A question for American castaways

[Tearin Tina]

Guest-Quentin said:

If she was the little green man, who was the phoney percy?

I'd assume some pulpy fictional character, Quentin, probably personifying the "seasick immortal" trying to get the attention of the island Nurse.

[Benbow]

I must be adapting well to desert island life.
One of the Americans just called me 'A Son of a Beach'

[Nurse Duckett]

Guest-Tearin said:

I'd assume some pulpy fictional character, Quentin, probably personifying the "seasick immortal" trying to get the attention of the island Nurse.

Attention has been got. How can I help? Or is too late now?

Here is my sovereign remedy for nearly everything. A good hot cup of tea and a run around the beach. OCD sufferers however, may start counting the pebbles in which case a good hot cup of tea and a run around the beach backwards, also try stroking the cat (but not backwards, they do not like this), and what have I missed?

[Oh Sea Help Me]

Nurse said:

OCD sufferers however, may start counting the pebbles in which case a good hot cup of tea and a run around the beach backwards...

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C? Dear me! I began counting grains of sand until very L8 one night. I spooned the sand into bottles, 1 spoon at a time. When I ran out of bottles, I poured it back out again, 1 spoon at a time. Then I began to separ8 the seashells by colour into 8 exact piles.

And now I'm certain there is a buried treasure here, right underneath this coconut tree. I've been digging and digging for 48 hours str8, and it should only take another 8.5 days...

[Nurse Duckett]

Guest-Oh said:

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C? Dear me! I began counting grains of sand until very L8 one night. I spooned the sand into bottles, 1 spoon at a time. When I ran out of bottles, I poured it back out again, 1 spoon at a time. Then I began to separ8 the seashells by colour into 8 exact piles.

And now I'm certain there is a buried treasure here, right underneath this coconut tree. I've been digging and digging for 48 hours str8, and it should only take another 8.5 days...

Goodness me this island has got even prettier overnight. The clickable shells and palmtrees are Absolutely Delightful IMHO.

Now then young Oh Sea (I will assume you are young since you have interposed text message style with typing on a computer keyboard style but for all I know you are posting from a cellphone in which case the interposition of the two styles is entirely understandable and probably not in need of medical attention) you have raised a number of interesting questions here.

You will find getting sand into bottles is easier using a funnel than a spoon. This also helps with getting wine into bottles. Why would anyone want to put wine into bottles? You might be decanting from a very large bottle too big for the refridge, into a more refridge-friendly size.

Counting grains of sand is not a good choice of obsession (can obsessions be chosen?). It also sounds rather dull try counting mermaids instead, or birds of paradise or even coconuts. But you're on the right track with the seashells. They are very decorative on sandcastles, in necklaces, and as a form of barter, perhaps. (exchange for goods and services?)

There probably is buried treasure here. In fact, you're looking at it.
And 8.5 is exactly half of 17.

HTH. Let me know how you get on with the sunburn (an occupational hazard for seashell collectors). A wrist strap will protect the pulse-point.

[I C U Helped Me]

Nurse said:

You will find getting sand into bottles is easier using a funnel than a spoon.

Thank you, Nurse Duckett! I will do this in 8.5 days. This way, I can funnel the same amount of sand into the same amount of bottles 8 times instead of once in the same amount of time.


By the way, how DO they get those little boats into those little bottles?

[Nurse Duckett]

Guest-I said:

Thank you, Nurse Duckett! I will do this in 8.5 days. This way, I can funnel the same amount of sand into the same amount of bottles 8 times instead of once in the same amount of time.

You are welcome.

By the way, how DO they get those little boats into those little bottles?

There's a Captain around here somewhere. Captains know that kind of thing do they not? Part of the JD, I'd have thought.

My guess is, they dehydrate the little boat first (=suck all the moisture out). Slip into bottle, fill bottle with water, give it a good hard shake or a gentle sloshing, tip out surplus water, place bottle in horizontal position, lie back and watch the miracle.

See how expertly I handled that query?

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[Mrs Winthrope]

Guest-I said:

By the way, how DO they get those little boats into those little bottles?

My dear,

I believe you can read up on it here

seafarer.netfirms.com/2-bottle.htm

Yours,

Winnie

[Mimi]

Pooka said:

Did you know --


In some Asian language (and please forgive my ignorance of exactly 'which'), the word "cr*p" is used as a listening response, like we use on the telephone, meaning something equivalent to our word "yes...".

What a lovely message board. I see that nobody has replied to this question, so may I take the liberty?

In polite spoken Thai, a man should end a sentence with the word "cr@p" and a woman ends a sentence with "ka". If it is a question, it would have an upward inflexion. You get used to it.

[Pooka]

Mimi said:

In polite spoken Thai, a man should end a sentence with the word "cr@p" and a woman ends a sentence with "ka". If it is a question, it would have an upward inflexion. You get used to it.

What about a name that ends with "ka"? I hear it is equivalent to names that end in "xia". Although names that end with "mi" are the sweetest of all.




Nice to see you, Mimi.