Mr Mate

 

I'm sure I heard someone say "make it so Number one"

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  1. Your certainly on the radar Tigger.

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  2. no idea what this means, the screen or the make it so comment. from the comment above, engage firing fazers I assume it is a star wars or sci fi movie. doesn't matter, you have it under control... kisses tigger

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  3. Hari OM
    First star to the right... ghep a pu'vengmey! YAM-aunty xxx
    (errr, pardon my Klingon...)

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  4. I love the command Make it so! It's like let there be light, or something.

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  5. Is it going to rain? Do you want rain? Not sure what tigger is asking for

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  6. Janice recognized it - ship's RADAR (on a computer screen). Mr B teaches sailing. He also teaches navigation and collision avoidance at sea, which are useful skills for sailors, and that includes being able to use all the technology available to make navigation and collision avoidance skills even more effective. I was supervising naturally - I love stuff that moves on computer screens. We just stuck a bit of Star Trek jingo in there for fun. (On old time commercial sailing ships the second in command was the sailing mate - or "Mr Mate" when addressed. These days she/he is the First Officer, or Chief Officer - sometimes informally 'Number One' - especially in Star Trek where they employ the titles of old sailing ranks for their 'deck' officers. The person in charge on a ship today is called the Master (short for Sailing Master), and addressed formally as 'Captain'. On recreational craft we tend to refer to the Skipper, and informally people who have been at sea commercially might also refer to the Master as 'the Old Man'.) Confused? You should be.

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