Oh my love he works upon the sea
On the waves that blow wild and free
He splices the ropes and he sets the sail
While southwards he roams to the home of the whale

And he ne'er thinks of me far behind
Or the torments that rage in my mind
He is mine for only part of the year
Then I'm left all alone with only my tears

All ye ladies that smell of white rose
Thank ye for your perfume to wear on my gold
Thank ye all the wives and the babies that yearn
For the man ne'er returns from hunting the sperm

Oh my love he works upon the sea
On the waves that blow wild and free
He splices the ropes and he sets the sail
While southwards he roams to the home of the whale
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from your man in
the great southern land
prisoners island

A Mountain I havnt climbed: (People used to bathe in the crater lake, too hot now I believe)
Ruapehu
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Last chance Texaco cont...
The unfolding disaster in Mesopotamia...
where is our General Maude to get us out of this mess?
Maude got the Anzacs out of Suvla,
then went on to clean up the mess in Mesopotamia.
Chap then died from bad milk. Buried outside Baghdad walls.
Previous chap, Townshend, had presided over the siege of Kut
"the greatest humiliation to have befallen the British army" ..
"especially coming so soon after Britain's ignominious withdrawal from Gallipoli"
the siege of Kut, unrelieved
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A laser guided bomb aimed to destroy a Falluja mosque
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Under assault by insurgents and unable to rely on U.S. and coalition troops for intelligence
or help under duress, private security firms in Iraq have begun to band together in the past
48 hours, organizing what may effectively be the largest Private Army in
the world, with its own rescue teams and pooled, sensitive intelligence.
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US destroying Falluja homes...This tactical "Israelization" of U.S. combat doctrine has been
accompanied by what might be called a "Sharonization"
of the Pentagon's worldview. Military theorists are now deeply involved in imagining how the
evolving capacity of high-tech warfare can contain, if not destroy, chronic "terrorist"
insurgencies rooted in the desperation of growing megaslums.

dont forget those stalwart chestnuts:
Fisky
Pilgy