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Thought this may help out when looking for those hard to describe bits you mayhttp://www.nationallampoon.com/nl/02_fb/impers/02_rigging.asp need.
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Hmmm Had trouble with my Slug-nuggets once. Haven't walked the same since...
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<i>44.crap-hallyards</i> - are these what you get from being a tight-arse at the chandlers?;)
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and the less said about 190 the better
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Ever jumped in a cold Scottish pond?
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amixture of 190 & 191 I would imagine[:0]
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Oh good, a resource to send to the students taking the Ship construction module......
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I am so ploease I have made a serious contribution to all you experts. Bet some of these come up in the next quiz. :D
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If they do, then the compiler could end up with 51
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It seems we have unwittingly given ourselves a form of code to throw insults etc. stu busy at work, so therefore 2328)
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and the sad thing is that a number of them are Google-whacks. (sad 'cos I've just tried some)
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Rev Spooner apparently used to have a bad attack of the 256's - until he gave up the baked beans. And is the opposite of 73 "quite nice tudges"
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isn't 72 a mate of rudolph:?:
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Well I'm not sailing 243! And the golfers have pinched 182 and 183! Is 60 the latter day saints or Osama Bin Laden?
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