Quote Originally Posted by kokopup View Post
wom
power train of it's own or are we paddling. If we could harness some of the gas that is lingering around here we could make this a real river tug. I would make you our Chief Gunners Mate Wom but I guess if this is a tug we shouldn't be shooting at anyone. I think even on the Mississippi this would be....
......better than a paddlesteamer."
"Hmmmm' said Wom 'do you think we would be able to make a few knots per hour if we tied Bonny to the gas bottles and fed her lots of grits and then utilise the methane gas she would produce ??? I mean, you're the engineer Bill, you'll have to do some calculations, you know, convert consumption of grits into knots per hour. Like KPH = COG X (Methane squared)"
"Look out folks, the wash from that paddlesteamer The Riverboat Gambler is a comein this way" Yelled Bill. "Quick, everyone in the boat, Elyse...run up the Jolly Roger, Bonny.....eat more grits, Wom....stop playing with that calculator, Helen....swab the decks."
The wash hit all of a sudden and.............

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