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Monday, February 12, 2007

[nilesfunnies] Fw: Dead horse

In Malta, there are horse-drawn carriages called karozzin - for some
reason, referred to by matelots as garries.

After a night ashore, a couple of dozen of the lads from a ship all came
back adrift (late) and were put on report. First one up, asked to
explain himself, explained how he'd got up in time and got a garry to
return and half way back, the horse dropped dead.

This same yarn, with only slight variations, got repeated by the next 22
guys up and the first lieutenant, getting a bit fed up, said he supposed
that the same applied again, for the last one.

"No sir!. Not at all, sir. My garry horse is just fine - just couldn't
get through for all those dead ones!"