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11855. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/29/2004 5:57:51 AM HAHAHAHA! 11856. alistairconnor - 10/29/2004 10:47:00 AM Either way, I prefer chunky. 11857. Macnas - 10/29/2004 11:09:13 AM Just so long as it happens I reckon. 11858. PelleNilsson - 10/29/2004 12:19:34 PM Macnas
Before you left to do battle with your contractor you asked me to write something about Swedish sail, which I did. It is not much, but what there is is here. 11859. Macnas - 10/29/2004 12:37:51 PM Pelle
Thanks for that. It's almost as brief as the history of Irish sail, for some reason I thought the tradition of the longboat men would persevere in some form through the ages, but alas no.
Same with the horned helmets I suppose.
11860. alistairconnor - 10/29/2004 1:17:03 PM And what about Brendan and his curragh?
I suspect there was no specifically Irish sailing tradition for about a millenium after that. 11861. Macnas - 10/29/2004 1:37:04 PM You're forgetting about Grainne O'Mally. 11862. PelleNilsson - 10/29/2004 2:09:40 PM And Erskine Childers. 11863. Macnas - 10/29/2004 2:12:39 PM Not to mention Feilim. 11864. PelleNilsson - 10/29/2004 2:23:24 PM Would that be this fellow?
Feilim's boat went off to Gola,
Feilim's boat with Feilim in it,
Feilim's boat went off to Gola,
Feilim's boat with Feilim in it. 11865. Macnas - 10/29/2004 2:27:16 PM And there I thought I had you stumped.
The english translation should be Tory though, so I'll have to deduct a point I'm afraid. 11866. PelleNilsson - 10/29/2004 2:48:47 PM I googled. Here. 11867. Macnas - 10/29/2004 3:10:51 PM You know, I'd forgotten about the first verse.
It's not often sung here anymore, and if you heard it you'd know why. The last few verses usually suffice.
And even at that.... 11868. Magoseph - 10/29/2004 6:04:25 PM Hey, Mac, if you're still around, have a nice weekend. 11869. wonkers2 - 10/29/2004 11:26:10 PM Ah, Erskine Childers' "The Riddle of the Sands," one of the best sailing/spy/adventure/World War I(orII?) novels ever written. And some say it has a homosexual subtext. I didn't detect that when I read the book, but read it later, somewhere. 11870. Magoseph - 10/29/2004 11:44:03 PM Hey Wonk, I can read it here, maybe all of it 11871. judithathome - 10/30/2004 1:07:44 AM I posted in the Election thread that my state of mind is very fractured and the bad thing about that is this: I'm going to a family dinner tonight and they are majorly Republican. I think the only man who can calm me down right now is Captain Morgan!
I almost got my face painted today like a tiger...I wanted to shock my cousin in some way so that her birthday dinner would be memorable. I think I'm losing my mind. 11872. concerned - 10/30/2004 1:13:07 AM JAH -
Just ask them what that wire is that GWB was wearing at the debates. That should keep them guessing. 11873. arkymalarky - 10/30/2004 1:14:25 AM Hang in there, Judith. You'll regain it Wednesday. I've been having to really work on Bob to keep him from putting his "Vote the Son-of-a-Bush Out" on the pickup he drives to work. I've got him a nice Kerry/Edwards sticker, but he's not feeling real reasonable right now. 11874. concerned - 10/30/2004 1:18:41 AM Re. 11873 -
arky -
Why not just let him do it? His truck won't be offended by any dirty looks it gets.
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