Facebook: "Well, _scissor_ me timbers!"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Aug 18 00:56:19 UTC 2013


"Well, _shiver_ me timbers!" certainly makes no better sense, now that few
people "go down to the sea in ships," these days.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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