Definitely a bad hair day if I couldn't get that right 🤣

Suppose its the politically correct way of saying its a Cock fight. Pretty much illegal in most jurisdictions though. 😁

Battle of Salamis? That I'd like to see. Takes place in Italy I presume.
Part of the War of the Spicy Sausages!😁
Bon appetit 😋
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Doug, a visceral fin is someone native to Finland. Like its part of it. Inseparable. 😀

Witness for the prosecution:-
"visceral does not describe any specific fin on a fish"
Of course not! Coz it doesn't describe ANY fin on a fish, or anything else for that matter.
In a general sense it describes a deep 'gut feeling' that you 'know' is right, but you can't logically explain why.🤔

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When folk lore and history collides...let the facts call their own witnesses.

Ouch!!!😐 Completely missed your irony, Doug.
Too bad you didn’t make it to Woods Hole. Five major science institutions located there. WHOI, Marine Biological Laboratories, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Geological Survey, & George Woodwell Climate Research Center.💡💡

Sorry Chum,
I think you missed my 'subtle' irony😉
A play on Capt. Kidd and 'Kidding', and a reference to the question 'off North Carolina'.
🤓'C- Must read the question'.
I never doubted that the Capt. Kidd bar existed. Why would I?
Never made it there but I did manage to visit 'Cheers' in Boston (famous from the TV series) in December '86. Great atmosphere and welcome, 'Hey guys, we got us a real live Limey here!'.
How I got back to the hotel I don't remember😁
Cheers (😁), Doug😎

Not in the least RN. The Capt. Kidd is a long time fixture in Woods Hole. Not as long as Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1930) but long time nonetheless. Directly across the street from my WHOI office, local lore has it that when a major hurricane hit Woods Hole in 1953, they closed the bar when the water was waist deep.
Yes, Woods Hole, Massachusetts is waaay north of North Carolina.

You have to be Kidding Chum!😉
If I'm not mistaken Woods Hole (famous for the ocean research institute) is far to the north of North Carolina?
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I took a guess. I thought Blackbeard was excecuted in London and his corpse hung in a gibbet cage on the banks of the Thames...

Edward Teach if I remember correctly. NO, I wasn't there!🙄
Another QoTD deja vu I think.
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Wrong!! I HAD to guess Capt. Kidd because of the so-named watering hole (bar) in Woods Hole. 🤣

C could also be correct. They prevent sonor detecting the submarine, so camoflaging it from the hunters...

D would be correct as well, if sonar detected them depth charges would follow and they would damage them. 🤣

Inspired guess 😁

The Nazis first tried this out in 1944 in the English Channel (D’ACCORD, pour nos camarades français « La Manche »😉). They remained undetected for several days, and sank several ships, until unfortunately (for them!) they hit a mine💥. Contact mines are deaf and dumb!🙊🙉
The 'Lost Ships' docu series comes to my rescue yet again😁 Highly recommendable.
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Just answered todays question, know nothing about submarines other than they disappear under water for months at a time. lucky guess, I got it right today.

Been through all of the French ones on ferries.

I say chaps Ostend is in Belgium!
Roy

Same here, I thought Ostend sounded too Germanic so I went with it

Lucky guess.

Lovely, thanks for the poems chaps! They brought back memories of doing daft things with our children when they were small.

I used to tell them a story every night before bed, I got as much fun out of it as they did.

I would sing the Troll song or was it Billy goat gruff? My daughter's favourite was the story of the ugly duckling, she used to hug herself when listening and I would sing through that as well.
Must have struck a strong chord with her as she now does just that as a Personal Shopper for ladies and writes and gives courses on colours and which ones to wear.

I have been through the courses she does although with another tutor some years ago as a guinea pig and am now trusted to purchase my own clothes!

Even my wife is happy about it!
Roy

.........more by Edward Lear
I like it

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
BY EDWARD LEAR
I
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"

II
Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-Tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.

III
"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

Here is the tale in full, for those who are unfamiliar with the works of Edward Lear
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, ‘You’ll all be drowned!’
They called aloud, ‘Our Sieve ain’t big,
But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig!
In a Sieve we’ll go to sea!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

II

They sailed away in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they sailed so fast,
With only a beautiful pea-green veil
Tied with a riband by way of a sail,
To a small tobacco-pipe mast;
And every one said, who saw them go,
‘O won’t they be soon upset, you know!
For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long,
And happen what may, it’s extremely wrong
In a Sieve to sail so fast!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

III

The water it soon came in, it did,
The water it soon came in;
So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet
In a pinky paper all folded neat,
And they fastened it down with a pin.
And they passed the night in a crockery-jar,
And each of them said, ‘How wise we are!
Though the sky be dark, and the voyage be long,
Yet we never can think we were rash or wrong,
While round in our Sieve we spin!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

