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Re: Toss me a line someone?
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Sat, 6 May 2000 08:31:13 GMT
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James Howse wrote all manner of stuff about a wonderful ship on the wrong
side of Australia's longest mountain range, facing a distinct lack of sea.
This story definitely warrants discussing in .pirates, and then cries out to
have some pictures taken and lobbed up on a website somewhere (two
somewheres immediately come to mind James ;-).
Obviously, we will need to understand how the ship came to be there, and
being trucked over the Blue Mountains in a cardboard box before being
assembled by 12 year olds just doesn't cut it.
Hmmmm.
I'm thinking a bold time travelling experiment in the late 1700s,
fantastically successful but for the failure to realise that travel in time
does not necessarily mean travel in space. As a consequence, the ship
stayed still in space and moved in time, while good 'ole planet Earth moved
on in space. By some wildly improbable coincidence, the ship just happened
to reappear in time when the Earth just happened to be nearby. With the
ship appearing 43m above the ground, there was much consternation as she
immediately dropped 43m to the ground, onto the soft, sloping side of a
hill, and skated down into a river in the bottom of a ravine, with a
waterfall at both ends, on the wrong side of Australia's longest mountain
range, facing a distinct lack of sea.
Not a bad effort on the fly really.
Gives you the opportunity to pick your period and go for your life. And if
the gentle reader can cop that little tale, anything else you put in the
story will feel eminently realistic.
Regards
Richard
Still baldly going...
Check out Port Block at http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/port/
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| Ok, the story is I'm about to get my hands on a Sea Lion (Caribbean Clipper for those who are nomologically challanged). Eventually I'll find it's way into The Governor's pacific fleet but at the moment it's on the wrong side of Australia's only (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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