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The small boat pitched violently upon the heaving bosom of the ocean, causing Johnson to reflect that, although he generally liked bosoms, he was getting really tired of the ocean's bosom, and wished that it would at least drop from a 44D to a 34B.
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The small boat pitched violently upon the heaving bosom of the ocean, causing Johnson to reflect that, although he generally liked bosoms, he was getting really tired of the ocean's bosom, and wished that it would at least drop from a 44D to a 34B.
Sounds like verse by Patrick O'Brian . . as mis-quoted by William J. Harvey?
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Did either of you have a look at the results of the Pun Competition on that site ? Previous page to the Bosom. Synonym Bum indeed !!
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yep, very interesting reading indeed...
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...but hell hath no fury like a woman scorned so big Johnson set to his task of driving home against the roiling mistress of the sea....
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As man enters the third or fourth millenia of attempting to conquer the sea it is certainly appropriate, given man's preoccupation with self-centeredness, to raise the question of denial. Shrinks, like naval architects, need employment opportunities as well.
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...but hell hath no fury like a woman scorned so big Johnson set to his task of driving home against the roiling mistress of the sea....


But Johnson, being a man of the world, poured himself a rum and one for her...
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