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22nd March 2009, 18:06
markabilly

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Originally Posted by Easy Drifter

I was hatched in London, England of Cdn. parents.

Sorry about thier mistake
23rd March 2009, 23:24
Mark in Oshawa

Drifter...actually I am thinking I don't know. I can guess but I will let you guys go at this for a bit. As for tiny monsters....I wont get THAT either....and Donkey will kill me if I Booble again...
24th March 2009, 22:10
schmenke

Drifter... Kingston?

(I think we can dispense with that "tiny monsters" question :dozey: )
25th March 2009, 00:48
Easy Drifter

Sorry. Not Kingston
I thought this would be an easy one.
Now that he is back Markabilly is dropping more hints when we aren't too busy insulting each other.
I just hope no one thinks we are serious!! :eek:
26th March 2009, 22:46
markabilly

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Originally Posted by Easy Drifter

Sorry. Not Kingston
I thought this would be an easy one.
Now that he is back Markabilly is dropping more hints when we aren't too busy insulting each other.
I just hope no one thinks we are serious!! :eek:

I am always serious and I am hung up and hung over over the names of two british rowboats of clearly insignifigant unimportance somewhwere around the great lakes that not even the oshawa boy knows...to be thinking about hints as to where tiny monsters breed, but okay,
have you people no imagination, no perception, that I must open the door to you with more hints?
the reason for the name is no longer true
donKeys and wild hairy asses are close and Caroline is even closer if she were not another lost angel (and that is a double hint) but the white dove sleeps, yet how many years will it take
finally not only where tiny monsters breed but a place of death for those caroline loves most
26th March 2009, 23:14
Tazio

Wild Guess

The tarantula gets its name from the city of Taranto, a city in southern Italy. Between the 15th and 17th centuries, Taranto was hit by a dance craze unlike any other. Many people there were afflicted by an illness called "tarantism," also named after Taranto. This illness was characterized by a hysterical impulse to dance. Some people claimed that tarantism was caused by the bite of the tarantula and they thought that dancing off the venom was the only cure.
26th March 2009, 23:26
donKey jote

the answer my friend is still blowing in the wind :confused:
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27th March 2009, 00:24
Easy Drifter

Mark in Oshawa knows. He just didn't answer because he was going on the road. We discussed it privately. The port also needs naming. It was a major military establishment in the 1800's with an army garrison.
US Navy did not consider one of them to be a rowboat at the time. The other smaller one was an unarmed supply vessel.
Both are replicas and even the larger one does not now carry guns, except for a saluting 2 pdr. At one time she had a broadside of 6 pdrs. I will not say how many until later.
There were other warships stationed there in the 1800's in addition to the replicas there now. Their guns were removed when Canada and the US signed a Treaty banning warships on the Great Lakes. I believe that was in effect until WW2.
27th March 2009, 01:11
markabilly

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tazio

Wild Guess

The tarantula gets its name from the city of Taranto, a city in southern Italy. Between the 15th and 17th centuries, Taranto was hit by a dance craze unlike any other. Many people there were afflicted by an illness called "tarantism," also named after Taranto. This illness was characterized by a hysterical impulse to dance. Some people claimed that tarantism was caused by the bite of the tarantula and they thought that dancing off the venom was the only cure.

close in time not space

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

the answer my friend is still blowing in the wind :confused:
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Not
27th March 2009, 01:12
markabilly

Quote:

Originally Posted by Easy Drifter

Mark in Oshawa knows. He just didn't answer because he was going on the road. We discussed it privately. The port also needs naming. It was a major military establishment in the 1800's with an army garrison.
US Navy did not consider one of them to be a rowboat at the time. The other smaller one was an unarmed supply vessel.
Both are replicas and even the larger one does not now carry guns, except for a saluting 2 pdr. At one time she had a broadside of 6 pdrs. I will not say how many until later.
There were other warships stationed there in the 1800's in addition to the replicas there now. Their guns were removed when Canada and the US signed a Treaty banning warships on the Great Lakes. I believe that was in effect until WW2.

replicas? The royal navy is reduced to sailing around in REPLICAS!!!

and no real guns????
27th March 2009, 01:54
Easy Drifter

Ain't too many real sailing ships built in the early 1800's still afloat and that can still sail.
The Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817 limited warships on the great lakes to the maximum of 1 18 pdr. It also limited the number of armed ships on the upper lakes to two from each country.
Today, the US Coast Guard has numerous armed 'Cutters' (some are over 200 feet) on the Great Lakes although all they carry are machine guns.
Both the RCN and the USN often have warships doing visits on the Great Lakes although none are stationed there. There have been visits by the RN but I do not think any other country.
There are several decommissioned warships on the Great Lakes as museums.

