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penates - noun pl the Roman gods of the household worshipped in close connection with Vesta and the lares and household genius
I also have no idea what "the lares and household genius" means, if you have the time to explain.
Those Greeks and Romans certainly had a different way of looking at life. In order to stroke that statue, one would have to remove the covering, I suppose. At first look, a person would not necessarily know what was underneath. Was this for secrecy or modesty?
pelorus - noun a navigational instrument resembling a mariner's compass without magnetic needles and having two sight vanes by which bearings are taken
...made me wonder if any women might have used it, in a moment of weakness.
An interesting choice of word. I might've called it a "moment of loneliness."![]()
a moment of wonder?
A moment of WTF?
...This is the Pelorus from the Museum Ship HMS Belfast...
A marine Pelorus often includes a compass, probably a gyroscopic one, or if a magnetic one has two or more steel balls mounted close by to adjust for the magnetism of the ship. It can be used for sighting on navigational markers such as buoys or lighthouse.
At the start of any voyage it was very important to adjust and check the compass by sighting on known positions and bearings using the Pelorus.
Satellite navigation has made calibrating the ship's compass much easier.
Og,
LOL.
I'm going to leave it to you to explain "Swinging the compass," deviation tables and compass adjustment.
I think I'll swing the lead on that one. Any sensible explanation of pre GPS navigation would take too long for this thread.
Locally we have had some hapless sailors attempting voyages well beyond their capacity.
His navigational aids? An out of date UK road atlas and a child's toy compass. The compass wasn't much use to him. He didn't know which way pointed North and he thought he had come ashore near Great Yarmouth instead of the North Kent Coast.
I could never be lonely for an object, I reserve that for the real thing.
I recall reading of one similar idiot who's Nav Aids included an AA book. He was rescued in the Irish Sea: three times. It got so bad that they took his boat off him and impounded it until he took the necessary course with Yaughting fraternity.
I live near the Rocky Mountains. We have similar stories about ignorant, under-equipped hikers who must be rescued from the high country—frequently when someone accidentally realizes that those hikers have gone somewhere but haven't returned.
The main difference seems to be that you can't take away someone's feet and impound them until they've taken adequate training.
My favorite is the deer hunter I once helped rescue after he'd spent two days and nights wandering around the northwoods of Michigan.
It turns out he had a cheap piece-o'-krap compass about the size of a quarter and it was inletted into his rifle stock, about an inch from the gunbarrel, which was made of magnet-attracting steel.
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pellucid - adj 1. admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion 2. reflecting light evenly from all surfaces 3. extremely easy to understand
Carlus, in my thinking you are mistaking horniness with loneliness.