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2 months ago Prolagus said:

See also race.

3 months ago reesetee said:

Wow. And here I thought I was just pulling dontcry's leg. ;-)

3 months ago Prolagus said:

hee hee!

3 months ago dontcry said:

Yes, it is. If you look at #3 and then go straight away to #7 you'll see that the painters and the tripping lines go hand-in-hand. If you loosing the tripping lines, then ipso facto...the painters must go!

3 months ago reesetee said:

It is??

3 months ago dontcry said:

Good point.

3 months ago reesetee said:

Silly dontcry. How are you supposed to boarding remained crew to the lifeboat by the Jacob's ladder if you don't eventually let go the painters? I mean, really....

3 months ago dontcry said:

Skip - that's particularly funny as neither character has any hands!

3 months ago dontcry said:

Why can't the painters come aboard? That's not nice.

3 months ago Prolagus said:

It's halfway between a cradle stopper and Schadenfreude.

3 months ago reesetee said:

I don't know about the craudestopper, but whatever you do, lover the lifeboat at to the surface!

3 months ago bilby said:

Fantastic skip, especially in those giant letters!

Back to craudestopper, the original Italian says perno di sicurezza which would be a kind of security- or holding-pin, like on a hand grenade for example. In this case it seems to be a pin/mechanism that prevents the lifeboat release lever from being casually deployed. But ... craudestopper?

3 months ago skipvia said:

But there's no translation error like a Chinese-English translation error!

3 months ago skipvia said:

Hee hee! Reminds me of this admonition from the portico of the Duomo in Siena.

*wondering how Prolagus did so well on the TOEFL with models like these*

3 months ago Prolagus said:

What the hell?!

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