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Default I pity you land lubbers who are pretend sailors.

Checkmate wrote:
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If you wish to make a contraction of "of course," "'course" would be
more appropriate than "'coarse," but...


'coarse is a deliberate red herring, Checkers... I had assumed an
intelligent lad like yourself would cotton on to that /off the plate\
.... so to speak - that you choose to maketh an issue suggests to me my
confidence in your intellectual prowess is perchance inflated - No?..
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