Comments on: First there was Flash Friday, and now . . .

First there was Flash Friday, and now . . .

resurrexit — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:19:49 -0800

Maritime Monday. (No NSFW images in this link, but some weeks there will be a random picture or two of a topless mer-person or sailor.)

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:32:23 -0800

BOATS! Also this is especially timely as I was randomly perusing the awesome wiki article on sea shanties this evening.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:48:30 -0800

Dual-Core Pentium chip? How PC.

By: Panjandrum

Panjandrum — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:54:56 -0800

I tried in vain (if not too hard in vain) to find the text of An Ocean Secret by Guy Boothby, but alas, with no success. Here's the opening to Dr. Nikola Returns though:

It was Saturday afternoon, about a quarter-past four o'clock if my memory serves me, and the road, known as the Maloo, leading to the Bubbling Well, that single breathing place of Shanghai, was crowded. Fashionable barouches, C-spring buggies, spider-wheel dogcarts, to say nothing of every species of 'rickshaw, bicycle, and pony, were following each other in one long procession towards the Well. All the European portion of Shanghai, and a considerable percentage of the native, had turned out to witness the finish of the paper hunt, which, though, not exciting in itself, was important as being the only amusement the settlement boasted that afternoon.

I might actually end up reading this.

By: ghharr

ghharr — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:02:35 -0800

Oh shit, this is definitely going to end up with me knee-deep in Wikipedia reading about spanker masts or something.

By: villanelles at dawn

villanelles at dawn — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:38:05 -0800

This is going to lead to me spending the next week watching Riddle of the Sands, growing a mustache, smoking a pipe, and wearing lots of sweaters. The following week I will run away and live on a catboat. This is ridiculous cause it's way too hot for sweaters.

By: asnider

asnider — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:59:19 -0800

They have a job board! With jobs for seafarers! I'm going to run away and become a deckhand of a crabbing boat!

By: resurrexit

resurrexit — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:19:22 -0800

Yes, if you haven't checked out gcaptain, please do.

By: acb

acb — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 03:29:27 -0800

Is this connected to that "seapunk" thing all the young people these days are into?

By: jlh

jlh — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:54:24 -0800

Oh shit, this is definitely going to end up with me knee-deep in Wikipedia reading about spanker masts or something. This happens to me all the time. Great link, OP. Thanks for sharing.

By: kinnakeet

kinnakeet — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 05:58:52 -0800

Thanks to my father the sailor my home is stuffed to the rafters with mast hoops, gratings, fids, ship's lights of all descriptions, hatch covers, binnacles (yes, I have one in my living room in case the house loses its bearings), portholes, anchors, fishing floats, etc., etc., so this makes me feel RIGHT at home.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:02:50 -0800

> the road, known as the Maloo, leading to the Bubbling Well, that single breathing place of Shanghai, was crowded. The Maloo, i.e. Ma Lu 'Horse Road,' was an alternate name for Nanking Road (image here), which if you followed it west led to Bubbling Well Road (image here). /Shanghai history nerd