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Berthier
02-06-2012, 02:15
One could hear the sound of muffled oars around here....



Oh that could be a topic...

Muffling an oar means wrapping something (usually cloth or animal skins) around the oar at the contact point with the oarlock in order to deaden the sounds of oar and oarlock scraping as you row.

The Royal Hajj
02-06-2012, 04:18
Very handy for cutting out... or when the bailiffs are after you for indebtedness!

Bligh
02-07-2012, 06:11
Well you live and learn.
I was told they were Pompey Doxies touting there wares on a cold night.
But then the same matey said the "Board of Trade" was a bench in Hyde Park.
Bligh.

David Manley
02-08-2012, 09:20
But then the same matey said the "Board of Trade" was a bench in Hyde Park.

Did he ever suggest getting out at Fratton? :D

Bligh
02-08-2012, 13:10
No not even for the football! let alone the muffled whores.
Gives a whole new perspective to the term fraternisation.
Bligh.

Berthier
02-08-2012, 17:34
And people wonder why "english" is taking over the world...

Blackrose
02-10-2012, 08:57
And people wonder why "english" is taking over the world...

Superior firepower backing up enforced trading privliges a century or two ago?

Karl

csadn
02-10-2012, 15:01
Superior firepower backing up enforced trading privliges a century or two ago?

Damned right.... >;)