Three sheets to the wind, when you let go the port sheet, starboard sheet and main sheet you are totally out of control... drunk, fubar. RODNEY-ED; here in New England, anywhere north of Cape May and Atlantic City, New Jersey, really this should be internationally known, when a motor vessel swamps your sail boat by passing to close or cutting across your bow at inappropriate speed, you've been Rodney-ed. EG, the last scene in Caddy Shack, Mr. Dangerfield drops the anchor on (through) the judges deck and says "you scratched my anchor!". BUTTHOLE; a kink in the line, the small loop that inevitably forms to prevent your line from going through a block at the most inopportune time.
My mother, who could, on occasion, be a bit of a loose canon (especially when her multitude of children didn't toe the line or pipe down), used language that was chock a block full of nautical phrases.
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Tow rag. A fabulous insult. Also a piece of silk towed behind the boat everyone would use to wipe their port hole with.
I wasn't aware that was a nautical term! Our forbears were a colourful, scathing lot, weren't they?
Three sheets to the wind, when you let go the port sheet, starboard sheet and main sheet you are totally out of control... drunk, fubar. RODNEY-ED; here in New England, anywhere north of Cape May and Atlantic City, New Jersey, really this should be internationally known, when a motor vessel swamps your sail boat by passing to close or cutting across your bow at inappropriate speed, you've been Rodney-ed. EG, the last scene in Caddy Shack, Mr. Dangerfield drops the anchor on (through) the judges deck and says "you scratched my anchor!". BUTTHOLE; a kink in the line, the small loop that inevitably forms to prevent your line from going through a block at the most inopportune time.
Thanks for the gems! Indeed, “Rodneyed” should be adopted globally, both in yachting fraternities and society as a whole. I shall spread the word!
My mother, who could, on occasion, be a bit of a loose canon (especially when her multitude of children didn't toe the line or pipe down), used language that was chock a block full of nautical phrases.
@@mariannenicholas1919 You have my sympathies. My mother was cut from the same cloth. She often had me over a barrel and would give me a lashing.