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Topic: Miscellaneous - Part Two
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)

Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 09-18-2003 06:23 AM
Rated PG Nan In Warwick
An Indian walks into a cafe with a shotgun in one hand and a bucket of buffalo manure in the other. He says to the waiter, "Me want coffee." The waiter says, "Sure chief, coming right up."
He gets the Indian a tall mug of coffee and the Indian drinks it down in one gulp, picks up the bucket, throws the manure into the air and blasts it with the shotgun, then walks out.
Four days later the Indian returns. He has his shotgun in one hand and another bucket of manure in the other. He walks up to the counter and says to the waiter, "Me want coffee."
The waiter says, "Whoa,Tonto, we're still cleaning up from the last time you were in here. What the heck was that all about anyway?" The Indian says,"Me in training for Rhode Island State job.Drink coffee,shoot the shit,and disappear for a few days."
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)

Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
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posted 09-19-2003 12:07 PM
Rated G SAILING TERMS:
Amidships - condition of being surrounded by boats.
Anchor - a device designed to bring up mud samples from the bottom at in opportune or unexpected times.
Anchor Light - a small light used to discharge the battery before daylight.
Bare Boat - Clothing Optional.
Beam Sea - A situation in which waves strike a boat from the side, causing it to roll unpleasantly.This is one of the four directions from which wave action tends to produce extreme physical discomfort.The other three are `bow sea' (waves striking from the front),`following sea' (waves striking from the rear),and `quarter sea' (waves striking from any other direction).
Berth - a little addition to the crew.
Boat ownership - Standing fully-clothed under a cold shower, tearing up 100-dollar bills
Boom - sometimes the result of a surprise jibe.
Boom - Called boom for the sound that's made when it hits crew in the head on its way across the boat.For slow crew,it's called `boom, boom.'
Bottom Paint - what you get when the cockpit seats are freshly painted.
Calm - Sea condition characterized by the simultaneous disappearance of the wind and the last cold beverage.
Chart - a type of map which tells you exactly where you are aground.
Clew - an indication from the skipper as to what he might do next.
Companionway - a double berth.
Course - The direction in which a skipper wishes to steer his boat and from which the wind is blowing.Also,the language that results by not being able to.
Cruising - Fixing your boat in exotic locations.
Crew - Heavy, stationary objects used on shipboard to hold down charts, anchor cushions in place and dampen sudden movements of the boom.
Current - Tidal flow that carries a boat away from its desire destination, or towards a hazard
Dead Reckoning - a course leading directly to a reef.
Deadrise - getting up to check the anchor at 0300.
Deviation - any departure from the Captain’s orders.
Dinghy - the sound of the ship’s bell.
Displacement - when you dock your boat and can’t find it later.
Estimated Position - a place you have marked on the chart where you are sure you are not.
First Mate - crew member necessary for skippers to practice shouting instructions to.
Flashlight - Tubular metal container used on shipboard for storing dead batteries prior to their disposal
Fluke - The portion of an anchor that digs securely into the bottom, holding the boat in place; also, any occasion when this occurs on the first try.
Foul Wind - breeze produced by flying turkey.
Freeboard - food and liquor supplied by the owner.
Gybe - A common way to get unruly guests off your boat.
Headway - what you are making if you can’t get the toilet to work.
Head up - Leaving the boat toilet seat up. When boat skipper is female, leaving the head up is a serious offense
Heave-Ho - what you do when you’ve eaten too much Ho.
Jack Lines - `Hey baby, want to go sailing?'
Jibe - either you like it or you don’t and it gets you.
Keel - term used by 1st mate after too much heel by skipper.
Ketch - A sailboat with good wine in the cabin
Landlubber - anyone on board who wishes he were not.
Latitude - the number of degrees off course allowed a guest.
Mast - religious ritual used before setting sail.
Mizzen - an object you can’t find.
Motor Sailer - A sailboat that alternates between sail/rigging problems and engine problems, and with some booze in the cabin.
Noserly - What to call the wind direction when it comes from where you're going
Ram - an intricate docking maneuver sometimes used by experienced skippers.
Rhumb Line - two or more crew members waiting for a drink.
Sailing - The fine art of getting wet and becoming ill, while going nowhere slowly at great expense.
Schooner - A sailboat with a fully stocked liquor cabinet in the cabin
Sheet - cool, damp, salty night covering.
Shroud - equipment used in connection with a wake.
Starboard - special board used by skippers for navigation (usually with "Port" on the opposite side.)
Swell - a wave that’s just great.
Square Rigger - a rigger over 30.
Sloop - A sailboat with beer and/or wine in the cabin.
Tack – A maneuver the skipper uses when telling the crew what they did wrong without getting them mad.
Yawl - A sailboat from Texas, with some good bourbon stored down yonder in the cabin
Zephyr - Warm, pleasant breeze. Named after the mythical Greek god of wishful thinking, false hopes, and unreliable forecasts.
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)

Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
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posted 09-23-2003 06:31 AM
Rated G KNJ
A museum in Tacoma, Wash., agreed to lend our museum in Kelowna, B.C., its 2,500-year-old mummy, Ankhwennefer, who is believed to have been a priest in ancient Egypt. When our conservator accompanied the sarcophagus across the border into Canada, the customs officer asked her what she was bringing back. After she told him, he asked, "Do you have a death certificate?"
From the Reader's Digest
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)

Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 09-23-2003 08:30 AM
Rated PG Harry in Reno
There was a beer party out in the woods and, all of a sudden there was a downpour of rain and thunder.Two young men ran for about 10 minutes in the pouring rain,and finally reached their car just as the rain let up.They jumped in the car, started it up and headed down the road, aughing and,of course,still drinking one beer after the other.
All of a sudden an old man's face appeared outside the passenger window, and he tapped lightly on the window! The man on the passenger side screamed out, "Ahhhhhhh! Look at my window!!! There's an old guy's face there!"
The old man kept knocking,so the driver said,"Well, open the window a little and ask him what he wants!" So,the passenger rolled his window down part way and,scared out of his wits, said,"What do you want?"
The old man softly replied,"Do you have any cigarettes?"
The passenger,terrified,looked at the driver and said, "He wants a cigarette."
"Well, give him a cigarette! HURRY!!" the driver replies.
So he fumbles around with the pack and hands the old man a cigarette and yells to the driver, "Step on it!!!", rolling up the window in terror.
Now going about 80 miles an hour, they calm down, and they start laughing again, and the passenger says,"What do you think of that?"
The driver replies, "I don't know. How could that be? I am going pretty fast."
Then all of a sudden AGAIN there is a knock, and there is the old man again.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaah, there he is again!" the passenger yells.
"Well,see what he wants now!" yells back the driver.
He rolls down the window a little ways and shakily says, "Yes?"
"Do you have a light?" the old man quietly asks.
The driver throws a lighter out the window at him and rolls up the window and yells, "STEP ON IT!"
They are now going about 100 miles an hour and still guzzling beer, trying to forget what they had just seen and heard, when all of a sudden again there is more knocking!
"OH MY GOD! HE'S BACK!"
The passenger rolls down the window and screams in stark fear, "WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
The old man replies, "You want some help getting out of the mud?"
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