The Scuttlebut ensign

[Metabarca]

Whereby there has been much talk of flying ensigns and wearing flags recently (er...)
Whereby most scuttlebutters do know each other but virtually (save those few who are acquainted biblically)

It is here proposed to design a scuttlebut ensign to be worn on the port shroud (or in the heads, or as a beer mat).
What design?
I propose a blue or red burgee (by choice) defaced with the telltale rings of a wine glass, and depicting a stinkie with a hatchet doing a flypast by a raggie with two fingers in the air.

Alternatively, showing a vessel (as appropriate) with skipper bum in the air and head under the engine, SWMBO holding hatchet.

other suggestions?

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[tcm]

Re: The ybw burgee:etiquette

There is already one of these, proudly worn by many on s'butt and mbc. It is blue with gold embribery. send pm to hlb - or find hlb and lookup his details. There is a pic somewhere.

Any vessel at anchor or in port is duty bound to welcome another ybw-er priovided that they don't look too repulsive and on condition they they utter the words "Oink Oink Oink" and proceed to sing the opening verse of My Old Man's A Dustman in the style of the late Lonnie Donegan. The host welcomes the visitor aboard by shouting "No room! No room!"



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[Metabarca]

Re: The ybw burgee:etiquette

I'm gob-smacked!
How do I join? Any painful, vaguely indecent initiation rites? Any funny handshakes? WIll I be able to stick two fingers (one when in France) up at lesser mortals?

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[longjohnsilver]

This is it. About £15 from hlb in a s.a.e.

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[tcm]

Re: joining ceremony

As with most boating activities , entry is not open to all. Oh no. It is strictly limited to those who can write a cheque for the correct amount and send it to the right address in hlb's profile, and also remeber to put on their correct information for where to send the burgee. Better pm him first if want it sent abroad and see if the cost goes up massively for the International section on account of sending burgees by snail mail across france.

Happily, there's no snootiness involved, as everyone get a nice blue burgee. Well, that's not actually true: if you have made over 1,000 posts who can have a defaced burgee which has "1,000" embroidered on it. But I think that is a bit snobby, so i have declined to wear one with "1,000" even though i have made a load more posts than the show-offs who have made 1,000 it just makes me mad this sort of thing it just seems as though they are attempting some one-upmanship of the very worst sort etc etc etc etc

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[Dominic]

Pompous Terms

Surely it must be a flag.

No ensign, burgee, bunting, etc.

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[extravert]

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[tcm]

Re: BUT

needs a pm first cos metabarca is establishing an Italian Waters Overseas Branch?

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[Robin]

But it says MoBoChat burgee not Buttlescut. We should have a more upmarket version surely, dark blue maybe or even white with an appropriately sized finger gesturing in the fly. Could it be made of finest silk?

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[tcm]

oh well you will have to ponce about for ages finding somebody to make one, then there'll be elections and fractured membership, we'll lose all the sailing competitions, the solent will get sold to the germans and only bavarias will be allowed out whislt spanish and french fishermen all patrol the rest of the uk coast and all because of you wanting a different burgee! So, it's fine with a nice blue one. The fingers will have be done manually, and anyway, if the fingers were embroidered on the stinkies would want to come very very close to have a look.

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[Metabarca]

Re: BUT

TCM: I object to your post, sir! ('Italian Waters Overseas Branch'). Are you implying I pee overboard?

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[tcm]

Re: BUT

Oh dear, something is being lost/added in the translation. Of course i made no such insinuation. I assume that like all good meditarranean types, you use the appropriate facilities. Which are then rinsed down by coucil workers in the morning, or discharged direct out to sea via a long pipe.

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[Metabarca]

I must agree with Robin. I have standards to maintain. I want a poncy ensign. Oh my God! What am I saying?! Well, you know what I mean; what's the point of having a boat that gets me to the best anchorages hours after the stinkies, when they're already stuck into their G&Ts and third blondes (er, wrong way round) if I can't look down my nose at them in the superior manner becoming to a Raggie with the sort of Nautical Manner stinkies could never hope to haspire to. It's bad enough having to wear baggy shorts and NHS specs because I'm English.
I wish to be able to risposte to any arrant stinkie: "Sir, you may be pulling all the best talent on the waters, but I, sir, am, sir, a scuttlebutter." That should stop them stone dead. Unless they're hard of hearing (who wouldn't be after hours of the 'gnerrm gnerr, rrrr, bbbbrrrr' from the engines, eh?), in which case they might say: "A mother***er, you say? Well, you don't half look it."
Retreat of defeated party (me).






;-(

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[tcm]

Hm. I don't think that this will be a problem. Cos of course, all the motorboats will be sloshed if at anchor, or if underway will be going too fast to notice, or if in port will be sloshed again, or fixing the boat.

Anyway, I am very unsure of the distrinction between "stinkies" and "yotties" since last night when jimi discovered he had a holding tank. I hope you have had a very careful check round. Ooh, and perhaps jimi could have another check to see if he has got two?

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[Metabarca]

Re: BUT

Oh yes, we Mediterraneans always use our 'facilities' now our Pope allows us so to do (but not on Sundays, and now zey even sell them at the chemists. But I keep my facilities to myself and my lady. I clean boy. I no give them to council workers for theese 'rinsez-down' in the morning, and I leave bizarre sexual practises like using long pipes for the pipi to ze English. So there!



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[Guest]

Precisely! The Mouse and Martini is a MoBo emblem, and correctly depicts our civilised, technologically advanced nature.

You need something more appropriate to your perculiar persuasion: perhaps a Beard and Bobblehat burgee? I wonder can they make 'scratch and sniff' ones, for Jimi..?

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[Twister_Ken]

Definitive ensign design

Plain white.

It represents the invisible holding tank.

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[tcm]

Re: Definitive ensign design

Defaced with a black square blob, if you find another battery?

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[ccscott49]

I think I'll keep my mouse!!

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