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[isla]

Sad news indeed - RIP Fitz.

[isla]

Yes, I've got the Bilge on my browser's bookmarks toolbar. As you say - just one click ...

[isla]

You mean he finally learned to speak/write English? ...

[isla]

^ Hi Spinner! I thought you posted a while ago that you were thinking of buying a trail-cam. It would be great to get more photos of your nuisance bear...

[isla]

Very cool, and hopefully they turn out to be reliable. The regular ferries today are pretty awful and often out of service.

[isla]

Very cool.
Here's the other thread - https://forum.woodenboat.com/forum/the-bilge/244683-

[isla]

Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day.

[isla]

Happy Birthday! Have a great day.

[isla]

My old man's a dustman
He wears a dustman's hat
He wears cor blimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat..

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[isla]

Re: #15
Almost as whacky

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[isla]

Robbie Robertson did..

Now me and my mate were back at the shack
We had Spike Jones on the box
She said, "I can't take the...

[isla]

Also known as doggerel ...

[isla]

Also, Mr Potatotown should watch out for those darned marines - marching cadences, call and response, a lot of it is just rhyming couplets

[isla]

Hah! Next thing you know they'll be singing seas shanties - I don't know what the world is coming to ...

[isla]

Wales has a similar "bad poet", John Evans of Menai Bridge, known as the "Cockle Bard".

The Brittania bridge across the...

[isla]

Thank you kind sir - I learned everything I know about poetry from William McGonagall ...

[isla]

Cute

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Re now deleted post..

Farewell and adieu you shameless wee spammer
Farewell and adieu you seller of tat
I pushed the button,...

[isla]

Nothing fancy. I have owned a 17ft Norwegian built lapstrake rowing/outboard skiff (POF). I have built a 13'6" clinker ply rowing skiff based on...

[isla]

I didn't think I was going to like that, but hey ...