So sad it is to see ole Sol a-settin'

We log an era ending, mourn the loss,

And wait and watch and wonder are we getting'

A Captain new, a curio, a boss?



As each new storm brings changes to the shorelines

And washes gone the muck beneath our decks,

This tempest too shall pass and we, the bylines,

Must welcome in the next peculiar Wreck!



Scout





"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message
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BOTTOMED OUT

Matt Colie leaves, another rat the newsgroup ship deserting!
Gone to the dogs, indeed it has, by politics it's split.
The outside worldly pressures have us all to type reverting,
With our postings mostly missing all the wholesome, old-time
sh*t.

The glory days of ay-ess-ay are now far in the past!
The remnants but a shadow wan of what they were before.
There's little left 'cept spits and spats and siphons at the
last,
Though Bobsprit does his solid best to fatten it once more.

It's Captain Neal's departure! That's what's queered the pitch!
So for you and me, Matt Colie, I'm afraid life's...just a bitch.


Flying Tadpole

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