A Call to ARMS!

Discussion in 'All Things Boats & Boating' started by timgoz, Jul 12, 2007.

  1. safewalrus
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    safewalrus Ancient Marriner

    Exactly - you always know who your mother is but your father?

    remember that scene from "Local Hero" (your modern 'Whisky Galore' where the hero looks at a young girl and remarks - nice kid, who's the father? and the camera flashes to a row of locals on the sea wall - the looks of bemusement on their faces is classic!) 'course you do Max compulsory viewing for any Scot! (or half Scot even)
     
  2. Bergalia
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    Bergalia Senior Member

    A call to arms

    Remember it ? Rus I was there when they 'shot' some scenes in the Plockton area. Pity it never got a 'wider' audience, but perhaps it was too much on an 'in-joke' script. But you remeber that the scene where the old beach-comber was bargaining with the oil executives - and said he would part with his plot for as many dollars as the grains of sand in his hand...and they refused thinking the price far too high ? It really happened some years earlier when a German real-estate firm wanted to buy and develop a similar area for a 'marina'.
    A crew from Aberdeen University spent a couple of days actually counting the grains of that particular beach that could be held in an average human hand. Result 5,760...(five thousand, seven hundred and sixty).
     
  3. Frosty

    Frosty Previous Member

    So--Walrus you say your not too sure who your Father is. So then we can assume therfore that you will be similarly unsure if they were married.

    Explains a lot wouldnt you say?
     

  4. Bergalia
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    Bergalia Senior Member

    A call to arms

    Blimey...there's a 'Sir Clip' writing under Frosty's name now....Where will it all end ? (And can we hope it will eventually end....) :(
     
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