Word For The Day, Wednesday, February 12, 2014-- copper-bottomed

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The United States was the copper-bottomed leader of the financial world for the better part of a century, and the phrase “As sound as a dollar” was understood by all to mean that our currency was the standard for the world. Of course, that was before Obama took office.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I am leaving the cold weather here in Texas and heading to the even more frigid climes of New Jersey. So get that homework in before I head to the airport at 11 a.m. central time.

[Maceman]

There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons
Thundering, thundering all along the way.
Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons,
Each bassoon having it's big, fat say!

--Lyrical excerpt from Meredith Wilson's "Seventy-six Trombones" Read more: Soundtrack Artists - Seventy-six Trombones Lyrics | MetroLyrics

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+++

Sounds like a big parade. Nice work!

[ConorMacNessa]

Under the Obama Regime, the copper-bottomed Ship of State entrusted to us by our forebears has become nothing more than a rat-infested galley; and its once proud, free citizens mere subjects.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Not exactly topical, but here's how they would have to clean the bottoms of ships back in the day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careening. A much more frequent event prior to copper-bottoms.

When a copper-bottomed ship REALLY got going out in a great breeze, the ship would often be so keeled over in the effort that her copper would show on the high (windward) side.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+++

Outstanding work!

[SoothingDave]

Oh, you gonna take me home tonight?
Oh, down beside the red firelight
Oh, you gonna let it all hang out
Copper-bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go round!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+++

Interesting link about careening.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+

Copper-bottomed girls

Sounds painful.

[xsmommy]

safe travel truthy, you will be back in time for the next CATASTROPHIC storm! xsteen en route to NYC via amtrak, coming back tonight and xshub due in tonight from Dallas, hope that he beats the snow. Friday we have to make the trek to SU no matter what, for senior night at the 6:30 pm hockey game. by hook or by crook!

[xsmommy]

guessing it wasn't copper-bottomed. and the song i hate most in life!

[Hegewisch Dupa]

My God - never saw that video before. Between her launch, and the footage of the wreck discovered, and the faces and names of the 29 - i'm all goosebumped and teary-eyed. Damn.

And just for the record, the one way a copper bottom could have helped is if it kept growth from taking hold of the hull, spoiling her hydrodynamics and slowing her down. Then she may have had the speed to make the 15 miles to Whitefish Bay, which the searchers generally agree would have saved her. This assumes she was a wood-bottomed ship in the first place however.....

[SoothingDave]

And he is not amused.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

If you get stuck between home and Syracuse, you are welcome at CasaTruthy in northern NJ.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

A+++ and dittoes on hating the song.

[xsmommy]

Second most hated.

THird most hated.

[xsmommy]

Thanks Truthy! prob would need to shelter in place somewhere around Scranton or Wilkes_barre though. That ungodly stretch of 81 between Harrisburg and B’hamton is DEATH.

[xsmommy]

makes me want to open my veins.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

did you see the alternate version I sent XS a few days ago?