Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Last entry read "rats in the hold.
My crew is dead - I fear the plague"

A deserted rat-infested derelict ship, bereft of engines and steering, is drifting slowly in the direction of the British Isles.
(h/t Boing Boing).

27 comments:

H. Rumbold, Master Barber said...

"The correct procedure after finding a vessel or boat without an apparent owner is to notify the Receiver of Wreck." (From Flotsam, Jetsam & Lagan: stuff for the Receiver of Wreck. Please include appropriate animated engravings.

Sirius Lunacy said...

No memory, tell me what's wrong with me
Why am I alone here with no rest
And now the name of the ship's not the same
How long has it been "Marie Celeste?"
Now there's nobody from the crew left
Five hundred years supply of rats just for me

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Personally, If there was a news item illustrating a BOC song EVERY Day, I believe I could be happy.

Sundays could be for 10cc songs.

Substance McGravitas said...

Canadian torpedoes are as slow as icebergs.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Hush, Substance. Don't try to pretend you guys have a NAVY.

Substance McGravitas said...

Sputter! We have to protect the Northwest Passage from Yankee imperialists!

Smut Clyde said...

I think you will find, sir, that all the Yankee imperialists are down in the Yucatan Peninsula, searching for obsidian mirrors in caves carved from solid jade within Mayan pyramids.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Ahem.

The Canadian Naval Air Force dropped aerial mines that got my shoes today.
~

Anonymous said...

sell it to glen beck

mikey said...

We REALLY should check to see if they left any good booze on the goddam thing...

wiley said...

Fire up the bassoons!

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

well, that's ALWAYS good advice.

Smut Clyde said...

sell it to glen beck

The ship, or ITTDGY's goose poop?

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I think Glenn Beck is already pretty full up on goose poop.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I am trying to find ways to loudly exclaim "Fire up the bassoons!" today. It's not as easy as you would think.

tigris said...

Are you kidding? When is it NOT applicable? And it's the ONLY way to announce you're going to the crapper.

Smut Clyde said...

"That's not poop... it's colloidal gold!"

Smut Clyde said...

Another useful all-purpose phrase:
"Then they put the electrodes on me".

tigris said...

"That's not poop... it's colloidal gold!"

Just how many carrots DID you eat?

Smut Clyde said...

Clearly tigris has never read the fable of the Goose who Crapped the Golden Poops.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

"That's not poop... it's colloidal gold!"

Does this have an application in "alternative medicine"?

fish said...

Does this have an application in "alternative medicine"?

Only when diluted in aquavit. Strangely, aquavit cannot retain any memory, nor can those who drink it.

Smut Clyde said...

Just how many carrots DID you eat?

ALL of them, Katie.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Maybe I should start taking pictures of goose poop.

Or a video, even.
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anne said...

smut (helllooo o ), in my quick looks over i've noted with the lovely sometimes moving cave drawings ,that you also seem .. fond of mazes,like the wall patt. here , did you note the comment that i left below kiwi i think, somewhere , about the man that i was married to in my twenties and our wanders through .. . ? / tig' , i like your braiins with kitty pawing as .. ,i think this each time i see it somewhere and sit lost in staring at something about for a moment ..here and there .. . /thoughts of if.. 's shoes , and slow .. . berg,icesex

Smut Clyde said...

I can't speak for Another Kiwi or tigris, but mazes and labyrinths are one of my many obsessions.

Smut Clyde said...

berg,icesex

Sex with icebergs is *not* one of my obsessions.