It is a very ancient game sketches and manuscripts. "Marbles", to the uninitiated, was a series of simple games played with little balls or pellets made of glass, stone, metal, brick, wood and (you guessed it) marble. Maybe not a better time, but certainly a different time. However, this is for those who remember and those who would like to know how little boys put in their time before they became interested in learning how to create computer "viruses" and how to "make out" with girls. It is doubtful if 1996 boys play any form of marble game for the electronically sophisticated boys of today would consider such activity as not being "cool". Indeed it was an almost "religious" activity since marbles dominated our lives for a brief time each spring and were not played at other times of the year. We have a lot to look into.IN A RECENT ARTICLE on the "in-between" season of a 1920s' Bur-ford childhood, I mentioned the games of marbles as one of the ways boys of the time filled in the "blah" space between winter and spring. But when you look at the people that are registered, dead, illegal, and two states, in some cases, maybe three states. …and I will say this, of those votes cast, none of them come to me, none of them come to me. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers…Ĭaptain Trump:We’re going to launch an investigation to find out. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with… geometric logic… that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I’d have produced that key if they hadn’t of pulled the Caine out of action. & Wondering if others also might be thinking of old Captain Queeg these days, and what Herman Wouk - now 101 years old - is thinking of Captain Trump, I’m outta here.Ĭaptain Queeg: Ahh, but the strawberries that’s… that’s where I had them. He can play with them when he’s locked in his room. Send a couple of marbles - steelies, maybe - to the White House. Need I give examples? Just tune into your nearest tv set, any hour, any day. The action had been necessary.Īre we headed for that moment? I don’t know if Captain Trump rolls steel balls, but it’s becoming evident that he’s lost his marbles. The court said no, there was no Caine Mutiny. Months later, the executive officer of the Caine was tried for mutinous action. “ most unusual and extraordinary circumstances may arise in which the relief from duty of a commanding officer by a subordinate becomes necessary… for…clearly obvious reasons…and must admit of the single conclusion that the retention of command by such commanding officer will seriously and irretrievably prejudice the public interests.
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