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Friday the Thirteenth falls on a Saturday this month

By Bill on August 13, 2011 | | Comments (18)
And you all know what *that* means.

Oh, wait. You don't, and you're expecting me to tell you.

Fair enough -- it's Boquisucio's birthday!

Yes, Friends and Neighbors, Denizennes and Denizens, Commenters and Lurkers, today is the day that the Admiral of the Moat, the Master of Multilingual Malaprops, the Castle's contribution to Ibero-American amity, and Squid-In-Residence has successfully completed yet another circumsolar orbit!

And, since he already has a flagship (some assembly required, batteries not included, don't run with that bowsprit in your mouth), a copy of "Care and Feeding of Moat Monsters for Dummies," and enough mops to last until the economy actually *does* begin to recover, I was hard-pressed to think of a suitable present.

And then it struck me.

Dockyard accessories!

Now all we gotta find him is a dock...

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By John of Argghhh! on August 13, 2011 7:45 AM
Boq was a Squid?  I gave a Sailor the keys to the back office?  Damn, I gotta run better background checks.
 
By BillT on August 13, 2011 8:14 AM
He was a freshwater member of the species, so he actually has more in common with us DryLanders. It's not like he was going off to foreign lands and selling splodey trinkets to the inhabitants.

Oh. Wait.
 
By Quartermaster on August 13, 2011 10:37 AM
So, Sir John has given the keys to a Squid. Pardon me while my sense of Schaden and freude gets teh best of me. It probably wouldn't be politic to be ROFL on John's front porch.
 
By Fishmugger on August 13, 2011 10:49 AM
Ah...Happy Birthday BOQ...I don't know how to say that in spanglish.
 
By Boquisucio on August 13, 2011 2:56 PM
Thanks all for the kind wishes.  And QM don't despair.  I'm only a squid in the Castle's Moat. The HMS Sand Pebbles is all mine.   Though Massa John handed the keys to a spik who shares the same Natal Day with Fidel Castro....
 
By Grumpy on August 13, 2011 3:07 PM
 BOQ, you just keeping adding those birthdays. Before long, we'll start calling you an "Old Phart", a new landmark in your 'Navel Career'." The correct spelling for those things related to the Navy is "Naval". Happy Birthday, Old Timer.  
 
By John of Argghhh! on August 13, 2011 3:10 PM
Though Massa John handed the keys to a spik who shares the same Natal Day with Fidel Castro....

You are the Yang to Fidel's Ying, Boq.
   
By LAMIGRA on August 13, 2011 5:26 PM
Feliz cumpleanos, BOQ
 
By Maggie on August 13, 2011 5:41 PM
I knew he was Navy.........

Happy Birthday Boq!
 
By htom on August 13, 2011 5:58 PM
Happy birthday, Boq!
 
By Quartermaster on August 13, 2011 6:34 PM
 No despair whatsoever, Boq! Just reveling in Sir John's discomforture.

My "Sand Pebbles" was the "Neversail" at now closed NTC Orlando. The San Diego version is still there as I saw daily when driving past the old NTC there on the way downtown for the ACSM convention.

Whether Admiral of the Moat or of teh Ocean Seas, a squid is a squid is a squid. You're just a Brown Water Sailor in this case.
 
By Quartermaster on August 13, 2011 6:36 PM
 Oh, and Happy Birthday!
 
By Boquisucio on August 14, 2011 9:55 AM
Seshhhh - Thanks a bunches!
 
By BillT on August 14, 2011 10:47 AM
You're just a Brown Water Sailor in this case.

Given the state of the moat since the sewers backed up -- yeah.
 
By John of Argghhh! on August 14, 2011 10:57 AM
This is where the Armorer wanders in and sez, "We have septic, no sewers, and it's a very healthy septic system, thenkewverramuch!"

"It's those damn zombies that live under the drawbridge."
 
By Argent on August 14, 2011 5:59 PM
Happy Birthday BOQ. 
 
By Boquisucio on August 14, 2011 8:48 PM
Back to fishing for floating scuppers again, eh UnkaBill.