"Martin Baxter" wrote in message
...
Wilbur Hubbard wrote:


Perhaps because it goes well with the stripe of the same color on
his
belly?

Cheers
Marty

Silly boy! A coward is either is a "yellow belly" or has a "yellow
stripe up his back," not on the belly. . . If you're gonna try
hurling
insults at the invictive Captain Neal try doing it right, at least.
Damned ignorant foreigners!

Foolish fellow, I didn't employ the term "Coward", you came up with
that
all by yourself. Perhaps you know something more about that and would
like to enlighten us?

Cheers
Marty


Churlish child! A rather anemic wiggle there. The hook is still firmly
implanted in your lower lip. . . One does not make references to yellow
or yellow stripes upon the human anatomy without implying cowardice.
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/myellowbellied.html

Wilbur Hubbard

"Joe" wrote in message
oups.com...
On Mar 23, 11:57 am, "Wilbur Hubbard"

Sailors who needed to take a dump
would climb onto the nets at the heads of the ship, drop trow and let
it
rip. Often if the seas were rough the sailors benefited from a good
washdown as the bows plunged into the seas. Mother Nature's bidet.

Wilbur Hubbard

It's amazing how you romance about harnessing the power of the Sea


Where exactly is your cockpit ?
Stern maybe?
I bet it's a pooper scooper.

Joe


My cockpit = Mysterry Mermaid. Virgin, too - after one gets past the
first four inches that is . . . Bwahahahhahahahahhahahhahahahahah!

Wilbur Hubbard

The brilliant Capt's boat is yellow for the same reasons Patton's helmet was
chrome and his pistol handles were ivory.

Olympian, brilliant thinker, sailor of note there are so many similarities
between the good Capt and the Great General.

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mickay/patton.htm

contains such gems:

" By 1935 Patton had risen to the permanent rank of lieutenant colonel and
had returned to Hawaii, this time sailing all the way there on his own boat.
"

"According to Patton, "A man of diffident manner will never inspire
confidence."' Patton's hard-nosed discipline and flamboyance succeeded in
"waking up'' his men and won him their respect. He always wore his
ivory-handled revolvers and medals, partly because he was a great showman,
but primarily because having his men see all the trappings of rank let them
know they were commanded by a fighting general. Patton also knew that
loyalty to a leader would inspire men to take on objectives against all
odds; his troops proved this theory correct again and again. "

Obviously he did not mince words to spare the sensibilities of the thin
skinned or ignorant:

"One congressman even proposed that Patton be made Secretary of War, but
Patton's lack of diplomacy guaranteed the suggestion was never taken
seriously."

Lloyd

Lloyd Bonafide wrote:
The brilliant Capt's boat is yellow for the same reasons Patton's helmet was
chrome and his pistol handles were ivory.

Olympian, brilliant thinker, sailor of note there are so many similarities
between the good Capt and the Great General.


Lloyd


Bi polar disorder....

"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
...

"Martin Baxter" wrote in message
...
Wilbur Hubbard wrote:


Perhaps because it goes well with the stripe of the same color on his
belly?

Cheers
Marty

Silly boy! A coward is either is a "yellow belly" or has a "yellow
stripe up his back," not on the belly. . . If you're gonna try hurling
insults at the invictive Captain Neal try doing it right, at least.
Damned ignorant foreigners!

Foolish fellow, I didn't employ the term "Coward", you came up with that
all by yourself. Perhaps you know something more about that and would
like to enlighten us?

Cheers
Marty


Churlish child! A rather anemic wiggle there. The hook is still firmly
implanted in your lower lip. . . One does not make references to yellow
or yellow stripes upon the human anatomy without implying cowardice.
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/myellowbellied.html

It's great to have you back, Neal. Bubbles couldn't come close to the
*master of trolldom.*

Max