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@ 2009-03-26 – 16:00:57
Barack Obama described his administration as “not a speedboat but an ocean liner. In an open thread The Guardian asked what readers might come up with to summarise Gordon Brown’s Britain.
To sustain the nautical metaphore I tried to think of a ship that represented Gordon Browns Britain.
All that would come to mind was:
Dirty British coaster with a salt caked smoke stack.
(from Cargoes by John Masefield)
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I don't know about diamonds but surely these days the Ivory and apes and peacocks carried by the Quinquereme of Nineveh would have the animal rights people up in arms.
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Pro Keeping the aquatic reference but not so nautical - I would quote Stevie Smith -
Not waving but drowning.
Seems apt enough to me.
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Unfortunately I've done that one many times on both Obama and Brown.
Good one for this thread though.
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A rusty Scottish car ferry stuck on a mud flat.
ianrthorpe
Sounds a bit like the ship featured in the opening titles of Father Ted. Very good metaphor.
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Not surprisingly these replies seem to be focusing on Down The Pan images. Wonder why?
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Sir, whatever John Masefield says that other ships might have on board, the British coasters are always unsurpassable because they have the most imposing figureheads, those nice ornamental carvings of women with two large, uncovered protrusions – thus British mariners enthusiasm to get ahead (no matter what) will always surpass the enthusiasm of any other sailing nation. What is a cargo of diamonds compared with that, I ask. Diamonds can dazzle the sailors and therefore a hindrance to navigation.