Sloop or Ketch?

[Valiente]

Originally Posted by Giulietta

Please, what is a soup can-sized lunker?

Alex, I didn't know, either.

Unfortunately, I guessed correctly. Does Portuguese have one hundred euphemisms for ****? English certainly does.

[Giulietta]

OK... the word in Portuguese is Merda (****), but he called his daughters turd a "soup can-sized lunker"..

Why you may ask I could not add two and two together?? Because we don't have caned soup (there is but no one buys), in Portugal (or any other Southern Europe Country around here with proper gastronomical traditions), where canned soup or old soup is not apprerciated.

Merda:

Caca
Cagalhão
Poia
Cócó
Caganeira
Fezes


are the only I could remember now.....

[sailhog]

Isn't she adorable? Her eyes scrunched up like little fists... God, it makes me miss her...

[ReverendMike]

Yet another thread gone to crap

[TrueBlue]

At first I was a disbeliever in sailhog's bragging rights over the dimensional qualities of his daughter's lunker.

This is because, even though we (like Giu) have little use for canned soup in our food locker, at times when the wind's blowin' like snot, it's more convenient to open a can of Progresso soup, then to simmer stock for 4 hours. Progresso is edible under these conditions.

For Giu's sake, lets say a can of Progresso has a diameter of about 4-1/2" to 5" . . . that's an elephant lunker!

Sailhog's locker must have that inedible Campbells Soup - in 3" cans . . . that's still huge, but a more credible lunker diameter.

[sailhog]

My kids like Cambells "Goldfish" soup, so that's what I'm accustomed to. I was at once proud of her accomplishment, and a little concerned that I wasn't going to pass through the plumbing.

[Valiente]

Originally Posted by sailhog

Isn't she adorable? Her eyes scrunched up like little fists... God, it makes me miss her...

She bears a resemblance to my four-year-old niece Emily:

[Valiente]

Originally Posted by TrueBlue

Sailhog's locker must have that inedible Campbells Soup - in 3" cans . . . that's still huge, but a more credible lunker diameter.

My wife agreed to buy our boat because of its Lavac vacuum head, the attributes of which include the ability to flush a pair of jeans down its ravenous gullet.

If anyone aboard ever has a bowel movement the size of a pair of jeans, I suspect we'll have a medical AND a plumbing emergency.

[Valiente]

Originally Posted by Giulietta

Merda:

Caca
Cagalhão
Poia
Cócó
Caganeira
Fezes


are the only I could remember now.....

I seem to recall that it was the Spanish who were most concerned with sailing and shitting, and in fact named one of their galleons "Fireshitter", probably in reference to the Spanish cuisine of the day, or the fact that their naval architects put the heads too close to the bow chasers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacafuego

[sailingdog]

Sailhog-

you should probably take the soup out of the can before feeding it to your kids.

Originally Posted by sailhog

My kids like Cambells "Goldfish" soup, so that's what I'm accustomed to. I was at once proud of her accomplishment, and a little concerned that I wasn't going to pass through the plumbing.