And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
...Wowser, anchor aweigh became anchor away!
ReplyDeleteMotor skills . Some don't have them .
ReplyDeleteThere's a good one of an aircraft carrier loosing the anchor, filmed below in the anchor locker. I wouldn't want to be there.
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ReplyDeleteSomething so simple goes so wrong and then gets so quiet.
ReplyDeleteAnchor's aweigh is when you pull it up off the bottom.
ReplyDeleteAweigh is to cast off, i.e, let loose.
ReplyDeleteWeigh anchor is retrieving.
Literally the rode or cable takes the weight of the anchor.
Somebody's going back to peeling taters.
ReplyDeleteIf you do not schedule maintenance for your equipment, it will schedule it for you.
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