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What is a Bird Farm? Many of our sons and daughters may get first hand experience with this one!
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Permalink Reply by Lucie on
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I know a wog is a sailer that is trying to become a shellback.............crossing the equator, you are a golden shellback is you cross the equator at 0-0............check out my page and see my sons injury from his wog day..........LOL, after all was said and done and he had made it through safely, he slipped and fell in the berthing and split his head open..................silly man...............
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OK I just saw your pics............. Alright your son is also a funny guy :) What a sence of humor he has..................Love the pics. (( even the pollywog / shellback one )) Now are there 2 different kinds of shellbacks ? regular and golden .......... Wow I had never heard this before. Cool
I love this not only do we get to know what a word is BUT we may even get tidbits too.
I have another word I have heard before but have not researched it so it may not apply anymore.........
To use it in a sentence is your son going to try to Mustang ?
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Permalink Reply by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on
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Okay smartie pants - whats a Mustang?!
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Hey - I just finished that episode of Carrier so I know about pollywogs and shellbacks now :-) but what is a "golden"
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OK My son wants to Mustang .................... tee-hee did research and it still applies.
Mustang ........... An officer that started out as a enlisted sailor Rose threw the ranks :)
And I dont know about the golden part ........waiting to here from Lucie on that one !
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Ohhhhh I have one that I dont know yet
What do brown shoes & black shoes mean ?
I know that brown shoes wouldnt be caught dead in black shoes ( so I have heard I just dont know why )
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hmmmm...I never seen brown shoes on a Sailor - must get to the bottom of this one!
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My guess is it has something to do with ship sailors vs surface sailors. But that is reallly just a guess.
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Whoopie ...........want to know how I know so much already ?
Its right there. Shell has all kinds of things for me to research everyday I seem to get another from her :)
Thanks Shell !!
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Cool - I hope we have a lot of Mustangs in the works!
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Wonder if Goldens - are shellbacks that have done the equator multiple times? Lucie - educate us please!
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I know I have to know also ...............
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