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Can We Forgive Him?
The London Post reports the following—
There was fighting in the fo’c’sle; and the aggressor, a hard-faced, hard-fisted sailor man from Rotherhithe, was called upon to explain.
“That square-headed Swede miscalled me,” he bellowed. “He said I was an Irishman, and I’m not. Me mother was a good Mexican lady and me father was two marines from Chatham!”
The explanation cordially accepted.
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Pithole Filosophy
One time I got mad at a sassy kid; I said, “There is enough brass in your face to make a large kettle.”
He said “Yes, and there’s enough sap in your head to fill it.”