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Posted by Rod Posts 392 Registered at 2010-06-24 22:30:48	2013-06-07 02:20:06 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	Thanks for the effort..... No...it is the 'dot' at the end of this sentence. It can be made by:- 1. Pencil 2. pen 3, typewriter 4. teletype 5. printing press 6. computer printer 7. computer screen. 8. with a hammer and cold chisel if it is on your gravestone. It is called:- 1. "period" to end a sentence 2. "stop" to do the same 3. "Full stop" if you're English 4. "point" as in Pi = 3.14 5. "dot" if you're into dot.com 6. It has no name if you like money, $2.50 7. one plus a comma makes a semi-colon ( 8. two of them make a colon ( 9. one plus a squiggle asks a question (?) Hows all that for the smallest man-made object? If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
Posted by Rod Posts 392 Registered at 2010-06-24 22:30:48	2013-07-11 00:21:59 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	There was a young man from Brazil, Claimed that sailing made him ill, He fell in the water, Not that he ought 'a, But that was all that gave him a thrill. Yours, in favour of more poetry, we're all getting too serious....... Rod. --- Last Edited by Rod at 2013-07-11 00:23:39 --- --- Last Edited by Rod at 2013-07-11 00:24:00 --- --- Last Edited by Rod at 2013-07-11 00:30:23 --- --- Last Edited by Rod at 2013-07-11 00:31:57 --- If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
Posted by Smo Posts 80 Registered at 2009-05-02 21:49:04	2013-07-22 12:39:38 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	So HOT fast boat I once had it did FREEZE. Ice yahct it was. --- Last Edited by Slo Smo at 2013-07-22 12:40:19 --- --- Last Edited by Slo Smo at 2013-07-22 20:36:07 ---
Posted by 76Trombones Posts 362 Registered at 2009-08-03 18:04:56	2013-07-22 15:57:40 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	(Square Rigger racing) Four more for SOL Collected Works : In Estonia's a guy at the bar who Made for the fleet some boats that are "new". Poor sailors been SOL'd. Boat's 200 years old! Like crew's age when they get to Pärnu. We sail a few boats that are bigger. Though none that upwind need such vigor. It can't be that hard? Brace up that yard! Show who's boss of this ^$%# square-rigger. O'er the waves sounds a half-muttered chorus: "This tacking is starting to bore us..." To windward they're clawing, the tracks look like drawing the teeth of a Tryannosaurus! To starboard and port the ships darted. These ships are not for the fainthearted. It's a challenging rig! See them zag and then zig! Hoping not to end up where they started...
Posted by RainbowChaser Posts 2656 Registered at 2009-06-14 09:44:50	2013-11-22 10:24:05 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	Back to the top -- its been a while since we've seen new poetry on Sailonline! Where are our bards? our wordsmiths?!! P.S. I would try but am hopeless at limericks or rhyming ... always have been
Posted by A2 Posts 347 Registered at 2009-10-26 00:39:42	2013-12-12 22:48:28 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	Listen here, Now ain't that Easy, Watch rumskib do it Leading the race sailing the VMG. That ain't workin' that's the way you do it Get your money for nothin' & your chicks for free. Chorus Money for nothin' chicks for free Money for nothin' chicks for free Money for nothin' chicks for free (I want my, I want my VMG) --- Last Edited by A2R at 2013-12-13 01:52:31 --- None so blind
Posted by Rod Posts 392 Registered at 2010-06-24 22:30:48	2013-12-13 01:41:32 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	Ah wuz stim-you-lated t' 'rite some po-tree, 'Bout t' uses o' that there Gee-om-i-tree, T' figure all that there Vee-Em-Cee, Instead o' that there Vee-Em-Gee. Jes' aim at yer des-tin-ay-shon, Set a normal to thet line, yuh ken?? At thuh tangent t' that there butter-fly, Now yuh got it! V--M--C !! If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
Posted by Rod Posts 392 Registered at 2010-06-24 22:30:48	2013-12-13 01:55:27 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	The above, in ancient Anglic, was found inscribed on a stone found during an archeological dig at an old Huron village in Southern Ontario, and indicates that the ancient Anglians had navigated all the way to North America at about 600 A.D.----and were quite familiar with sailingonline.org at that time on their hand-cranked computers. --- Last Edited by Rod at 2013-12-13 01:57:45 --- If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
Posted by SCARABOCCHIO Posts 94 Registered at 2012-02-05 16:24:16	2014-06-29 20:36:29 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	report of my last race in Scandinavian Tour ... Hello SOLers … You have a comfortable chair? A cold beer? Good cider in the glass? An excellent glass of rum? The cigar is close at hand? Well, now I describe my race: … The Ship was cheer'd, the Harbour clear'd Merrily did we drop Below the Kirk, below the Hill, Below the Light-house top. The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the Sea came he: And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the Sea. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon A Wind and Tempest strong! For days and weeks it play'd us freaks Like Chaff we drove along. Mist and Snow, And it grew wond'rous cauld: And Ice mast-high came floating by As green as Emerauld. And thro' the drifts the snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen; Ne shapes of men ne beasts we ken The Ice was all between. The Ice was here, the Ice was there, The Ice was all around: It crack'd and growl'd, and roar'd and howl'd Like noises of a swound. At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the Fog it came; And an it were a Christian Soul, We hail'd it in God's name. The Marineres gave it biscuit-worms, And round and round it flew: The Ice did split with a Thunder-fit; The Helmsman steer'd us thro'. And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow; And every day for food or play Came to the Marinere's hollo! In mist or cloud on mast or shroud It perch'd for vespers nine, Whiles all the night thro' fog-smoke white Glimmer'd the white moon-shine "God save thee, ancyent Marinere!” (The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere - 1798 - by Samuel Taylor Coleridge) … "and once again SCARABOCCHIO didn't win ..." Fair Winds all … SOL is magic !!! (Carlo Alberto SCARABOCCHIO) --- Last Edited by SCARABOCCHIO at 2014-06-29 20:38:21 ---
Posted by Rod Posts 392 Registered at 2010-06-24 22:30:48	2014-06-30 16:15:08 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	I do me hope that, after Scara's efforts, that some erudite SOLer (if such exists) will feel the poetic mood overcome all reluctance, and will provide to us the perfect piece of nautical doggerel, to stimulate and encourage our long-suppressed literary endeavours. In other words, write something, ye scurvy knaves!!!!! If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.

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