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>Captain cleared the harbor entrance with LITERALLY three inches to spare on each side. We got the story, and the pictures!
Reminds me of the story of Pancho Villa (for you people across various ponds, a Mexican revolutionary who had the temerity to invade the US back in hmmm 1913???). Anyway! His naval adviser told him that if he scuttled garbage scows in the mouth of the Rio Grande he could prevent US gunboats from getting up the river to shell his hideouts along the south side of the river. His fatal response: "Barges? Barges? We don't need no sinking barges!"
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Welcome, Sparteye, good to have you. You certainly picked an apropos thread to come in on, with all the ref.'s to ancient Greece, etc. Didja notice we have Helen (of troy)
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Wow, that was one great story! I guess things like that make it worth all the hassles of being a reporter.
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Thank you, Jackie.
... and about horses, too. Don't look a gift Trojan horse in the mouth; you might get poked in the eye with a spear. I guess that's why it's the nether end serving as the thread title.
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Wow talked about being worried that the gov'mint might try to find out how she found out how they were bringing the reactor containment vessel to the power station site. The fact that she had reason to be worried would worry me! 
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The concern, Dear Cap, was possibility of terrorism, damage to the containment vessell in the marsh and/or harm to demonstrators themselves. It was still Cold War time, remember?
You are the smartest folk...down there in New Zealand... banning the whole megillah.
Aloha
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P.S. I wasn't really worried. Amused, Tickled at tweaking the giant's tail, yes. But not worried. Kinda hoped someone would question me...would have made a great follow-up story ... with pix, natch!  Wow
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Wow - the machinations the US government will go to to curtail freedom in the "land of the free" never cease to amaze me! Given the time and place, I'm surprised they didn't try to link you to a KGB spy ring.   BTW no one has commented on "pallii". [sobbing emoticon]
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CapK lamented BTW no one has commented on "pallii". [sobbing emoticon]
In an act of positively Schweizerian altruism, I shall now expose my ignorance before all, and post the first thought that went through my mind on reading that phrase: "What the hell is palii?" I hope you appreciate my surrendering the last tattered remnants of any illusion of intelligence I had managed to maintain.
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Oh, all right then, since everybody's obviously sent private messages to Max asking him to voluntarily act as the patsy on this one.  Pallii the genitive form of "pallium", which my 30-year-old memory of Latin vocabulary dredged up as being a fair equivalent of "coat". So it was supposed to read "Who watches the coat watchers?", an intended play on (a) the original Latin quotation (was it Virgil?) and (b) the mistake someone made in the thread title which had the "s" missing out of "Coast". Damn!
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CapK impugned me with Oh, all right then, since everybody's obviously sent private messages to Max asking him to voluntarily act as the patsy on this one. I deeply resemble that!!  No one asked me. I did that out of the goodness of my own passive-aggressive psyche, thank you very much. Next thing I know, you'll be pushing my buttons by suggesting that ll altruism is fundamentally selfish. 
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