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I did not know that there were red octopi until I found this.
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How do you make a red Octopus turn purple?
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Rob.
Put it in the Deep Blue Sea?
Yours has an aggressive friend.
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Nothing to the steadfastness of a British Tar.
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Rob.
As a tribute to the faithful lighthouse keepers.
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In view of today's weather, this drink has an appropriate name.
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Very droll Dave.
Rob.:happy:
Right now I'd rather be enjoying a little.....
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Rob.
This commemorates the huge iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald which sank in Lake Superior during a terrible storm in 1975.
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This drink bears the name Alberta Clipper in homage to the winter storms that can paralyze the Great Lakes region.
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This jolly jack Tar represents myself finding the site back up.
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Rob.
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The brewery wrote that this is produced," To commemorate Charlie Buffum's historic find of the wreck of the USS Revenge off the coast of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. Last seen in 1811, the USS Revenge was Oliver Hazard Perry’s first Naval Command before his famous victory in the battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. This dark and stormy brew summons to mind the mystery of things long lost in the bottom of the ocean."
A new loose cannon.
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About this, the brewery writes,"Stonington Glory celebrates our town’s victory against the British in the 1814 Battle of Stonington, when we turned away a British fleet’s 160 guns with a mere two cannons."
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Wikipedia has," Stonington repulsed two British naval bombardments. One was a desultory bombardment during the American Revolution by Sir James Wallace in the frigate HMS Rose on August 30, 1775. The other was a more damaging three-day affair between August 9 and 12, 1814 during the War of 1812. British vessels HMS Ramillies, HMS Pactolus, HMS Dispatch, and HMS Terror under the command of Sir Thomas Hardy appeared offshore on August 9, 1814. The British demanded immediate surrender, but Stonington's citizens replied with a note that stated, "We shall defend the place to the last extremity; should it be destroyed, we shall perish in its ruins." For three days, the Royal Navy pounded the town, but the only fatality was that of an elderly woman who was mortally ill. The British sailed off on 12 August after suffering many dead and wounded.
American poet Philip Freneau wrote (in part):
The bombardiers with bomb and ball
Soon made a farmer's barrack fall,
And did a cow-house badly maul
That stood a mile from Stonington.
They kill'd a goose, they kill'd a hen
Three hogs they wounded in a pen—
They dashed away and pray what then?
This was not taking Stonington.
But some assert, on certain grounds,
(Beside the damage and the wounds),
It cost the king ten thousand pounds
To have a dash at Stonington."
It sounds like it was an embarrassing incident for the Royal Navy.
Looks as if we were well and truly.........
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Rob.
This lager was brewed in 2015 to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the U.S. Coastguard.
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Here is another pretty good sailing cove.
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Another drink from Safe Harbor Brewing:
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No blonde bombshell today I'm afraid. Just an.....
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No pun intended.... me hearties!
Another drink from Sackets Harbor brewing.
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This drink seems appropriate for this time of year.
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Crab flavoured stout?
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Another offering from Captain Jack.
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Not much chance of needing this with all the vegetables and fruit today!
Rob.
Another Captain Jack beer.
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More from Captain Jack.
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