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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 2 1 2 Rope Ladder #8904 10/24/00 01:01 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1 D dawa OP stranger OP dawa stranger D Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1 Does anyone know the name of those rope nets that hang over the sides of ships for troop debarkation? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Rope Ladder #8905 10/25/00 02:31 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 R RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah R Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 Hi, there dawa - welcome to the board. Sorry to be of no immediate help, because I've never had occasion to call them anything (thank goodness! they look uncomfortable and dangerous - I could just about accept them as a means of emergency embarkation but for getting off the ship? no thanks!!) Suggest you look for the Imperial War Museum's web-site - no idea of the address, but should be fairly easy to turn up. They are bound to know, and I will be surprised if they don't have an enquiry service. Good luck - don't get your feet wet! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Rope Ladder #8906 10/25/00 03:14 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 J jmh Pooh-Bah jmh Pooh-Bah J Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 I found a website which talked about cargo nets and climbing nets. I didn't see any military ones. I'm sure tEd will be able to help - he's our military expert, he's probably written a guide to using them somewhere. http://www.world-playground.com/PacificFibre/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Rope Ladder #8907 10/25/00 03:30 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 R RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah R Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 Jo - are you sure about that site? The logo looked as though they manufacture SM equipment! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Rope Ladder #8908 10/25/00 07:40 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Welcome, dawa! You must have joined AWAD during palindrome week. I haven't been able to find any special name. I think it really is just "the net", or something like that. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Rope Ladder #8909 10/25/00 07:48 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Welcome, dawa! You must have joined AWAD during palindrome week. You wouldn't by any chance mean "semordnilap week", would you? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Rope Ladder #8910 10/27/00 01:56 AM Joined: May 2000 Posts: 28 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia L Lucy newbie Lucy newbie L Joined: May 2000 Posts: 28 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia It isn't a scambling net is it? Or is that just used in the context of terrifying commando-type courses? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Rope Ladder #8911 10/27/00 02:43 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Lucy! Great to see you again! Yes, Max, you're right--mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Though neither awad nor dawa is a word! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Rope Ladder #8912 10/27/00 12:06 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 Lucy! Great to see you again! Seconded. But a phrase I seem to have come across once or twice is suspiciously close to You Can Up Look. (I blame the CIA.) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Rope Ladder #8913 10/27/00 12:11 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK shanks old hand shanks old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK Can You Look Up? (Existential?) Look Up. You Can! (Exhortative) Look You. Can up! (New way to politely ask somebody else to zip up his or her mouth?) You - Lookcan. Up. (The Lord to the vanished Lord?) Can Look Up You (Oh the perverted horror!) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 1 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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