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Old 05-06-2007, 05:05 PM
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Naw wouldn't want 'ee for a ginger beer you'd have difficulty getting the bugger started! Besides which Oil and Water don't mix (very well, even in the bar at times)
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well i know you are not, but have me doubts abt ole walrus
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well i know you are not, but have me doubts abt ole walrus
I think we all have our doubts about walrus, my friend.
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even Walrus has his doubts about walrus - especially when people call him a 'ginger beer' (rhyming slang for engineer - last week I couldn't spell engineer this week I is one!)

and now I'm getting into trouble with John Luke (the six year old) as well!
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The joke about I cant spell engineer but this week I is one---- is getting a bit old dont you think.
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... (and just to confuse the issue thre be 56 lb of butter in a firkin,and [if I remember rightly] 2 gallons of potatoes is about a stone!
And of course six stone of cod to a 'box'...But only five pound of Norwegian prawn to a tray..
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Err, how about some photos showing different conditions? Example -

http://www.geology.wmich.edu/Kominz/windwater.html

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Hey Kelly, we all hate getting back to the subject, but I do like that link. Nice to see it graphically illustrated instead of the well worn written descriptions. A picture paints a thousand words…
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Yup. I just wish those shots included a 40 - 50 foot yacht for scale ....
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Consider that a force six (6) can in sme places be considered a "yachtsmans gale"
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I has been my experience that there are only 4 wind speeds

No wind,
Too little wind
Too much wind
Waaaaay too much wind!
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Err, how about some photos showing different conditions? Example -

http://www.geology.wmich.edu/Kominz/windwater.html

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A little tough to search out. I'm surprised there aren't more web pages along those lines ...

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A little tough to search out.

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Which may show why there's not more like it!!!
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