HMS Metaphor Edit 1.1ellajam,crow

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No, this I think will not go down without a fight.

"but you can be cast adrift on ANYTHING if you have no power or navigational aids that work"

No you can be adrift on "ANYTHING if you have no power or navigational aids that work"Je ne comprend pas la difference. Here comes Abu.

cast
[kast, kahst] Show IPA
verb (used with object), cast, cast·ing.
1.
to throw or hurl; fling:

The implication is the object being "cast" moves from where it was originally (and this is physically, not metaphorically), to somewhere else.
So something cannot be considered cast from itself, simply because it has become adrift (loss of navigational ability). If you get my drift.

Take that Admiral Hastings!

"...two years after Hastings' appointment to Excellent, Sir John Briggs, Reader to the Board, happened to show the examination paper to an Admiral on the Board."

"Do you know, it is very strange, but I do not understand all this. Pray, Sir, what is the meaning of 'impact'?" "I rather think that it means the force of the blow", replied Briggs. The Admiral turned to another Naval Lord, Sir John Beresford, and asked him: "What in the name of good fortune is meant by 'initial velocity'?" "I'll be hanged if I know", answered Sir John, "but I suppose it is some of Tom Hastings' scientific bosh; I'll tell you what I think we had better do - we'll go at once to Lord de Grey (First Lord) and get that Excellent paid off."
However, the First Lord replied: "I am afraid, my dear Beresford, I cannot sanction it, for you have no idea how damned scientific that House of Commons has become.""

Ed- You see the House of Commons had all become mycologist!
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As regards Charybdis, and Scylla, when not preforming as singing duo at the local pub (you pick the pub), one is a pool of whirled peas, and one a snapping semi; colon! Thus one can neither sail through nor by, but only between, and this feet has been done butt once, thus the end or stern, if you prefer, of the HMS Matador...er Metaphor now sits listening to Davy Jones' sing renditions of old Monkeys' tunes ad nauseam.

dale

Aha! The hollow man I have considered...but the narrow man?
Cast off(nautical)? Cast iron? Castaway? Cast clay? Cast off( religious)? Cast adrift? Hmmm...I see no ships!
I am cast adrift upon a glassy sea, where nought but sea see I, and thou sees nought of me.
Cast adrift? Probably a cliche in the Royal Lancs Yacht Club
Wiki: A castaway is a person who is cast adrift or ashore. While the situation usually happens after a shipwreck, some people voluntarily stay behind on a deserted island, either to evade captors or the world in general. A person may also be left ashore as punishment (marooned).

Eden's Bridge
"Open Sea"
Cast adrift, there's time for me
To think of all that I have been, that I have been
To ponder upon your word to me
To own the gift you've given to me
Best and bleaggghhh,
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