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jacobsen
seeker
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What has the mainmast to do with this?
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The man who made time, made plenty.
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no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
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The mainmast is required to support the mainsail, the topsail above, the top gallant, the royal sail, the skyscraper sail, and above that the moonraker. It is also useful for hanging traitors - from the yardarm which are horizontal spars.
I realize the Ship's tradition is to "plank" people, but this may actually be apocryphal, i.e., no one in real life actually walked a plank. Rather, they would be put on half rations, flogged (often after Church rigging was taken down on Sunday), and hanged from the yardarm.
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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
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RuthW
liberal "peace first" hankie squeezer
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Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
Rather, they would be put on half rations, flogged (often after Church rigging was taken down on Sunday), and hanged from the yardarm.
Way too much work. We'll stick with planking people.
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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Besides, Church rigging is a big can of worms. Far too much potential for people telling us how the rigging should be done. You can't even swing a thurible around here without starting an argument.
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RuthW
liberal "peace first" hankie squeezer
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Or setting the mainsail on fire.
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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I do like the option of flogging a miscreant around the fleet.
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lilBuddha
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by basso:
I do like the option of flogging a miscreant around the fleet.
Please keep your sexy time fantasies for the private boards.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
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May I offer a segment of Psalm 107 to the Ship of Fools I and to the Ship of Fools II, and all of you merchants of ideas and you drunkards, and those who pray, those who cry out, and those who don't pray, and everyone who flogs and those who want a flogging, those who've gone before, and those who may yet crew her: may This Ship be guided into a goodly haven...
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Some went out on the sea in ships;
they were merchants on the mighty waters.
They saw the works of the Lord,
his wonderful deeds in the deep.
For he spoke and stirred up a tempest
that lifted high the waves.
They mounted up to the heavens and went down to the depths;
in their peril their courage melted away.
They reeled and staggered like drunkards;
they were at their wits’ end.
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
and he brought them out of their distress.
He stilled the storm to a whisper;
the waves of the sea were hushed.
They were glad when it grew calm,
and he guided them to their desired haven.
Just saying. Psalm 107 here.
[ 25. November 2017, 03:08: Message edited by: no prophet's flag is set so... ]
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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Quoting Scripture? People may think we're a Christian Website!
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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I see we're just £250 short of the target now, looking good !
[ 25. November 2017, 14:44: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by basso:
I do like the option of flogging a miscreant around the fleet.
Or as my father occasionally said "Keelhaul the bastard!"
No repeat offenders there.
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Gill H
Shipmate
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Parrot duly fed. (As those who have seen the hilarious film 'The Pirates in An Adventure With Scientists' know, parrots are one of the best things about being a pirate. Along with ham night.)
Well done to the Captain and Crew for their herculaneum efforts.
As for making a fuss about member numbers ... some of us were here before the member numbers even started!
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- Lyda Rose
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lilBuddha
Shipmate
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
Punctuation makes all the difference.
Released for the foreign markets with the weaker title
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Gill H
Shipmate
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Thank you, Petitely Buddhist Pirate!
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- Lyda Rose
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Rossweisse
High Church Valkyrie
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I apologize if I missed this information: Will we be able to retain our old avatars? Mine was drawn for me by my Senior Child, and I am fond of it.
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RooK
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Originally posted by Rossweisse:
Will we be able to retain our old avatars? Mine was drawn for me by my Senior Child, and I am fond of it.
I think we're all quite fond of your avatar. You'll be able to have whatever you care to upload for your avatar image.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
Besides, Church rigging is a big can of worms. Far too much potential for people telling us how the rigging should be done.
Is that the same as election rigging?
£152.90 to go. One last push he hearties. We'll get this raised before December.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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It's an auspicious time for ships at the moment, even the Royal Navy has been spotted marching at Buckingham Palace. God bless the Ship of Fools and all who sail in her.
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Anselmina
Ship's barmaid
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quote:
Originally posted by BroJames:
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Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
<snip> Psalm 107 here.
There’s some brilliant word painting in Sumsion’s musical setting of that.
You see, right there is one of the reasons I stick with the Ship. Where else can you find a casual reference to a (fairly) obscure but to me much loved choral/organ composer, off the back of a scripture quote? One of my favourite psalm pieces of all time this, and what was going through my head while I was reading the psalm earlier on the thread - in the original language, of course!
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Bishops Finger
Shipmate
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O indeed - this verse always seems so appropriate:
Psalm 107 v27
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
IJ
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Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. (Wilkie Collins)
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Landlubber
Shipmate
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This has been my sig since I joined - I hope the new Ship will be sufficiently unrestful for me to keep it!
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They that go down to the sea in ships … reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man
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Rossweisse
High Church Valkyrie
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quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
I think we're all quite fond of your avatar. You'll be able to have whatever you care to upload for your avatar image.
Thank you, RooK - but I think the only copy of it now extant is on the Ship itself. (There was a wipeout a few years back.) Is there a way to transfer it or save it?
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RooK
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quote:
Originally posted by Rossweisse:
Is there a way to transfer it or save it?
Absolutely. Consider it handled.
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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I guess I should change to a photo of my new boots, they are only two years old.
Jengie
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Back to my blog
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Patdys
Iron Wannabe
RooK-Annoyer
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quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
quote:
Originally posted by Rossweisse:
Is there a way to transfer it or save it?
Absolutely. Consider it handled.
I'll deny this in public but you're a good man.
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Marathon run. Next Dream. Australian this time.
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Gill H
Shipmate
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To prevent an avalanche of similar requests, could this be something we can indicate at some point?
