Heh, some good informations thereI used to love my cardboard box spaceships, though, and you could say much the same thing about computer games, or a whole slew of other entertainment (including stories and holidays) - they don't actually cause anything marvellous to happen. It's very difficult to get anything marvellous to happen in life, so that seems an unfairly high standard to request from a boat. Come to think of it, boats are on Ian Dury's list of reasons to be cheerful:
Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly
Good golly Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley and nanny goats
18-wheeler Scammels, dominecker camels
All other mammals plus equal votes
Seeing Piccadilly, Fanny Smith and Willy
Being rather silly, and porridge oats
A bit of grin and bear it, a bit of come and share it
You're welcome, we can spare it - yellow socks
Too short to be haughty, too nutty to be naughty
Going on 40 - no electric shocks
The juice of the carrot, the smile of the parrot
A little drop of claret - anything that rocks
Elvis and Scotty, days when I ain't spotty,
Sitting on the potty - curing smallpox
Which is a completely ambiguous song, but I think emphasises that a boat ... a boat is just this thing, you know?
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Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly
Good golly Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley and nanny goats
18-wheeler Scammels, dominecker camels
All other mammals plus equal votes
Seeing Piccadilly, Fanny Smith and Willy
Being rather silly, and porridge oats
A bit of grin and bear it, a bit of come and share it
You're welcome, we can spare it - yellow socks
Too short to be haughty, too nutty to be naughty
Going on 40 - no electric shocks
The juice of the carrot, the smile of the parrot
A little drop of claret - anything that rocks
Elvis and Scotty, days when I ain't spotty,
Sitting on the potty - curing smallpox
Which is a completely ambiguous song, but I think emphasises that a boat ... a boat is just this thing, you know?
Cheerful stuff.Nannygoats ftw.
I think that surfing and motorcycles can make a lot of things look pale by comparison. My brother actually raced bikes for a few years and he's like a sober junkie now: nothing is fun relative to that. The upside is he has always wanted kids and now he's really prepared having put the best things in life behind him.
I suppose that the moral is to avoid peak moments???
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I think that surfing and motorcycles can make a lot of things look pale by comparison. My brother actually raced bikes for a few years and he's like a sober junkie now: nothing is fun relative to that. The upside is he has always wanted kids and now he's really prepared having put the best things in life behind him.
I suppose that the moral is to avoid peak moments???