IV

And all night long they sailed away;
And when the sun went down,
They whistled and warbled a moony song
To the echoing sound of a coppery gong,
In the shade of the mountains brown.
‘O Timballo! How happy we are,
When we live in a sieve and a crockery-jar,
And all night long in the moonlight pale,
We sail away with a pea-green sail,
In the shade of the mountains brown!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

V

They sailed to the Western Sea, they did,
To a land all covered with trees,
And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,
And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart,
And a hive of silvery Bees.
And they bought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws,
And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws,
And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree,
And no end of Stilton Cheese.
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

VI

And in twenty years they all came back,
In twenty years or more,
And every one said, ‘How tall they’ve grown!’
For they’ve been to the Lakes, and the Torrible Zone,
And the hills of the Chankly Bore;
And they drank their health, and gave them a feast
Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast;
And everyone said, ‘If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,—
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Copilot
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In Edward Lear’s whimsical poem “The Jumblies,” the Jumblies famously went to sea in a Sieve1. The poem begins with the lines:

“They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea…”

This nonsensical and adventurous tale captures the spirit of the Jumbles’ determination to set sail despite the impracticality of their chosen vessel. ( Whimsical beings with Green Heads & Blue Hands ) what ?

A very lucky guess.

Well I am now at 100% for the month. How long before that gets messed up with some weird question 😀. Come on UK we are only at 85%.

Not J R Hartley then 😂

Coolidge liked to fish as well. If his name was there I would have picked him.

I thought he was the one that invented the vacuum cleaner! So he wrote books on fishing as well, a talented man.

Meanwhile my score goes down again.

Roy

Si, comprendo

Muy fácil Commodore.
Mar de Irlanda.
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Yes. AI is poor linguist, not too good at many things.

If they wanted the answer in Spanish they should have asked the question in Spanish, or asked “what is the Spanish name of the body of water….” Or at least “ what do Cubans and Mexicans call the body of water”.

Next day question could be “what do Cubans and Mexicans call the Irish Sea” ,maybe the Irish Canal?

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Do we get double credit for AI mistakes??

Hi Garth and Commodore-H (AKA Lieutenant!!🙄)
I think our AI is simply a poor linguist😉
The Yucatán Channel (AKA Straits of Yucatán) is the anglicised name.
The Mexicans and Cubans know it as Canal de Yucatán
Saludos y buena salud amigos, Doug😎

My IA made same mistake so we are safe from AI taking over ( The body of water that connects the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea is the Yucatán Channel.)

AI got it wrong.

It's the Yucatan Channel, not canal.

Yes, Mike and Commodore-H, another strangely and awkwardly worded question.
However, given the choices, the only answer was obvious.
Dave B

I agree strongly

What a question.

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What is the term for the distance between the front and back of a sail?
We have centimetres and metres!
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What question!
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LG Michel-C

But Germany was not listed?

AustinG

The countries bordering the Baltic Sea are Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Germany1. Among these, Germany is on the opposite side of the Baltic Sea from the others My stupid AI can't answer that question so I will take a guess. And I was wrong as usual.

Yes Roy
When it happened is more important than where it happened. Besides if it happened, there is bound to be a post or sign to that effect. This allows people from both sides of the pond to discuss why it happened.

Geography rears its ugly head again! I never did pay much attention at school, like history it has been and now gone.
However, I was alive but unaware of what was happening 80 years ago and spent a moment remembering with everyone else on those that gave their today for our tomorrow.

So many, so young, and all those mums and dads that lost their sons.

Roy

Didn't have a scooby doo 😕

Todays was a well lucky guess.
I know nothing about siling boats. I never wanted anything to do with them when I messed about with boats up on the Norfolk Broads for the 50 odd years I was boating up there. It looked like too much hard work.
I stuck with outboards until I could afford a boat with an inboard with an outdrive. It was a 1962 Norwegian built Ancas Sea Queen with a Volvo 1600cc converted to marine with a AQ80 Outdrive. It was the first of the boat Outdrives before Mercury built them. These 21' boats were built for use on the Norwegian Fjords and some had the cabin roofs removed and were removed for racing.

OK, in my opinion, the question regarding the distance from the front to the back of a sail is REALLY awkwardly worded. I got it because none of the other choices were remotely close to applying.

I agree with Chum444. It could just be that some people around the world use different phrases. However I live in the UK and went straight to haul-out. Although I have never heard anyone say "are we doing a haul-out today?" it is usually things like "are we going to haul that boat out today?" Certainly hauling something out of the water is very common. My dad used to tell me about hauling the small boats out of the water during his summer job on the island of Millport Scotland. According to the Cambridge dictionary the verb Haul means "to pull something heavy slowly and with difficulty"

I’ve never heard the term haul-out, BUT I’ve never been around anything bigger than a bass boat either. So I agree with Bill, as he and many others on this board have much more real nautical knowledge than I..