YSaC, Vol. 1344: Can you hear the people thing?
2012 September 20
TRASH AND TREASURE Sail
FRIDAY ONLY —1204 ‘O’ AVE—IN THE BACK YARD!!!
THINGS AND STUFF AND SOME OTHER STUFF TOO. SCOOTER AND MOTORCYCLE IN SAIL, SOME FURNITURE. GARDEN STUFF.
WOMENS CLOTHING PLUS SIZES. OTHER STUFF THE KIDS ARE BRINGING (?)
9-3PM
Oh my goodness, I’ve been looking for stuff for so long! And they have stuff AND other stuff! Oh, bestill my garage sailing heart, they have STUFF! AND THINGS!
But, do they have …
THINGS?????????? – $30
FOR SCUBA DIVING I THINK?
numberXX XXX XXXnumber
They have THINGS?????????? I think I’m going to pass out from ennui.
Thanks, One Moving Violation and Terrance!
Well, it’s not far to ‘O’ Avenue; at least it’s not for me.
And if it’s Friday morn, you can sail away and find tranquility.
Oh, garage sails can do miracles; just you wait and see.
Believe me.
Sailing takes me away to where I can find things, stuff, and stuff.
And the kids may be bringing other stuff,
But if not, that’s just tough.
“Come Sail Away”? Egads, ancient Styx. Back from the days when i was young and foolish and had an 8-track player (so the canoodling need not stop to rewind or flip the media).
I’ve been ruined by the Eric Cartman version of that song.
“Eeeh’m seeeling aweeeeeeh….”
The exam for the maritime Master’s certification used to require the ability to list all the sails of a fully-rigged ship.
Flying Jib, Outer Jib, Inner Jib, Fore stay sail; course, topsail, top-gallant, royal, sky sail, moon sail; Spencer; Cross-jack; Spanker, and the stay sails.
Never heard of a Treasure Sail.
Which ones are required for a full rigged motorcycle, and would a sail motorcycle qualify for “Clean Special Fuel” registration?
Yar, we sail at three bells! Hoist the Harley Davidson and prepare the galley!
…oh wait, that was yesterday.
[nautical time-keeping corey]
The number of bells is not enough information, you need to know the bells in which watch.
The best, most accurate mass-produced, hour-glasses of old, measured a half hour. Accuracy a serious issue for a glass on a moving vessel, too.
Once the calculus for longitude had been “discovered” it was hugely important to track the time to the second (or briefer). It was important enough, that some crusty old captain ordered the ship’s bell rung when the glass was turned, so that the turning not be missed.
Not merely to ring the bell, either, but, to keep track of the turns, too.
Maritime employment being a around-the-clock thing, and humans not having endless stamina, a system whereby people rotated into and out of being “on shift” fit into this time scheme. Which also dovetailed into another human-factors issue, even paired, it’s hard to track bell-ringing beyond four pair (consider how long it takes a clock to ‘strike’ an hour after 7 or 8 rings).
So, watches of four hours’ extent were (typically) formed.
First Watch was 00-04; Morning Watch 04-08; Forenoon 08-12; Afternoon 12-16. Then, a wrinkle, to feed all the hands, the next watch is split–16-18 is the 1st Dog Watch; 18-20 the 2nd Dog Watch; then the Night Watch 20-00.
So, anything up to 4 bells could occur in any of eight different time periods. From 5 to 8 bells in five (Dog Watches are only 2 hours, they end at 4 bells–unless a person needs to be rid of the gullible, and they get sent for relative bearing grease and to report at 5 bells the 2nd Dog Watch).
[/corey]
:giggles:
“Spanker.”
Etymology is from English in referring to a large, fast, horse as a spanker.
The similar sail set upon the main mast (and tucked in among a great deal of rigging and gear) is a “spencer” for being like the over-corset of the same name (and, in commercial, rather than Naval, use flown about the same time as the captain’s wife’s attire is hoist to catch more wind).
