Wardroom privileges at last.
It would appear Gentlemen that I have been promoted to Midshipman which means I can now come into the Wardroom without carrying a mop and bucket.
You are all therefore cordially invited to join me for a noggin,or two, at your convenience. Should I not be in attendance I have left instructions, together with a few Guineas, with the stewards to serve you with free drinks until you either fall down or stagger off back to your cabins. Enjoy.
I most certainly will! Perhaps not that much, but I will drink to your new position. Cheers!
I'll hoist a cold one, but it's water--I'm trying to fight off the kind of dehydration that's usually a prelude to me getting a bug. :(
Congratulations, Reg.
Well done Sir! Your good service has been rewarded!
Congratulations on your promotion, Reg!
Congratulations on passing your Midshipman Examination Reg. I knew your Navigational abilities would come good in the end.
Now you will indeed be able to find the Wardroom.
If you will find your way back to the Midshipmens' berth after the evening ends is another thing entirely.
Cheers.
Bligh.
Well done, Sir
Congratulations!
"It's not the towering sails, but the unseen wind that moves a ship."
–English Proverb
Ahh, but I have a cunning plan! I have tied a piece of string to the end of my hammock.Originally Posted by Bligh
Now you will indeed be able to find the Wardroom.
If you will find your way back to the Midshipmens' berth after the evening ends is another thing entirely.
Cheers.
Bligh.
...hup...schhheers...midchips...hup. ssank u and congrachulasions...hep...Sssctill got the bucket, sir?
...put him in the brig until he's sober...
This post will have given your spellchecker a heart attack. Well done....hup...schhheers...midchips...hup. ssank u and congrachulasions...hep...Sssctill got the bucket, sir?
best english i ever wrote
Wish you good wind and a lot of good time, sir
...put him in the brig until he's sober...
We are awash with new Middies.However will we berth them all?
Cheers Morten.
Bligh.
Double bunk 'em Sirrah!
Double bunk 'em Sirrah!I've enough trouble with the Rum and Baccy as tis without adding to the trouble tween decks Lieutenant.
Bligh.
Pray tell me sir. To what exactly did you tie the other end?
Bligh.
I think he might have asked Morten to tie the string.
Congratulations!
Well I thought it was my hammock!Pray tell me sir. To what exactly did you tie the other end?
Bligh.
Come to think of it I'm not too sure what I did with my end. This port is very strong isn't it? Has someone been adding things to my glass?
Congrats Reg, well done that man
Just more Port Midshipman. Simply more and more Port.
Bligh.
Doesn't drinking lots of port increase your chances of suffering from gout?
HI Dave.
Good News.
Researchers have cheering news for grumpy old port drinkers. Beer drinkers are far more likely to develop gout than those who quaff wine.
But the age-old hypothesis linking men's alcohol consumption generally to the common form of arthritis appears to have been verified.
A study of the lifestyle habits of 47,000 US male medical staff, including dentists, osteopaths and vets, suggests two or more beers a day increases by two-and-a-half times the risk of developing gout by comparison with non-beer drinkers.
A couple of shots from a bottle of spirits daily increases the risk by 1.6 times, while two glasses of wine has no effect on the chances of big toes or joints being inflamed by the painful but treatable condition.
Researchers from Massachusetts general hospital and other parts of Harvard medical school in Boston followed the medical history of the men, aged 40 to 75, over 12 years. During that time, 730 developed gout and increased risk began at fairly low levels of alcohol consumption.
Gout often runs in families and is caused when urate, salt from uric acid, builds up and forms crystals in the joints.
But over-indulgence in alcohol has since Roman times been blamed for making attacks more likely. In later centuries, port was seen as a prime culprit.
Rob.
Port your helm, midshipman!
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