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586 Re: [lissun-bag] BATM SPOILER Wantage -- rank: 633

--- Bob Kegel <bobkegel@seanet.com> wrote: > > The whole point, of course, is that the Duke of > Clarence will think > highly of Jack when a vacancy appears on the admiral's > list . > So THAT's what happened! Of course.  - Susan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

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587 Re: [lissun-bag] BATM SPOILER Wantage -- rank: 633

Gary Brown wrote: >Except that Daniel has >been a Master's Mate since the day he joined Surprise in THD as >a replacement for the missing Wantage ............. Even before that. In THD Jack tells Stephen he was rated master's mate in HMS Behemoth. I agree it's a curious promotion. Hanson might be rated master's mate in the sense that's he's ready to take the lieutenant's examiniation. He hardly seems the best choice, however, as "your true master's mate, the mate to the ma ...

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588 Re: [lissun-bag] BATM review -- rank: 633

In a message dated 11/15/99 9:30:14 AM, dseltzer@draper.com wrote: << As with most reviews, there are several moderate spoilers. Please excuse the POB content of this post. Don Seltzer>> A novel topic these days, ain't it? Rowen

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589 Re: [lissun-bag] BATM slang - but no spoiler -LONG! -- rank: 633

Kerry Webb wrote: > > At 12:36 AM 11/15/99 +0000, Anthony D. Clover wrote: [snip] > >This is not as easy a pair of questions to sort out as I thought > >originally. > > > >First, although Scapa Flow had been "for a long time" a practice ground > >for the Home and Channel Fleets, it was not apparently until 1914 that > >it was seriously developed as a base. In my present state of knowledge, > >what "long" etc. means, ...

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590 [lissun-bag] BATM review -- rank: 633

BATM was reviewed in yesterday's Boston Globe. Despite the unfortunate headline, Katherine Powers gives a thoughtful discussion of what is good and not so good about the book. http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/318/living/Messing_about_in_boats+.shtml  As with most reviews, there are several moderate spoilers. Please excuse the POB content of this post. Don Seltzer

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591 Re: [lissun-bag] BATM slang - but no spoiler -- rank: 633

Anthony D. Clover wrote: > Kerry Webb wrote: > > It's the use of "scarper", meaning "go". I had always assumed that it was> > rhyming slang for Scapa Flow, and that ther term originated from the use of> > the RN of that place as a naval base. So, when was the base at Scapa Flow> > established? > > > Partridge may just be right in my view because for example "to have a > Joddrell" is a superb bit of rhyming slang but I do ...

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592 Re: [lissun-bag] BATM slang - but no spoiler -- rank: 633

At 12:36 AM 11/15/99 +0000, Anthony D. Clover wrote: >Kerry Webb wrote: >> >> Excuse me if this has already been discussed - lissun-bag had already set >> sail on this voyage before I decided that I wanted to board. >> >> It's the use of "scarper", meaning "go". I had always assumed that it was >> rhyming slang for Scapa Flow, and that ther term originated from the use of >> the RN of that place as a naval base. So, whe ...

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593 Re: [lissun-bag] BATM slang - but no spoiler -- rank: 633

>Kerry Webb wrote: >> >> Excuse me if this has already been discussed - lissun-bag had already set >> sail on this voyage before I decided that I wanted to board. >> >> It's the use of "scarper", meaning "go". I had always assumed that it was >> rhyming slang for Scapa Flow, and that ther term originated from the use of >> the RN of that place as a naval base. So, when was the base at Scapa Flow >> established? > ...

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594 Re: [lissun-bag] BATM slang - but no spoiler -- rank: 633

Kerry Webb wrote: > > Excuse me if this has already been discussed - lissun-bag had already set > sail on this voyage before I decided that I wanted to board. > > It's the use of "scarper", meaning "go". I had always assumed that it was > rhyming slang for Scapa Flow, and that ther term originated from the use of > the RN of that place as a naval base. So, when was the base at Scapa Flow > established? > > Does anyone have access t ...

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595 Re: [lissun-bag] BATM slang - but no spoiler -- rank: 633

In a message dated 11/14/99 2:46:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, kwebb@alianet.alia.org.au writes: << It's the use of "scarper", meaning "go >> My understanding of scarper is that it means to flee without paying one's bill It will be interesting if someone can tell us where the term comes from. Faith

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596 Re: [lissun-bag] BATM SPOILER Wantage -- rank: 633

Charlezzzz@aol.com wrote: > > SPOILER NOTICE > > SPOILER ALARM > > SPOILER OILER OILER > > Why Wantage died. > > It wasn't suicide. > It wasn't Yellow Jack. > It wasn't any of the diseases of the African coast, nor was it depression at > having been cut by shepherds. > > Wantage died because POB needed his place to promote Horatio into. Even odder than supposed suicides etc is the passage where Jack laboriously explains that th ...

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597 [lissun-bag] BATM slang - but no spoiler -- rank: 633

Excuse me if this has already been discussed - lissun-bag had already set sail on this voyage before I decided that I wanted to board. It's the use of "scarper", meaning "go". I had always assumed that it was rhyming slang for Scapa Flow, and that ther term originated from the use of the RN of that place as a naval base. So, when was the base at Scapa Flow established? Does anyone have access to Partridge or something similar to see when the expression came into use? ...

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598 [lissun-bag] Question BATM Mild Spoiler -- rank: 633

Tried to ask this question yesterday but never saw it appear. Sorry if duplicate message: At the beginning of Blue at the Mizzen, Captain Aubrey orders Mr. Harding to signal "carrying dispatches" if approached by any King's ship. Flying under false colors can be explained away, but this is worse thanfalse colors. This is flying a wrong signal to your own side for convenience. Isn't it? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at ...

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599 [lissun-bag] BATM SPOILER Wantage -- rank: 633

SPOILER NOTICE SPOILER ALARM SPOILER OILER OILER Why Wantage died. It wasn't suicide. It wasn't Yellow Jack. It wasn't any of the diseases of the African coast, nor was it depression at having been cut by shepherds. Wantage died because POB needed his place to promote Horatio into. You might call it fate. Or an act of the god who had created him. Or sheer bad luck. But that damn child Horatio, who is just to snivvely perfect, came along (a noble prince unknown, a mighty boxer, a ...

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600 [lissun-bag] Question BATM Mild Spoiler -- rank: 633

At the beginning of Blue at the Mizzen, Captain Aubrey orders Mr. Harding to signal "carrying dispatches" if approached by any King's ship. Flying under false colors can be explained away, but this is worse than false colors. This is flying a wrong signal to your own side for convenience. Isn't it? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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