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To: Chode

“Any port in a storm.” applies here, I’m a’thinking!


28 posted on 06/15/2022 4:26:00 PM PDT by pingman ("I ain't in no ways tarred.." of WINNING!)
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To: pingman

been known to happen...


30 posted on 06/15/2022 4:58:09 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: pingman

I first read that expression in John Cleland’s “Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure”, 1748.

Fanny is engaged in her preferred pursuits against a wall in a park with a sailor, when Jack Tar tries one of the Royal Navy’s traditions and she objects....


31 posted on 06/15/2022 5:14:50 PM PDT by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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