When I was in the 9th grade, I wrote an essay in which I intended to use the word “wince.” However, I mistakenly employed the word “wench.” I can still see the bemused smile on the face of my teacher, Mrs. Singleton, when she gently corrected me. And this concludes the boat-dream sequence. I hope you have an enjoyable weekend.
42 responses to “Dream Boat III”
Jimmy, are you a fan of “Yacht Rock?” It’s a musical genre set (but not rigidly) in the late 70s-early 80s, featuring mellow soft rock- the kind of stuff you could see yourself listening to while on a boat. Christopher Cross, Steely Dan, and Michael McDonald fit the bill well.
Friday the 13th with a Full Moon. Have a great weekend everyone!
In about third grade, during our weekly music lesson where we’d sing songs written out on big flip charts, we were singing the Navy song “Anchors Aweigh” (we sang all the service hymns, interestingly). I was over-proud of my vocabulary and read “viscous” for “vicious”, belting out loudly “We’ll never change our course, So viscous foe steer shy-y-y-y!” As I recall, the teacher actually stopped the song to crack up.
Jimmy, great sequence to start a weekend. I laugh every time I see wench where it should read winch, especially in car ads where you get a power wench or a 1-ton wench.
Like this from Craigslist: 2007 Polaris Sportsman 500 with power wench – good condition. Last serviced on 9/7/19
Which, of course, reminds me of an old joke, Mark.
A flight attendant, on her first flight with a good-looking First Officer, was quite smitten with him. When she got on the elevator to go down to the lobby in the hotel where the crew was resting overnight, she found the FO there also. Taking advantage of the fact that the two of them were alone, she stood very close to him, smiled, and asked, ”How long has it been since you made love to a beautiful woman?”
“Twenty-oh-five,” he replied.
“Oh my goodness!” she exclaimed, taken aback. “That long ago?”
“Well,” he said, glancing at his watch, “it’s only twenty-one-hundred-hours now.”
How about the 100 year old man who is given a suite at a posh hotel. There is a knock on the door and a beautiful young woman greets him with “Hi. I’m here to give you super sex.” The man looks at the woman and says “I’ll take the soup!”
All you triskaidekaphobes and selenophobes be cool out there today and don’t freak out.
Mr. Ed’s, a gas sta. + café in Motley, MN, used to have hot gizzards on its salad bar. Mr. Ed sold it & retired, it became some other café for a few yr., is now defunct. Thanks for adding the és. Peace,
Thanks to criticisms of Apple’s new iPhone, I’ve learned another word: Trypophobia
Re 9-13-19 real-time cartoon: To paraphrase Homer Simpson…”Mmmmm. Imitation Grilled Salmon and Ersatz Filet Mignon ‘Surf & Turf’ Flavor™.”
From the Department of At Least Slightly Strange, body of Florida Man missing since 1997 found in pond…on Google Earth photo. Does this mean an end to all the crazy “Florida Man” headlines? No.
https://gizmodo.com/body-of-man-who-went-missing-in-1997-discovered-in-pond-1838090294
If a winch be self-tailing, for what would she need me?
The standard joke in sailing is “the wench on the winch” often illustrated with the wench in a bikini with no rear fabric or less bending over a shiny winch..
Bikini never has top, potential for injury there due to large surface contact burns.
This is a new, often live, webcam. Suspect it’s somewhere in the range of lowland gorillas, but explore.org doesn’t tell is its location. you’re welcome.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/gorilla-forest-corridor
Peace,
It’s this organization: https://gracegorillas.org/2016/06/28/welcome-grace-lulingu/ You’re welcome. Have a pleasant weekend.
When a reptile has nothing to do, it doesn’t do anything. Kenya.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-river-wildlife-camera
Peace,
Not being a sailor, serious question: Does a self-tailing winch still have to be cranked?
Re 9-14-19 real-time cartoon: Well, better to talk to the TV screen, I suppose, than to “Elvis” it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTn2kSKA0b8
Must admit, before I stopped watching cable “new” stations, I would often think about that scene.
Ghost: Yes. Self-tailing refers to how the line goes onto the winch.
This week marked the passing of the last of Jackie’s “big dog” rescues, (NOT Dickens, I hasten to add) of which the total count was 10 at one time. This one was raised from pup (we believe she was about 15 years old) and was a beautiful dog with a great personality. The loss of a pet is always a hard thing.
RIP, Voodoo. You were a good girl.
Yes she was.
I miss them all. I had far more than 10 dogs in years I lived in Oklahoma but had ten “house dogs” at one time ranging from 130# to 40#, they had distinctive personalities and were wonderful characters, jockeying for a place in my office, bed and my hesrt.
Reminds one of Carlin.
https://www.gocomics.com/shoe/2019/09/15
Peace,
2 magpies on an osprey nest in MT.
https://explore.org/livecams/birds/charlo-montana-osprey-nest
Peace,
Good read, but only if you agree that science is the best way to study the pre-history of the universe. If not, don’t read this.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/details-discovered-about-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died/ar-AAH31aq?ocid=spartandhp
Gotta get ready to leave for church; I’m reader today. Peace, really.
By the way, we were discussing prescriptions here a few days ago. And something has come up that I want to mention with mine. After my annual lab tests by the VA my doctor placed me on a vitamin C supplement and one for iron. He added these to my VA supplied prescriptions and I didn’t think much about it till they arrived. Both were over the counter versions that I could have bought myself. When this month’s bill for them arrived I found I was being charged $24 for 200 of the Vitamin C tablets and $24 for 300 of the iron supplement. I have looked online and found I could buy a bottle of 250 of the same strength Vitamin C at Walmart for $5.94 plus tax, and I could get the iron from Amazon for about $15 plus tax. I wonder why the physician didn’t just give me directions what to buy and let me get my own? I would be saving over $30 that way, and I will go that route when these run out.
Mark
Prescriptions sometimes are covered by insurance & are deductible — OTC are not.
But go with the one that saves the most money – all things being equal.
Just finished “Spearhead” about The Third Armor – thanks to whomever recommended it.
A page turner. Also gruesome – It is no wonder why they are called the Greatest Generation.
A friend I am sure knew Bob Earley – though it is too late to ask either.
I’m in an income range that requires me to pay a copay for services from the VA. And I’ve noticed that over the counter items I could get cheaply for myself cost considerably more if the VA sends them to me. So I have requested some things be taken off my list with the VA so they don’t send me those things. And sometimes the quality isn’t what it should be, as happened when the local VA switched from a US name brand insulin needle to a foreign import. They might be saving money, but the needles weren’t nearly as sharp as they should be. I ended up buying my own from Amazon. I never paid attention to whether they were cheaper, but they are certainly much better.
Mark: Based on personal experience, I believe that most physicians, PA’s, and NP’s are sensitive to what their patients have to pay out of pocket…but some are not, for whatever reason. Never hurts to ask them about it when situations such as that arise.
My physician and PA are very responsive to what I need. But they don’t know what the VA is going to bill for pharmacy items. When the Dr. in Alabama put me on low dose aspirin it was the same way. When the VA sent it to me the copay was about 5 times higher than the over the counter price in Walmart. So I never ordered it from the VA after that first shipment.
Mustn’t mention Big Pharma’s role here: politics.