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Showing posts with label The Bounding Main. Show all posts
May 9, 2015

Quote of the Week, (Destroyer Sailor Edition)

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From the youngest of the heirs to Camp Jiggleview, of which I am Commandant, upon reporting aboard his first salt-water ride: It's ver...
Dec 6, 2014

Nautical Distractions (6)

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Immediate drama is over for the youngest heir to Camp Jiggleview, of which I am Commandant. He graduated from boot camp. We had an excelle...
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Nov 15, 2014

Nautical Distractions (5): One More Sunday

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Naaah, not  John D. McDonald's "One More Sunday" laying bare the absolute corruption of the teevee-preacher industry. I mean...
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Sep 23, 2014

Nautical distractions (4)

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If I am not mistaken, today will go down in the history of a small Iowa city as the Day the Beard Got Flushed .  Tomorrow the fre...
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Aug 28, 2014

Nautical Distractions (3)

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A lad for whom I hold infinite affection has just turned 19. When he is precisely 19 years and one month old he will have heard this phrase:...
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Aug 3, 2014

Zippo side bar (or) Nautical Considerations (2)

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Let me tell how it was in the Old Navy, Son. We all smoked. A few limpies carried Ronsons to illustrate their elevation above the common h...
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Jun 20, 2014

Nautical Distractions (1)

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Ahoy. A personal event directs my thoughts back many years, to boot camp where a lad's exposure to sea stories begins. He learns almos...
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