Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"? - Page 391

Alneyan · #**3901** October 7th, 2006, 02:52 PM

Thanks Geo. Shanghaied is the one I was looking for, but I didn't manage to stumble on its definition (I did have the "sh " part, but not the rest of the name).

Slynky · #**3902** October 7th, 2006, 02:52 PM

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geoschmo said:

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Alneyan said:
I've managed to... bah, I've forgotten the relevant verb for "forcing a sailor into joining a crew while at port".

The technical term I believe is impressment. That's usually a quasi-legal version done by a governmental authority. The British Navy practice was one reason for the War of 1812. The less official version is often refered to as being "shanghaied".

Geoschmo

I'm sure Alneyan will appreciate the effort in revealing that word. His grasp of the English language is very impressive as is but once in a while, he needs a bit of tweaking...

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Other more politically correct terms might be, the draft or, selective service...

Rathar · #**3903** October 7th, 2006, 04:27 PM

Just for completeness sake..

A squad of navy folks on a mission of impressment is known as a pressgang. One can also belate the fact that you have been pressganged.

Rathar

Ludd · #**3904** October 7th, 2006, 04:52 PM

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Rathar said:
Just for completeness sake..

A squad of navy folks on a mission of impressment is known as a pressgang. One can also belate the fact that you have been pressganged.

Rathar

Or even, 'pressed'.

Encouraged Enlistment is, perhaps, the New labour term.

Alneyan · #**3905** October 7th, 2006, 04:54 PM

Sometimes, I wonder whose colour you are flying, Slynky; I suspect you would make me walk the plank first chance you got... or that lovely French phrase, "pendre haut et court" (that one's tricky to translate... "hang somebody" is dullness incarnate).

Nah , I don't need no tweaking, but I be forgetting some names because of me broken memory. Then there's my embarrassing habit of thinking about one word but writing another onein French ("vulve" instead of "pulpe"; the translation is straightforward, but the two words aren't so similar in English).

I much prefer a press-gang myself, over the "pressgang" variant. Hyphens are always so kewl; the very name, hyphen, has a pretty good-sounding ring to it, especially compared to the so mundane "dash". Might be I'm biased since my own name has an hyphen... okay, let's go back to our standard "how to kill billions of people in half an hour" talks.

Renegade 13 · #**3906** October 7th, 2006, 04:54 PM

Conscription would also work.

parabolize · #**3907** October 7th, 2006, 07:11 PM

Fire surrendered at turn 56.
Good game Fire.

parabolize

Slynky · #**3908** October 7th, 2006, 09:01 PM

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Renegade 13 said:
Conscription would also work.

Yep! Sure does!

Then again, the more subtle, "Uncle Sam Wants You", poster does the same thing except with propaganda.

Slynky · #**3909** October 9th, 2006, 09:13 PM

The game between me and Landorl has completed with a surrender by Landorl.

In all fairness, the game positioned him to the south of me putting me near the inside ring of the spiral where I was able to block him in to 3 systems with mines while I had the rest of the systems to explore and settle. It just wasn't a fair start for him and a component of the game I wish they had spent time fixing...placing players.

Slynky · #**3910** October 22nd, 2006, 09:58 AM

So, has PBW come to an end?