History lesson over.
27th March 2009, 03:38
markabilly

Quote:

Originally Posted by Easy Drifter

Ain't too many real sailing ships built in the early 1800's still afloat and that can still sail.
The Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817 limited warships on the great lakes to the maximum of 1 18 pdr. It also limited the number of armed ships on the upper lakes to two from each country.
Today, the US Coast Guard has numerous armed 'Cutters' (some are over 200 feet) on the Great Lakes although all they carry are machine guns.
Both the RCN and the USN often have warships doing visits on the Great Lakes although none are stationed there. There have been visits by the RN but I do not think any other country.
There are several decommissioned warships on the Great Lakes as museums.

History lesson over.

?So these ain't real ships of the real royal BRITISH navy, just make believe ??
just some museum/tourist attraction.....Since i never been a tourist to the great lakes, and the us navy pretty much ran the brits out of the great lakes, this question is a little like asking who lives in a house about two blocks over from where I live....mere local yokel kind of thing. funny though what you picked as a subject compared to mine...
27th March 2009, 03:39
Tazio

Are we on the subject of ships, or tiny monsters, or :confused:
27th March 2009, 04:04
markabilly

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Originally Posted by Tazio

Are we on the subject of ships, or tiny monsters, or :confused:

I thought it was condoms :confused:

yet oddly enuff, there be a connection (but not with condoms)
27th March 2009, 04:20
Tazio

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Originally Posted by markabilly

I thought it was condoms :confused:

yet oddly enuff, there be a connection (but not with condoms)

Ok, Rats!!! Yea Rats!!! spreading Bubonic plague :p :
27th March 2009, 04:27
markabilly

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Originally Posted by Tazio

Ok, Rats!!! Yea Rats!!! spreading Bubonic plague :p :

???????????????????
my question truly is a point of geography and the presence of certain animals, and you were earlier be making the connection u mention but NOW no longer be true-----but i will give you some latitude since you just started paying attention to the lesson
27th March 2009, 04:32
Tazio

Quote:

Originally Posted by markabilly

???????????????????
my question truly is a point of geography and the presence of certain animals, and you were earlier be making the connection u mention but NOW no longer be true-----but i will give you some latitude since you just started paying attention to the lesson

Rats :(
27th March 2009, 04:37
markabilly

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Originally Posted by Tazio

Rats :(

NO NO NOT rats

but i have used symonyns or the actual words spread out and buried in all these q and answers for the name and its reason(s)
27th March 2009, 05:27
Easy Drifter

Although not manned by RN the two vessel are on the RN list.
Do not forget I want the name of the Harbour.

When the Treaty was signed the larger one and her sister ship were the largest and most powerful naval ships on the upper lakes. Several years after the War of 1812.
27th March 2009, 13:53
markabilly

Quote:

Originally Posted by Easy Drifter

Although not manned by RN the two vessel are on the RN list.
Do not forget I want the name of the Harbour.

When the Treaty was signed the larger one and her sister ship were the largest and most powerful naval ships on the upper lakes. Several years after the War of 1812.

nobody but some very very local canuck would know that, and even Mark had trouble figuring out whatever you were taalking about. OTOH, mine is something every history buff and goe buff, including esp you should know....speaking of drifting.....oh well, well I woke up this morning and got myself some kool aid....
27th March 2009, 18:01
schmenke

This thread stopped being enjoyable several pages ago :dozey:
27th March 2009, 23:16
Easy Drifter

Sorry you feel that way Schmenke. I thought we were having some fun.
So here are my answers:
Discovery Harbour, Penatang, Georgian Bay.
HMS Bee Topsail Schooner.
HMS Tecumseth Topsail Schooner, original armament 6x6lb cannon.
I will now leave this thread. Goodby.
27th March 2009, 23:48
markabilly

Quote:

Originally Posted by Easy Drifter

Sorry you feel that way Schmenke. I thought we were having some fun.
So here are my answers:
Discovery Harbour, Penatang, Georgian Bay.
HMS Bee Topsail Schooner.
HMS Tecumseth Topsail Schooner, original armament 6x6lb cannon.
I will now leave this thread. Goodby.

Congratulations-I thought none of you would ever get this one!!!

Anyway:"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern........I'll tell you about the heartache and the loss of God"
28th March 2009, 05:41
Mark in Oshawa

I knew the answer after some thought but local knowledge helps and Easy Drifter is locked into his local area in his mindset for questions. It dooms me at times also....
28th March 2009, 13:03
markabilly

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

I knew the answer after some thought but local knowledge helps and Easy Drifter is locked into his local area in his mindset for questions. It dooms me at times also....

