"Marine Airdale" wrote in message
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Received this in an e-mail this morning....makes an interesting
read.....

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I got my letter in after all. I'm getting too short for this ****.

Oh well, statistically speaking the rest of cruise should be smooth
sailing. What are the odds something like this will happen again?

I love planting the seeds of irony.

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Thanks for this, it's an interesting story. Just one question: what is your
correspondent intimating by "I got my letter in after all. I'm getting too
short for this ****."?
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Andrew Chaplin
SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO
(If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.)