Stargazer wrote:
Happiness is a Trojan that doesn't leak.
I am peacefully reading through old posts on
The Alpha Agora and I come to this. I am not quite awake, and mid sip of my coffee! The coffee went one way and I was laughing out loud, choking, but laughing. We interpret things so differently, for Stargazer was referring to Trojan boats, and my perverse mind thought he meant these kinds of Trojans. M. Henri Day's following comment of
wicked only seemed to cement the idea in my head.
Regardless...both examples work, and happiness is a Trojan that doesn't leak, be it a boat or otherwise!
Thank you for the laugh, what a way to start the day!
Then that lexical land mine fulfilled its purpose.
Yes, indeed, I almost killed someone once by delivering the punchline of the Fugawee Indian joke when he was in mid-sip! The timing really was purely accidental; I wasn't watching him.
My 25' single screw (
) '72 Trojan is in
this picture. It's the next-to-last one out, with doubled lines (black and white), just this side of the blue-hulled sailboat.
Note the height of the deck above the pilings the lines are attached to. That's at least three or four feet above the tops of the pilings. This was taken about 11:00 am on Friday, September 19, 2003, after Hurricane Isabel came through. High tide was about 2:00 or 3:00 am that morning (I was sound asleep!), so this is just about low tide after the storm. You can see that the high-water mark on the pilings is about a foot or so above the current water level.
During normal tides, the tops of those pilings are 2 to 4 feet above the deck! The normal tidal range here is about 1 to 2 feet, no more than three feet, but with the wind blowing the water across the bay and up the river it was a good 6 to 8 feet above normal.
Other pictures are
here. In some of those you'll see some shed-roofed structures that seem to be built in the middle of the water. They are actually built on telephone poles at the edge of the bulkhead at the normal water's edge. You can see the high-water mark on them even better than you can see it on the pilings. They house the electric meters for the dockside power at each slip.