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Thread #3021   Message #411591
Posted By: GUEST,Roll&Go-C
05-Mar-01 - 08:06 PM
Thread Name: Heave Up Songs
Subject: RE: Heave Up Songs
For those with a scholarly interest in "heaving Up" as in seasickness, you should check out HEAVE HO! – MY LITTLE GREEN BOOK OF SEASICKNESS by Charles Mazel. What a history! It's published by McGraw-Hill. To quote from the back cover:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer silently
The derision of those who suffer not,
Or to lose lunch bravely into a sea of troubles
And by purging end them? To die, to hurl,
No more – and thereby end
The bellyache and the thousand natural revulsions
That seagoing flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep;
To puke: perchance to hurl: ay, there goes the grub.

Now for a chorus of "Dramamine"?