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Judy’s Number Game – #75
Authentic Nautical Accessories, and Custom Furnishings
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I don’t know about that wood, Lou….cat seems highly suspicious. I am guessing that is Sabrina. I trust her without question. 😹
Sabrina is very fussy about what wood I select for the stove. After all it is her delicate little body that gets warmed up as she lays directly in front of it.
I think she’s saying, “Wait! I think I saw a mouse in there!!!!”
What is the story on the bare breasted women on the front of a ship? I know what they said it was on Outlander- that it was for good luck- but is that really true? Inquiring minds want to know.
Well for inquiring minds it is a phony fiberglass ships figurehead of a mermaid. This one used to hang in a huge barn of an antiques market called the Oldies Marketplace in Newburyport, MA.
A related story to it was that at boat shows I get a lot of drunken requests to do figureheads of guys wives, but with more up front. I always insisted that I did not do figureheads…remember also that the embarrassed, and angry wives were standing nearby ( almost always) They’d still ask how much, and I’d give them a preposterous figure in the thousands which usually ended the discussion.
Everyonce in a while I’d get someone who persisted, and I’g ive them a business card of a place on a wharf in Newport Rhode Island where they sold figureheads just like the one above for short money. The were cast in something like fiberglass or plastic, then painted. Once in a while the guy in Newport sent me a bit of change for sending in the clan…I mean customer.
Some tits there. Probably help her float if the boat goes down.
It was an oft herd refrain at boat shows, “I’d like one that looks just like my wife, but with…….” The women looked like they wanted to take a boat hook to the guys head. And I suggest an outrageous price, and then offer the name and number of the place in Newport that sold these.
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