In article , Cub Driver wrote:
After you've been shanghaied, lashed by the cat o' nine tails, fed on
weevils and biscuits, sent aloft in a gale, sodomized by the bosun,
and had your teeth fall out from scurvy, precious little of that magic
remains.

I always thought it amusing that a supposedly insulting term for the
British is "Limey", when it actually reflects smartness - the vitamin C
that prevented British sailors from suffering from scurvy.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
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