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To keep ya occupied while we return...

By The Armorer on February 5, 2005 | | Comments (17) | TrackBacks (1)

All right, for those of you swimming in the moat (no peeing, it upsets Bill and the other Moat Monsters) just a reminder.

Keep an eye out for these:

I like useful militaria. This is a Confederate Navy 'torpedo' (that's what they called mines, back in the day). The one in this picture is located in the Civil War Navy Museum in Columbus, Georgia.

The moat is liberally seeded with them. No diving or boating.

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By cw4billt on February 5, 2005 9:33 PM
ALCON: He forgot to grease the horns (the doohickeys that make a sea-mine go boom) and the powder inside's soaked. Negative danger unless you bump your head on one doin' a half-gainer into the moat. On the other hand, somebody who got into the Drambui the other day mistook the moat for the garderobe and the water's now 65 degrees above ambient. I used a thermometer--why do you ask?
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on February 5, 2005 11:41 PM
Because last time, you used your finger, and didn't wash afterwards. Cheers JMH
 
By cw4billt on February 6, 2005 12:05 AM
JMH - Don't remind me. Just wish I hadn't picked my damn nose afterward...
 
By SangerM on February 6, 2005 12:11 AM
eeeeeeewwwww!!
 
By cw4billt on February 6, 2005 8:09 AM
JMH - HAH! Got one--counts as #2. Unmitigated expression of disgust... Still trolling for #1. "You guys are such pigs" and #3. "Any variation on the 'Pull my finger' routine" [Let's get with the program, kids, I've got a six-pack riding on this...]
 
By Neffi on February 6, 2005 9:30 AM
Dam' the torpedoes!! Full pee ahead!
 
By cw4billt on February 6, 2005 9:53 AM
JMH - Rats. We're tied.
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on February 6, 2005 2:37 PM
Just don't ask about hanging a rat! Cheers JMH
 
By cw4billt on February 6, 2005 8:22 PM
Nope. Only hanging I've been doing is an Erse escutcheon that one of the VC crew left as a doorstop. I think I got it back while she was busy screaming at the Eagles to go for the first down.
 
By Cricket on February 7, 2005 8:27 AM
Which thermometer did you use? Sounds like you HAVE been swimming in the moat. I guess we needs to fit Castle Argghh with a filtration system so that in times of seige we can fish and get potable water. Now about the middens...
 
By cw4billt on February 7, 2005 8:29 AM
I didn't touch your middens. You were wearing glubs when you came in.
 
By Cricket on February 7, 2005 9:33 AM
*I* don't swim in middens. I prefer cement ponds. However, I have been known to waterski...and my pilot friend threatened to buzz the lake whenever we went up there. Wonder why?
 
By cw4billt on February 7, 2005 1:04 PM
And a darned Good Thing you refrain from swimming in middens, too. You might tumble all the way to the bottom of the hill and bump your noggin.
 
By Sgt. B. on February 7, 2005 2:27 PM
Umm... About them mines... Seems a SEAL feller needed to get some dive qual time last week, an' he got a little bored... But they make GREAT kegs! Now, where's the Drambuie?
 
By cw4billt on February 7, 2005 3:21 PM
Sarge B - Damien stashed a couple in the oubliette.
 
By Cricket on February 8, 2005 2:40 PM
NOW he tells me about the middens *rubbing noggin*
 
By cw4billt on February 9, 2005 6:30 AM
Well, at least I didn't make any snarks about the "middenly virtues"...
 
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