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Oh thank you jo-- i half remembered where i had heard
And the landlubbers lying down below, below, below
And the landlubbers lying down below
but until you printed it out, i couldn't quite get it.
the clancy brothers among others have recorded it..but i am sure you would do a fine job--but I don't have speakers.-- what would be nice is, if not music, the ability to attach a file... (but that is could be dangerous..) then we could have a copy of the mp3 file.
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and is meant to be disparaging.So, even though I didn't have the right reasons, I was right that the word wasn't right for its context. Since the article was discussing the accomplisments of the organisms, you wouldn't want to insult them with a word with a somewhat negative connotation.  intuition at work here.
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Jo said, ?smugly:
Actually, I do smile sweetly on occasions when my cast iron stomach has left me the only one still happily sailing into the blue yonder while others have disappeared mysteriously - maybe not as far below as you suggest though!
Hmmm. Not big on sea shanties myself, but thanks for the exposition. I assumed that the quote was from a shanty. Why is it that all shanties from the east coast of the US are kinda grim?
I don't suffer at sea myself. My first job after leaving school was as a deckhand on a crayfishing boat based at a remote port on the west coast of NZ's South Island. There was only one set of circumstances which could make me feel ill - a combination of movement, me having my head down doing something and diesel fumes.
Sailing is fun - most Kiwis do it at some time or another. Probably makes up for being flightless birds with grubby brown feathers and long beaks ...
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