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By: Meami

Meami — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:47:20 +0000

hmm, and these pirates aren’t evil i bet

By: Datherine

Datherine — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:45:47 +0000

Just do me a favor and keep writing such trenchant alnayess, OK?

By: TekServer

TekServer — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:51:09 +0000

Scrape ‘em off, Jim!

By: Desmond

Desmond — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:43:05 +0000

Sometimes, the gude olde Anglo-French (that’s what modern English really is) still shows it once was akin to Germanic languages.

However, I’d venture a guess that the verb’s root is even older than that. The Russian verb for “launder” has a very similar root, so it might as well be an Indo-European one. (Disclaimer: Not a Language Historian; Known to Be Wrong. Check it with a comparativist next time you run into one.)

By: jmkool

jmkool — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:05:53 +0000

Nah, Paddington would just cause a minor eclipse and be even MORE noticeable.

By: jmkool

jmkool — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:02:55 +0000

Make the joke better…

“…And he was constantly looking inside the box as if to reassure himself of something…”

By: jmkool

jmkool — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:58:39 +0000

Indeed, it was originally the ‘steer-board’ side. You kept it away from the dock. I don’t know where Larboard came from though.

By: PennyL

PennyL — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:21:12 +0000

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: narrowlander

narrowlander — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:57:16 +0000

Not true Tecroogue! Just because a vessel is moving backward the bow and stern do not change places. Port and starboard are relative to the “head”, or bow, of the vessel.
The middle of a ship’s side is often called it’s beam, a reference to the deck beams running athwartships, (hows that for a word!) Judging from the illustration, one might ask “Yar!, what be that on the starboard beam?

By: YawningMan

YawningMan — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:27:20 +0000

Personally, I’d go for something more like this:
“Look! What thar be yar on the starbard… Storboa… Sto-arrr… What be that over thar?”

I’m a little easier to please than most.