Lola at the Coffee House

You must be harder to bore than I am. But I'm older than you, ya ya ya ya.

bumpity bump

of the gab, perhaps?

If you're so bored why don't you cease coming into this splendid establishment? I think it's great and the brilliant conversation and repartee are almost as good as the chance it provides to take the piss out of certain parties of the masculine gender who shall remain nameless because I am that sort of discreet English gentleman who wishes them to remain so.

There are odd sentences which appear from nowhere. And even phrases such as "almost as much" which to a literary man is as revealing, from an economic point of view, as if a classy dame threw her skirt up over her shoulders and mooned it at me gratuitously. There's the debt mountain. One can never polish silver and glassware to a point at which it can't be polished further and thus provide an improved sparkling and glowing frame to appear in than was the case yesterday.

That quote from Jane Austen I offered for the consideration of my good friends was not in the least boring. It brought to my mind the tales an old acquaintance of mine told when on leave about American widows on the QE2 enjoying the money their husbands had left them. He was a junior officer on the boat.

Ladies are not as susceptible to saturated fats as men are. I think if men had themselves bled once a month it might even things up. And we know from Ms Austen that they were aware of it in the early 19th century. Stendhal's doctor knew the right diet for the joker's symptoms.

I assume that your contributions to this thread, all of which I have read, means that all the other alternatives to posting and reading here are more boring.

Nothing is boring my love. Nothing. If it's alive I mean. I cannot ever remember being bored after I figured out how interesting being bored is. It frees the mind which all the exciting things are there to chain up.

You're making me feel sea sick

I wanna go on that boat!!!!!!!!!

Circular cross section ???? Perhaps a bit more keel will help, but without a bouyant restoring moment in roll, even that's like a shock absorber without a spring.

Yeh, its not a deadrise, I was thinking of "skegs" and a bit more ballast. Im thinking of glassing it. reading about it, more, the original design of St Brendan's curragh was more like a round baking pan.

"Ben Gun's boat in Treasure Island" was a "wee currach". and his looked like a drawing of a half coconut shell

Ive only paddled it around and its almost like a damn river kayak. Im not takin this thing out to roll with the flow. I once built a deadrise kayak from a plan set in wooden boat. We used it for kindling. Fortunately I dont waste a lot of time in the skin because Ill set on a canvas lacquer skin just to try out the boat and then if its still ok, Ill do 'glas or heat set kevlar.

I've never been in a curragh, but have always wondered about their stability with the rather round cross sections. Without a bouyant restoring moment in roll there's not much you can do to make it seaworthy. Given the short lever arm, it will take a lot of ballast to do the job without it. Submarines on the surface are pigs in a rough sea.

I would guess George, and I can't do more, that an authentic currach would be seaworthy when launched into the teeth of a gale. I can't see how the design and construction, no doubt handed down from father to son, could have survived as long as it has. Or had I should say once floating suburbias became possible with stabilisers, air conditioning and nobody getting wet.

Dude currachs are obviously another matter entirely. They are not unlike those cathedrals that prisoners make out of matchsticks.

Fortunately dude lamb chops are the same as ordinary ones thanks to the sheep and few people having tasted Welsh lamb.

OUTRIGGERS, what do ya think? I was looking at the calculations of the Physics of Rolling the "Black Pearl" (Jack Sparrows boat), In "Pirates of the Caribbean"
The moment arm of my currach, if I did the math right, is just a bit better than aweighted log.
Id like to get it like a cat. So, a center rolly hull and two outriggers, I could just glas over the canvas rather than apply skegs and remold the whole thing.

Them Polynesians could make a bamboo rod plow the ocean like a schooner, as long as they had their outriggers.



Somehow a curragh with outriggers seems wrong.

All this boat talk is very interesting. But now it's my bed time. Good night all. See you tomorrow. Coffee time in the morning.

Spendius - are you obsessed with polishing silver? I may be imagining it, but your posts seem to refer to that subject rather a lot!



Perhaps Wassau has some silver tableware he needs attending to? Wassau, over here please, this gentleman needs something to keep him out of mischief.

I don't think being a pig matters so much--brigs were always described as pigs because they wallowed. But they were good "sea boats." What FM is describing is an essentially untrustworthy craft which would probably be prone to capsizing in heavy seas.

I think this sumbitch will capsize in a puddle.

Still, its a new day and I desire a cup of hot azetca chocolate.
Looks like were in for a few days of actual nice weather and WARM.

I'm feeling feisty today. I will have my coffee in a tea cup and my egg sammich with several strips of bacon. No mayo, please. I'm watching my tummy. (So are several other persons I know).

watch my tummy too. Thats why Ive built it out so I can see it clearly

Yeah--I did notice in that photo ci. put up that you looked a bit flabby fm but I'm far too well-mannered to draw attention to such a tell-tale sign of human weakness. Now you have done yourself I presume we are free to mention your belly from time to time.

Whenever I see anyone fat I always think that they must be unable to control their carnal appetites in the guzzling department. At 6 feet I am a lithe 11 stone 2. (156 lbs).

I do think that "belly" is a much better word than "tummy". "Tummy" is a Mumsie jocularity designed to downplay the grossness of the enterprise.

Have you tried corsets?

"Lithe"? That's skinny.

Tico


I agree with Tico. It sounds like we need to fatten you up. Here, spendi, have a big bowl of vanilla ice cream with your coffee this morning. I'll have a little too. I'll diet again tomorrow.

Very nice tummy, fm.