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Posted by ShamrockPirate Posts 189 Registered at 2010-12-03 17:49:57	2012-03-31 22:25:38 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	La Vuelta The Vuelta in Spain is a race Who’s origins easy to trace With cervesas a’flowin’ (The winds not a’blowin’) It’s hard to keep up with this pace!
Posted by Smo Posts 80 Registered at 2009-05-02 21:49:04	2012-04-05 03:01:40 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	Rod #1 at International Yacht Paints Auckland Tauranga Yacht Race 2012 Make a speech? "Nevah---in the course---of human history--has so much----"
Posted by Rod Posts 392 Registered at 2010-06-24 22:30:48	2012-05-06 01:05:12 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	Ladies and Gentlemen, The overall tone of the SOL conversations is becoming much too serious and earnest and pedantic----DTFs, DTMs, Change of name, groundings and BBQ recipes, Promises of mermaids (dugongs), polars and scudding sails----well, you get the idea!!!! But WHERE IS THE POETRY???? Where are the JOKES???? Quips? Bon Mots? Innuendoes??? I will say no more----the rest I will leave to you, my fellow SOLers. If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
Posted by ShamrockPirate Posts 189 Registered at 2010-12-03 17:49:57	2012-05-07 01:26:20 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	Limerick for the land of Haiku Off the land of the Rising Sun We all sail to be Number One But the sushi and sake Lets us get a wee cocky And onto a beach we have run! Thanks Rod! Thought you'd never ask SP
Posted by Rod Posts 392 Registered at 2010-06-24 22:30:48	2012-05-10 20:44:51 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	O, Civilli! Si ergo! Fortibus, es in ero. O, Nobili! Deus trux! Aulphyl dupuiss causan dux. Dredged from memories of long, long ago Latin class rooms.... Modified as memories slowly return---- The challenge is to translate the Latin into modern grammatical English--or any other language of your preference...... --- Last Edited by Rod at 2012-05-11 01:10:32 --- If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
Posted by Rod Posts 392 Registered at 2010-06-24 22:30:48	2012-05-16 02:21:36 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	Nobody wants to translate my Latin poetry? Even if it's not quite by Ovid??? If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
Posted by 76Trombones Posts 362 Registered at 2009-08-03 18:04:56	2012-05-27 00:23:28 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	On Azzam being legitimately first after more than half the leg... The peanut gall'ry thinks they are regal. Good thing armchair sailing's still legal. The boats are _all_ fast: Predict who'll not be last = Count the gybes that are shaped like a seagull. except for Sanya poor blokes
Posted by ShamrockPirate Posts 189 Registered at 2010-12-03 17:49:57	2012-05-31 00:41:02 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	Trombones...again!! From Miami to Lisbon we fly Skirting lows and avoiding the highs To see how it’s done… Trombones is the one. His route masterful, brilliant and sly! Very well done!! SP
Posted by Rod Posts 392 Registered at 2010-06-24 22:30:48	2012-05-31 04:08:04 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	Oh, see, Willie! See her go, Forty buses in a row. Oh, no, Billy! They is trucks, All filled up with cows and ducks. If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
Posted by Rod Posts 392 Registered at 2010-06-24 22:30:48	2012-07-03 17:28:37 - Re: Poetry Saved for Posterity
	While we are all concentrating on navigational mathematics, the "ARTS" should not be neglected! So:- A sailor who went to Galway, Decided to do it his way. He shut off his router, He felt that he oughta, But found that he'd gone all astray. If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.

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