Sign of the times
I was in Brighton ( the posh Blackpool) over the weekend and I had a bit of a laugh at the sign I saw in a window. I swear it wasn't in my hotel but in the a local tea shop. Clearly it's a vintage sign put up for kitsch effect, but I suspect it might have caused a few wifies to choke on their morning scone.
I spent the weekend in 
More accurately - I look really old. I reckon I have got a Benjamin Button Ìýthing going on....which might be the only time in my life that I will compare myself to Brad Pitt!
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:It's from the Palace Hotel. Norfolk, Virginia.
Doesn't one of our bloggers live around there?
I think we should be telt!
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:What will they do with the drunken sailors?
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Please, gentlemen. No jokes about seamen. >8-D
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:How much for a Rear-Admiral?
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:I'd like to be keelhauled, s'il vous plait.
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:$100 ?!?
wanna buy a parrot?
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Why was the deaf Pirate Captain lonely?
He had no buccaneers >8-D
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Is that a mizzenmast, or are you just pleased to see me?
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Why are Pirates called Pirates?
They just arrrrrrrrrr!
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At 23rd Feb 2009, norriemaclean wrote:SG are you still coping well with nicotine withdrawal?
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Hear about the wee submariner?
He was periscopically challenged.
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:#10
So long as I stay off the rum I should be O.K.
arrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Senga!
The Fleet's In!!
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At 23rd Feb 2009, janfromrutherglen wrote:3# David?
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Norfolk, Virginia ?!?
I told the navigator to set course for Great Yarmouth !!
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:#14
I salute your navigability!
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Hear about the Captain of the submarine?
He went down with his ship.
(yes, I know it's a boat, but it ruins the joke).
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Jim Frae Erskine wrote:Jim, lad!
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Jim Frae Erskine wrote:5727 was a good year...
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Scotland gubbed the World Cup winners!!
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Does this mean we can no longer refer to our beloved presenter as a 'Marathon Man' ?
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Glen Miller wrote:I claim copyright on all of the above for my new book on Tourette's
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Glen Miller wrote:#15
Bernard Matthews turkeys - Norfolk and good.
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Izzat the time ?!?
Gotta go.
Navigator, plot a course for Giffnock!
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Glen Miller wrote:Sergeant, a road block on the Kilmarnock Road - and break out the tasers.
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Re: #22
I thought Little Jewford had written the book on Tourette's.
BTW, I dodged your blockade with ease.
(The navigator got lost again).
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Glen Miller wrote:Tuesday
Please play:
Something's Wrong With The Beaver - Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys
for Arthur in El Paso
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At 23rd Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:LOL
I salute your irrepressibility!
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At 24th Feb 2009, madmacfraeclydebank wrote:S.G.
I salute your disiciplinibility!
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead.
Yet beautiful and bright he stood,
As born to rule the storm;
A creature of heroic blood,
A proud, though child-like form.
The flames rolled on-he would not go
Without his Father's word;
That father, faint in death below,
His voice no longer heard.
He called aloud-'say, Father, say
If yet my task is done?
He knew not that the chieftain lay
Unconscious of his son.
'Speak, father!' once again he cried,
'If I may yet be gone!'
And but the booming shots replied,
And fast the flames rolled on.
Upon his brow he felt their breath,
And in his waving hair,
And looked from that lone post of death
In still yet brave despair.
And shouted but once more aloud,
'My father! must I stay?'
While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud,
The wreathing fires made way.
They wrapt the ship in splendour wild,
They caught the flag on high,
And streamed above the gallant child,
Like banners in the sky.
There came a burst of thunder sound-
The boy-oh! where was he?
Ask of the winds that far around
With fragments strewed the sea!
With mast, and helm, and pennon fair,
That well had borne their part-
But the noblest thing which perished there
Was that young faithful heart.
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At 24th Feb 2009, Glen Miller wrote:The boy stood on the burning deck - twit!
Spike Milligan
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At 24th Feb 2009, madmacfraeclydebank wrote:L.O.L.
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At 24th Feb 2009, Glen Miller wrote:Wearing Thin
'You'll soon grow out of it' she would say
When buying a blazer three sizes too big.
Ans she was right as mothers usually are.
Syrup of figs. Virol. Cod liver oil.
Within a year I did grow into it
By then, of course, it was threadbare.
Pulling in different directions
My clothes matched.
And in changing rooms nothing has changed.
I can buy what I like and when
New clothes that are a perfect fit.
Full length mirror, nervous grin,
It's me now that's threadbare, wearing thin.
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At 24th Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Re: #17, #29
The moral is, if you intend to go down with your ship, make sure you're on a submarine.
>8-D
Sea shanties, Nelson, Napoleon, this blog is a real education!
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At 26th Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Re: Jethro Tull
The song mentioning Preston platform is
'Cheap Day Return' from the album 'Aqualung'
Yes, you have played Tull before. Once. In exchange for cold, hard cash.
Cast your mind back to Children In Need...........
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At 26th Feb 2009, Scotch Get wrote:Wrong thread. That was careless. >8-D
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