M&D Deep Duck 4-6: The Whole Sick Crew

[jochen stremmel]

That's weird.

And this incident:
"On August 17, 1901, while carrying what was described as 900 intoxicated
Paterson anarchists, some of the passengers started a riot on board and
tried to take control of the vessel. The crew fought back and kept control
of the ship. The captain docked the ship at the police pier, and 17 men
were taken into custody"
would be something for Mark's Paracultural History, wouldn't it?

2015-01-26 23:17 GMT+01:00 Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>:

> ​And just for the record, what I think *is* a seaborne coincidence: the
> day before Bloomsday (and namechecked in Ulysses) -- NYC's bloodiest
> disaster before 11 September:  ​
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_General_Slocum
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Damn fine coincidence...
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:53 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> May be coincidental, but the first man sailing single-handedly around
>>> the world was called Slocum, name of father: Slocombe; a-and the cover of
>>> the book he wrote about his trip, published 1900, was decorated with two
>>> seahorses:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Slocum#mediaviewer/File:Sailing-Alone-Around-the-World-cover.jpg
>>> .
>>>
>>> 2015-01-26 22:35 GMT+01:00 Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Good stuff, both of you.
>>>>
>>>> "Knot-tying is the God Particle on a ship. Done badly and there's
>>>> death?"
>>>>
>>>> Nice!
>>>>
>>>> Slowcombe sounds like slow come, like not too bright.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>> Sent from Beyond the Zero
>>>>
>>>> > On Jan 26, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Hilarious names except for the real one, a joke by straightness...
>>>> >
>>>> > Slowcombe reminds me of Ed "kookie' Burns, I think he was, or Fabian
>>>> > or any of those 'singers' or anyone really who runs the comb thru his
>>>> > hair patiently, show-offingly.
>>>> >
>>>> > Knot-tying is the God Particle on a ship. Done badly and there's
>>>> death?
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:26 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>>> >> Pynchon spends some time describing some of the crew of the Seahorse
>>>> on its post-attack sailing. Why not pre-attack? Maybe he didn't want to go
>>>> for heart-string-pulling pathos about named characters being killed or
>>>> wounded? Are his detailed descriptions based on old Navy buddies, or does
>>>> each have his own significance?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Pig Bodine, of course, is an our old friend from V and GR. Pynchon
>>>> describes his real-life counterpart in the intro to Slow Learner:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> "As it turned out, my partner's drinking companion figured in a wide
>>>> body of shipboard anecdote. Transferred before my time to shore duty
>>>> someplace, he had become a legend. I finally did get to see him the day
>>>> before I was discharged ... The minute I caught sight of him, before I
>>>> heard him answer to his name, I swear I had the strange ESP knowledge that
>>>> that's who he was."
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Slowcombe, the fifer, recruited via an opiated Pint. Can't find any
>>>> enlightening references to the name, though "slow comb" makes me think of
>>>> someone who's ineptly playing a home-made kazoo - one of those tissue paper
>>>> wrapped around a comb affairs.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Jack "Fingers" Soames, he of the eponymous Gesture that strangely
>>>> lacks any hostile Intent.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Veevle, "legendary thro'out the Royal N. for being impossible to
>>>> wake to stand Watch." The most Pynchonesque-sounding name.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Pat O'Brian, scribbling' Sea Stories. An homage to the writer of
>>>> historical sea novels in the 1970s.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> And Botswain Higgs,a play on the Higgs Boson. Bo'sun Higgs is
>>>> obsessive about neatness in Knot-work. Is there anything in that that could
>>>> be construed as Higgs Boson-like?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Laura
>>>> >> (crossing my fingers that the feeble cable that feeds my internet,
>>>> which has more than once succumbed to squirrels, manages to stand up to the
>>>> Blizzard of the Century, in full force as I type this)
>>>> >> -
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>>>> > -
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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