Re: Water in the bathroom.


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Posted by Ed Kiser on March 04, 2008 at 17:15:59 from 64.12.116.198 user Kisered.

In Reply to: Re: Water in the bathroom. posted by Jock on March 04, 2008 at 11:35:27:

Nancy is indeed in a flurry of giving orders right and left reflecting the urgency of the limited time left before the GA is expected.

This is from PM CH5:
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"Hammocks!" said Nancy, and dumped them on the floor.
"I'll get you some vases. Hi! Peggy! Take down the Jolly Rogers
from Dick's bed. She's bound to poke her nose in and want to
know what Uncle Jim was doing with them. I say, Dot, when
you've plunked the roses in her room... Some on the dressing-table...
Some on the mantlepiece and some with the biscuit
tin by her bed... just make sure Dick's got all his things.
... Coming... COMING! Jibbooms and bobstays! We've
only got four hours left..." She was gone and back again in a
moment with three glass vases for the flowers. "Water in the
bathroom," she said. "I've got to keep an eye on Cook and the
stores."
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As for the interpretation of the key statement: "Water in the bathroom" which is not really a sentance, I have believed that considering she has just brought up three glass vases, empty, ready for the flowers, that she is speaking of how to get water for those vases, so she is identifying where to go to get the water, that is, get the water from the bathroom. Nothing here seems to indicate how the water gets to the bathroom, only that it is there.

As for my bringing up the topic, "BECKFOOT PLUMBING", there have been other previous times on this forum that I have simply added to the bottom of some TarBoard offering those two words, then just sit back and watch the explosions. It is amazing that such a simple statement creates such a flurry of entries on the TarBoard. Sometimes when it seems the interest is a bit lagging, or really gets far away from anything remotely associated with AR or his works, I will slip in those magic words just to stir up the soup. That this "lighting of the fuse" still seems to work is yet that much more amazing.

But on the serious side of this infamous topic - From a previous series of entries regarding same I learned of a device that I had never heard of, and that is the concept of using the inertia of moving water, when suddenly halted, to create a pressure that can pump a bit of that water to a height above its normal level - a type of RAM PUMP. Now that was a learning experience, and I felt it quite nice to know of such technology.

There are those that, when I try to get them to read these books, ask why I liked them so much. I feel that the reason is that, by reading these books, and by imagining myself to be in that situation with my Ransome childhood friends, that I have LEARNED SO MUCH. AR has inspired me to go to situations that I would never dream of trying.

My purchase of a four meter catamarin sailboat is one of those steps so motivated by AR. I took that to the lake, rigged it completely from practically a bag of parts, and SAILED that delightful craft in all sorts of directions, trying out the different settings of the main sheet and jib to optimize my movement without heeling to the point of capsizing. I understood the need for the twin daggerboards (one on each hull). I understood the angles of the wind and sail. And back at the dock, I sailed up to it, turned into the wind, and glided right up beside it like I had been doing that for years - but that was my first attempt at such a move - and pulled it off exactly as needed. And where had I learned how to do this? From AR's books.

CF was a prisoner in the Chinese Junk beneath the decks, but he communicated with the Amazons by tapping. Dick signalled "NP" and Nancy saw and understood the message. So I too had to learn Morse. I taught it to my Boy Scout troup that I was associated with at that age, and we all seemed eager, fascinated, and delighted to acquire this skill, a skill that was taught to me by AR. I learned from him, and I passed on that part of the learning to my fellow Scouts. It gave me a feeling of leadership at an early age that I developed into becoming a teacher as an adult.

The GEOMETRY involved in map making in SW, based on the bearings of the sightings taken from certain points was useful when I became a Trigonometry teacher in High School, where we learned the concept of a compass and its 360 degrees, and did some indirect measurements by taking bearings using an actual compass and using the math to make those measurements, showing by practical applications how this stuff can be meaningful, giving them a purpose to try to learn it. And I have AR's mapping in SW to thank for that.

But the truly amazing thing about all this is that the learning process CONTINUES, and that is because of the value the TarBoard members bring with their contributions based on their wide variety of personal experiences. You all have taught me so much, and for that, I am grateful. So I stir up the mud that has settled to the bottom of the glass (reference, the first water taken from Titty's well) from time to time, but it gets people talking, sharing experiences, and teaching all of us what your individual background has taught you. And all it takes, from time to time, is to end a TarBoard offering with...

BECKFOOT PLUMBING

And once again, we are off to the races...

Thank you all...

Ed Kiser, Kentucky




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