Babybear designed mine and I don’t think it exists elsewhere.
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- Lyda Rose
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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As a general service to all.
If you go to your profile and edit it, there will be a copy of your avatar visible. You can copy that onto your own computer. Make a note of where it is, and then when you sign up for the new boards you can upload it to your new profile then.
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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Alternatively, just right click on the image in a post and you can save it to your computer.
Jengie
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Back to my blog
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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quote:
Originally posted by Landlubber:
This has been my sig since I joined - I hope the new Ship will be sufficiently unrestful for me to keep it!
Assuming we even have signatures on the new Ship. There's a strong chance that they will go the same way as member numbers, because none of the sig options we've seen so far are fit for purpose.
You can always keep it in the "about me" section of your new profile if you want.
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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Originally posted by Jengie jon:
Alternatively, just right click on the image in a post and you can save it to your computer.
Jengie
I wasn't sure if the displayed avatar was a lower resolution version of what's in the profile - in my case, they're both the same. But I wasn't going to assume that.
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Brenda Clough
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No no. I believe. I clap my hands three times, expressing my =faith= there there will be avatars and sigs and all the good old stuff. I'm a believer! Off to contribute, because it's Charitable Tuesday.
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
# 1984
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Also, I am still open to making custom avatars if folk want them - no charge. (If H&A could let me know any parameters for that it would help, used to be 50x50.)
[ 28. November 2017, 17:41: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Jengie jon:
I guess I should change to a photo of my new boots, they are only two years old.
Jengie
Good ole Shipmate Chelley, who hasn't posted for a few months, has already got some Doc Martens as her avatar. Just sayin'.
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Rossweisse
High Church Valkyrie
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quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
Absolutely. Consider it handled.
Thank you, RooK. (To demonstrate my appreciation, I will refrain from using smileys to express my happiness at this.)
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RooK
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quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink.:
If H&A could let me know any parameters for that it would help, used to be 50x50.
The new system will display avatar images at 48x48 pixel resolution - same as today. You can load in a larger image, but it will be scaled to display at the standard size. Scaling algorithms can be unkind to some images, so to have completely consistent results it works best to have a native 48x48 image. I personally used a 3200x2400 image, because I'm a jackass resource hog and because it secretly includes a map to where I've hidden the bodies. Or, rather, it did - until the system resized the file to 250x250 for storage. So good luck finding your friends, surviving illuminati.
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roybart
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Coming late to this thread but I have just paid my fare for the new voyage. If it were up to me, I would probably still be typing this on an IBM Selectric with a carbon copy for my files. But I trust that you all know best! Thanks to Simon, the back office, the Admins., and Hosts for all you do.
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RooK
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BOOM:
£4014.60
You magnificent piratical bastards.
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mousethief
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quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
BOOM:
£4014.60
You magnificent piratical bastards.
You say the sweetest things.
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Schroedinger's cat
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Originally posted by RooK:
I personally used a 3200x2400 image, because I'm a jackass resource hog and because it secretly includes a map to where I've hidden the bodies. Or, rather, it did - until the system resized the file to 250x250 for storage. So good luck finding your friends, surviving illuminati.
Personally, I am guessing Canada. We will just have to dig up all of it.
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Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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Simon
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Now that we've broken through our revised £4,000 target (currently we're at an amazing £4074.60), this is just to say a very big thank you to everyone who's given so generously to the fund for the new Ship. It's hugely – astronomically! – encouraging that together we've raised such a big amount in just 12 days, and it gives us everything we need to complete work on the site. So grateful thanks to everyone for lending a hand to the Ship.
I've just a few mins ago received the final designs for how the new site will look, which means we're now seriously into our build phase of the work. I'll post more news about how that's developing when there are things to share. But for now, everything's looking very promising.
Thanks again!
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Sipech
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Fabulous stuff!
Is it generally expected that we register on the new ship with our existing names, or are we free to use others and maybe add our old one to the signature, as with previous spates of name changes that have occasionally been permitted?
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by Sipech:
Fabulous stuff!
Is it generally expected that we register on the new ship with our existing names, or are we free to use others and maybe add our old one to the signature, as with previous spates of name changes that have occasionally been permitted?
Asked and answered. So, yes you can change, but please don't. Or your option works for continuity as well.
My preference on the desirability of change, of course, see Rook's post for the official bit. I am not official, merely (barely) tolerated.
[ 29. November 2017, 17:56: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Bishops Finger
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I rather hope that most peeps will keep to their existing names, as my OCD gets upset over too many changes and chances in this fleeting world.. ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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Landlubber
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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
quote:
Originally posted by Landlubber:
This has been my sig since I joined - I hope the new Ship will be sufficiently unrestful for me to keep it!
Assuming we even have signatures on the new Ship. There's a strong chance that they will go the same way as member numbers, because none of the sig options we've seen so far are fit for purpose.
You can always keep it in the "about me" section of your new profile if you want.
Thank you - here's to a stable platform and an unrestful Ship.
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They that go down to the sea in ships … reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man
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Leaf
Shipmate
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Just scrambling back on board after some travel. Glad to hear of the refurbished Ship! Have donated.
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Celtic Knotweed
Shipmate
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Donation made ![[Smile]](smile.gif) Took me 2 goes though - the first time I tried paypal wanted me to create an account before taking my money ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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quote:
Originally posted by Landlubber:
here's to a stable platform and an unrestful Ship.
If we have an unstable platform expect the ship to be really unrestful.
I am expecting teething trouble, and am giving time for the waters to settle after the launch and asking all shipmates to make allowances.
I am also recklessly mixing metaphors.
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