Shiver me timbers!

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Shiver me timbers!

Post by neufer » Tue Sep 20, 2011 2:56 pm

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?page=&gallery_id=2&image_id=631 wrote:

<<Avast, me hearties! Thar be two complex craters near the top o' this image. Inside the one top center be a central peak resemblin' the Jolly Roger! Be ye afeared? Nay, land lubbers, fear not! 'Tis just how yer eye be seein' the shadows. Shiver me timbers! Yarrr, 'tis just a peak, not the location of yer buried treasure. Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day from MESSENGARRR.>>
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Re: Shiver me timbers!

Post by Ann » Tue Sep 20, 2011 4:29 pm

:clap: :clap: :clap:

And that's a swan, lying on its back looking up, in the lower right corner! Or maybe it's the Omega Nebula growing all pale with fear as it crashed (or sank gently, making no crater) onto this (moon?) (asteroid?).

Can't imitate the wonderful old-fashioned sailor-slang, though. I don't mind if you give us some more of it, Art! :D

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Re: Shiver me timbers!

Post by neufer » Tue Sep 20, 2011 4:37 pm

Ann wrote:
Can't imitate the wonderful old-fashioned sailor-slang, though. I don't mind if you give us some more it, Art! :D
'Tweren't me

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Re: Shiver me timbers!

Post by harry » Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:28 am

Hello Neufer

How's it going?

Be back later
Harry : Smile and live another day.

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