MDMD By Jove

John Bailey johnbonbailey at hotmail.com
Sun Sep 30 21:21:45 CDT 2001


Just have to say that these shipboard scenes really remind me of all those 
Asterix comics of my youth, especially the Lascar jumping on a sail and 
smelling the wind. If you're talking stereotypes...Asterix sure has 'em.

What's a Lascar? http://www.bartleby.com/81/9948.html
A native East Indian sailor in the British service. The natives of the East 
Indies call camp-followers lascars. (Hindu, lash-kar, a soldier.)

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