I tried to get a hold of him via the private message since he sent me one, but I can not get it to work
28th March 2009, 16:05
Easy Drifter

I know. I tried to access it with no luck. Tried to send you one telling you that. No luck.
29th March 2009, 00:42
Mark in Oshawa

Private messages say I have two messages waiting for me, one I know from you Markabilly, but the forum's page for that access wont come up.
10th April 2009, 05:05
markabilly

Since Easy done got his feeling hurt :bigcry:

Which of course brought me great
:laugh:

and nobody seems to be trying any more to answer the horse latitude question, I thought i would repeat the hints and add a few more:

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Originally Posted by markabilly

so an easy question:

where breed tiny monsters?

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Originally Posted by markabilly

Well
Never undertood why it was not fur, but may be it is the lenght

Anyway U B Closer than U Know

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Originally Posted by markabilly

Another hint for you donKey, is you....

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Originally Posted by markabilly

okay another hint: It ain't true no more

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Originally Posted by markabilly

Well it is suppose to be a point of geography which it is, not anatomy where those other little monsters do breed and spring forth

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Originally Posted by markabilly

How long does this go, before I just need to give out the answer?

To sum it up, clues to date:
where breed tiny monsters?;
donkey jote is closer than he apparently knows;
hair, not fur; and,
it (the name or reason thereof) is not true anymore (well as a general rule)

Quote:

Originally Posted by markabilly

And since when was a dog close to being a donkey??

Nay nay naaay

Quote:

Originally Posted by Caroline

Thinking hair, it got me thinking horse hair? Horse/donkey....kinda similar. I still don't know, but could it be Shetland Ponies? They are tiny, strange and stubborn with riders. That, or Icelandic ponies which are soo cool. I have got 2 guesses in one answer - is that allowed?

Sort of true

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Originally Posted by markabilly

you sound like just another lost angel....carefully refined, yet sullen and aborted.......but closer than you think, so sing a lonely song

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

there appears to be no end to the story of markabilly and his wild hairy ass :erm: :p :

Quote:

Originally Posted by markabilly

close in time not space

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Originally Posted by Tazio

Are we on the subject of ships, or tiny monsters, or :confused:

And the answer is blowing in the wind NOT...........duh
10th April 2009, 05:06
markabilly

Quote:

Originally Posted by markabilly

Congratulations-I thought none of you would ever get this one!!!

Anyway:"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern........I'll tell you about the heartache and the loss of God"

Last but all, the poets of perception
Big D radio....
10th April 2009, 05:10
markabilly

Quote:

Originally Posted by markabilly

Congratulations-I thought none of you would ever get this one!!!

Anyway:"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern........I'll tell you about the heartache and the loss of God"

Quote:

Originally Posted by markabilly

I am always serious and I am hung up and hung over over the names of two british rowboats of clearly insignifigant unimportance somewhwere around the great lakes that not even the oshawa boy knows...to be thinking about hints as to where tiny monsters breed, but okay,
have you people no imagination, no perception, that I must open the door to you with more hints?
the reason for the name is no longer true
donKeys and wild hairy asses are close and Caroline is even closer if she were not another lost angel (and that is a double hint) but the white dove sleeps, yet how many years will it take
finally not only where tiny monsters breed but a place of death for those caroline loves most

well now
10th April 2009, 05:48
Mark in Oshawa

Ya got me...lol...was there an answer in there?
10th April 2009, 13:58
markabilly

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

Ya got me...lol...was there an answer in there?

nay, naaaaaaayy....
10th April 2009, 20:22
Mark in Oshawa

lol...I will come back when I can figure out what I am supposed to get from all those clues. I am used to my geographical questions being more...........understandable to my wee little mind..lol
10th April 2009, 21:00
markabilly

well, i think easy for all his geographical knowledge, done got lost
10th April 2009, 22:11
Easy Drifter

Not only lost but confused.
12th April 2009, 21:57
Drew

So, what's the damn question?
13th April 2009, 03:12
markabilly

Another person who can't read and don't listen to good music
Okay one more hint: True sailing is dead
13th April 2009, 09:39
donKey jote

The Doors.
The answer ain't blowing in the wind cos there ain't no wind.
There breed the tiny monsters.
Chuck the animals overboard, horses and donkeys first.
Booble rules. :erm:
Billy's hints suck. :p :

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13th April 2009, 11:20
markabilly

Just had to cheat did not you?
Even when I spelt the answer out, u still don't do it, just lay there and be a donkey
13th April 2009, 19:35
donKey jote

LA here and be a good donkey, jawohl ! :dozey:

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