In Peter and the Starcatchers, a rather … creative retelling of Peter Pan, the Captain Hook character has a special sail that was made to resemble the corset of a rather bountiful lady that he flies when he needs more speed. The illustration in the book is priceless.
Things?
If only.
O, if only some smart person.
If only an intelligent, an erudite, a learned individual,
Had, perchance, labored away,
And crafted, scribed, penned, e’en Writ,
A tome, a tract, a simple Text,
That might suggest, recommend, make example.
Of words, thoughts, symbols, all arranged by,
Similarity, likeness, co-equality of sense.
Poor Roget,
Reduced to holding up sparkii recliners . . .
You know, things! Like that thing they use for that thing with that guy, and the other guy.
I don’t think they used the thing at the thing for those guys; it was at the other thing, the one for that guy. Y’know, the one where they did the stuff with the thing. It was fun, but now I can’t go back to Sea World.
I WONDERED what all the bicycles were doing in the fish tanks. I figured that was Gloria Steinem’s doing.
If anyone asks, I have no idea who shaved those walruses.
Shaved Walrus is IF’s Fishbone cover band. 8)
Did you forget we were supposed to meet that couple? You know the ones we met while night boating? They’re gonna be so pissed that you forgot that stuff and other things.
I know! We can tell them you have a medical condition and we had to get to a hospital.
You know, just until we can get the computer sticky thing back.
Stuff and things and other things?!
I was looking for junk and shit, dammit!
Sigh……
Umm, C”…”J? I have some junk.
Look out, C”-“J – I’ve heard stories about these foxes on the Intertubes that offer to show you their junk.
One of the local, smaller, school district’s PTA is rather exercised. Not only are they horrified (shocked, appalled, swoont) that CL’s m4w listings feature, ah, “non facial” photos, but, horror of horrors, the w4w section have similar photos attached (if more typically in Casual Encounters).
Been a hew and cry that Something!Must!Be!Done! Which teapot tempest has been collapsing due to insinuations of bias against the Sapphic.
Whilst sifting through my local listings looking for something YSaC-worthy, I came across something that would be sure to enrage that PTA – there is something called “Flash Friday” where women are encouraged to post topless pictures (and in the spirit of equality, men post bottomless photos) on Fridays.
Capn…did it ever occur to anyone to ask the obvious?
Just how do they know the m4w listings contain south-of-the-border pictures? Hmmmmmmm?
I learned a long time ago, not to ask such questions.
Then you go to a flea market on Saturday.
All the way in the back is the All the crappy shit you couldn’t sell at your yard sale section…
BTW- the ‘treasure sail’ is found on pirate ships, also referred to as the ‘booty sail’
A young lass was sailing her stuff.
In the back yard, that’s pretty tough.
She also sailed her things
And all of her clothing.
Now the poor girl is in the buff.
Hey Sparky! You ‘think’ those flippers are used for scuba diving? What other use were you considering for them?
Spankin’!
Immersive butter churn?
Automated feetparts for an automated wine-grape stomper?
Pfft. They’re handle-less fly swatters. Duh.
“THINGS?????????? – $30
——————————————————————————–
FOR SCUBA DIVING I THINK?
numberXX XXX XXXnumber”
They call them flippers,
flippers, they are for diving.
For only thirty,
will they fit me?
And you know that flippers
are made out of rubber.
What’s with that number?
Don’t you call me.
“FRIDAY ONLY”
Ok, I’ll send over my girl Friday. Will Tuesday be fine? I talked to Miss Weld and she said she could only make it on that day.
Thing thing new
Everybody knows one
Thing thing new
Every garden grows one….
Doodads and gizmos and bright shiny widgets
Objects and items and this crap, what is it?
Scooters for sailing and black rubber fins
This is some stuff that I think may be things
A popular lass known as C””J
Didn’t know what to do with her misjay.
It started off well
She had more stuff to sail
But she’s been stuck in the box for a day.
Punchity Punch Punch!
Good Morning, Writers on the Storm!