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Verry, verry good !!!  Hah! This navy lore.....After all I think it is called so for whoever had been misbehaving in the Captain's eye had to be "The Crow" for the day and sit up there on the lookout for anything, pirates, hostile fleets, hurricanes coming up. So they would ask "who's going to be the crow today?"
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Also, keeping birds is not a particularly clean occupation. Putting a source of fresh guano at the tip-top of the ship seems unwise.
but it would explain why they call it the poop deck. and why they have to keep swabbing it.
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Interesting, for those who may be (interested, that is) in the
Judeo-Christian Bible/Torah in Deuteronomy chapter 22 is teaching about good will, ecology, reasonable consideraton and integrity. In verse 8 it says;" When you build a new house, put a parapet around the roof; otherwise, if someone falls off, you will bring bloodguilt upon your house". Put a railing around your widow's walk???
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When you build a new house, put a parapet around the roof; otherwise, if someone falls off, you will bring bloodguilt upon your house.
When I was in India last, my hosts and I spent a lot of time up on the roof of the apartment building I was staying in, especially in the evenings. My host also spent time pouring buckets of water around to cool down the cement. Sometimes we'd sleep up there at night. It seems common enough in hot climates. Also, I am reminded of the houses in the ancient city of Çatalhöyük, which is almost 10,000 years old, the houses did not have doors but an opening in the roof and ladders were used to gain access to the roof which could be drawn up afterwards. (I think a similar situation obtains in Taos Pueblo.)
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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And in the New Testament of the Christian Bible, the Christ is inside a house, when the people outside lower a man through the roof to have the Christ heal him. Undoubtedly the same concept: a door or opening in the roof for access up for sleeping purposes and the like.
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Note to zmjezhd:
Interesting in India. I am having a somewhat difficult time navigating around this site. Can you help? With a thousand posts you must have it all down. How can I add a picture or avatar? Other questions persist, but I will plug along on my own for a while and attempt to get it right. I am 60 years, and new to the computer world much less the Internet. Thanks.
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How can I add a picture or avatar?
At the top of this page, click My Stuff and you will see a choice My Profile. Choose it. Scroll down the page, there is a function that lets you upload and image for your avatar.
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re: My host also spent time pouring buckets of water around to cool down the cement.
back in the 1960's, we lived on the fifth floor (top)of an apartment building (in the bronx)
every evening, on hot days, my dad would go to roof, and lower a hose that my 'grabbed' with a bent coat hanger.
she'd attach to the kitchen sink faucet (we had a quick connect fitting)--and he would hose down the hot asphalt, with cold tap water. (and it would cool via evaperation.. and in time cool the apartment too--we had no A/C back then, just fans, and it made a big difference.
(we also 'washed" (off the sand) after a trip to the beach on the roof.. the parapet offered some privacy, (and most of the building were the same height) we'd rinse off, remove our suits, and walk down to the apartment wrapped in a towel)
(now days access to the roof is not permitted.. (it was beginning to happen in the early 1970's
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note to zmjezhd:
Thanks so much for the help. Another question, the last for now. Is there a proper place to write you a note such as this without putting it out there on the forum???
Thanks again, I am much appreciative.
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