

[Engine Serang]

Originally Posted by Lancsman

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".

[Varley]

Can we use en route in this context? Anything stuck is not really rooting anywhere. Well, not in a good way.

[Lancsman]

Perhaps "transiting" the canal to europe would be a better term.

[Biggles Wader]

Whatever you call it dont say "transitioning the canal" or you will get hate mail and threats from the cut and shut brigade.

[Malcolm G]

Right now, going nowhere in particular.
Anchored - sailing around a bit - anchored again.

[Varley]

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).

[Howardang]

Originally Posted by Lancsman

Perhaps "transiting" the canal to europe would be a better term.

Or alternatively, why not “On passage towards Europe”?

Howard

[Engine Serang]

Tanker speak, LEFO.

[BobClay]

Whatever happened to: "Went down the cut." ?

[Varley]

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.

[Malcolm G]

Is it a cut or a ditch? I have heard both used.

[BobClay]

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.

[rogd]

The Big Ditch was something you tried to avoid falling into at Trafford docks after a walk up the road!

[Lancsman]

Repairs maybe??