I always liked Gary Cooper's Beau Geste.
I've sailed the Norfolk sound in fog and those carriers gave me the
heebie-jeebies. Big bastards the lot of them. Not too careful where
they plough either.
Maybe you could go down with Patrick and VB (which I tend to translate
as Visual Basic, no insult intended, although it should be called Vile
Basic) as a Rhinemaiden...do you have golden locks? pigtails? A large
shield? Big lungs?
Roger
On 9/29/05, judy prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> My dearest sweet P Viking P---and of course B caulking B (would that be VB
> or someone you've not told us about?):
>
> How O how did you know that my hometown of Norfolk VA US of A sports
> artistically decorous mermaid sculptures at Important Crossroads throughout
> the fair city. Hence and evermore, I am Way Aware of how to dress m'sel' as
> a mermaid-in-waiting at Viking (and caulking as well) sailings.
>
> Thus, please know that if your last snapshot is of me in my mermaid attire,
> then it will be a most worthy, memorable memorial. Will we pose together
> for the snapshot, then? You can be inscribing your loving words with a
> stylus upon clay, and I will be . . . . . well, let's save that surprise for
> much later, shall we?
>
> Further, we have ships in Norfolk (the largest military naval base in the
> world) that rival small cities. One cannot look upon one of these carriers
> without feeling that it has emerged all of a moment from one's otherworldly
> dreams. Its immensity, in short, would rival yours (in talent and loving
> compassion, of course). I will put in a good word with the Admiral of the
> fleet, if you just say the word, O Maximum P.
>
> Omni-not-so-Po,
>
> Judy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:43 PM
> Subject: Re: A viking funeral
>
>
> > Look you clinker man--I and Boris are not going in our last great trip
> > going
> > to sail in a Viking boat across a desert the shipping lanes will have to
> > take their chances or we might take an oil tanker two with us -it is our
> > funeral after all!
> > Omnimermaid might wave us off for a bit??
> > Would be my last snapshot though:-(
> > P Viking P
> > B caulking B
> >
>
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