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Sweet Pete

Sammy

StewartyMac

KnightswoodBear

GordieBoy80

DomDom

Bert Racoon

Fudge

Sloop John B

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Glen Sannox

Tryfield

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Addie

Dunning & Dunning

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Geoff

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Sloop John B has to be there as the sun will be over the Yard Arm.

I'd like say i'd understand the reference but there is a distinct whoosing sound. Provided I don't get too smashed at my five aside team's last game night out, I should be fine for a two day bender. Anyone know a good youth hostel location wise?

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There's the Euro Hostel on Clyde Street (looking on to the Clyde, funnily enough) that's about 2 minutes from Times Square (the official start point) and about 5 minutes from Dow's (the unofficial start point and official end point). If beds are still available then i'd imagine it'd be under £20 for the Saturday night.

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I'd like say i'd understand the reference but there is a distinct whoosing sound. Provided I don't get too smashed at my five aside team's last game night out, I should be fine for a two day bender. Anyone know a good youth hostel location wise?

Yarr, it be a nautical reference.

The Sun is over the yardarm

The yardarms on a sailing ship are the horizontal timbers or spars mounted on the masts, from which the square sails are hung. (The word yard here is from an old Germanic word for a pointed stick, the source also of our unit of measurement.) At certain times of year it will seem from the deck that the sun has risen far enough up the sky that it is above the topmost yardarm. In summer in the north Atlantic, where the phrase seems to have originated, this would have been at about 11am. This was by custom and rule the time of the first rum issue of the day to officers and men (the officers had their tots neat, the men’s diluted). It seems that officers in sailing ships adopted a custom, even when on shore, of waiting until this time before taking their first alcoholic drink of the day.
Can we have a drink? Yes, the sun is over the yardarm!

I really don't know whether to come or not

Wear a cup if you do.

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