I would have thought that one of the lonely crewmembers from HMS The Good Ship Venus might be communicating with the some similarly lonely soul on the Martina Navratilova using the international Code Flag Zulu...

I'm surprised they are allowed to sell that stuff to children. Wait till the Daily Mail finds out.

Bendover

Can we expect a lovely BOFH to round the afternoon out too?

Nicely done.

So a closed little port in a stormy tea cup ?

We asked, and you delivered. Thank you!!! *wipes a tear from eye*

They arn't lying either - it's actually a pretty cool trip to the ol' historic d*ck yard - I used to live pretty close to it and took family visiting from Manchester there, they all loved it.

Another fairly touristy thing to do is take a boat trip around from Gun Wharf... you get to see the old boats from another angle, and get some pretty impressive comparative views of the modern warships just a bit further along. I could see my house on the boat ride too!! :D

Lol, like the message in the flags.

Paris, because she would!

Captain Coppernob by Lawrence R Bourne.

I found this book, while clearing out my fathers house.

There's a copy on e-bay as well.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Captain-Coppernob-Lawrence-R-Bourne-Oxford-1931_W0QQitemZ380058714056QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item380058714056&_trkparms=72%3A985|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

What else could I use but the Skull & Crossbones

And a tip of the nautical cap to the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard for having a sense of humor about the whole thing...

//Arrrr...Talk Like a Pirate Day is only a few weeks away, matey!

made my friday! Thank you el reg for proving children's toys can be made adult.

Mine's the one with directions to toys'r'us on the sleeve.

"Aye, I've been there meself, me hearties, and I can thoroughly recommend it."

Me too, and I'm in no way a maritime enthusiast - I also recommend a trip up the Spinnaker Tower on a clear day, even if you're not inclined to do the touristy things. The views are worth it.

Nice to see the people at the Dockyard take the article in the spirit in which it was intended ;-)

laughed when I translated those :P

Hint: http://www.gma.org/Tidings/snailtale/flags.html

Pure gold.

...where do you source you Lego guys, by the way? The variety is quite remarkable!

"lick o' the cat"

priceless.

Paris, coz I hear she has a cat too.

Knowing that the flags were using for Signals, can anyone tell us what they are saying in the 2 pictures?

Or do we really not want to know?

Brilliant.

It's Friday!

Cheers

Did you get your tame ex-Jolly Jack Tar Lewis Page to do the flags for you?

Nuff said

As a former matelot I can hand on heart deny that any bum skullduggery goes on in the modern andrew - ever!

If anyone proves me wrong I'll eat my coveted doughnut ring cushion.

... at the range of objects that Playmobile make to fit in their tiny hands.

mmmyep.

Playmobile not Lego.

...simply awesome

>> but with the hindsight provided by its recent online coverage I can now

>> see that we might have chosen the camera angle a little better!

Priceless!!

Thanks for cheering me up on a boring afternoon at work.

Not only is it not Lego, it's not "Playmobile" either. It's "Playmobil".

That's the trouble with pedantry, it can bite you in the arse. Which really ought to be depicted in plastic-figure format etc...

Shouldn't there be a warning on this to switch on InPrivate ?

Lol what better way to finish the week, yet another Reg classic :)

Thats it I am off to the pub...

No, no, this one's quite enough thanks.

Thanx!

Hey! I actually took time to translate those flags!

Though I admit, I had to send the piece of paper into the trashcan... I think a note saying "BEND OVER" is definitely *not* work safe!

What a treat for the Friday. But was it just me who misread historicdockyard.co.uk as historicockyard?

"Left hand down a bit Number One!"

"Help help I can't swim!"

"Shall I throw you a buoy?"

"No don't muck about, I'm drowning!"

/exit Round the Horne...

Dont those pictures fall foul of the "extreme porn" law, whereby performing certain kind of adult sexual acts is legal, but taking, dysplaying, distributing, possessing or looking at pictorial or photographic representations of them is illegal?

... is actually photographed on the deck of HMS Victory. "Victory?" I here you ask. Well you would, wouldn't you. Rather you than me matey.

Very funny indeed

but where's Master Bates or Roger the cabin boy

Obviously the "sea squeal" to the original article..