{"id":52,"date":"2008-04-30T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=52"},"modified":"2014-05-25T07:39:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T14:39:27","slug":"fat-sailors-the-captains-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2008\/04\/30\/fat-sailors-the-captains-log\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat sailors &#038; the &#8220;Captain&#8217;s Log&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=0 align=left hspacing=10 src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/finnegan\/images\/tinypix\/fat_sailors.gif\" width=\"111\" height=\"150\"> Man, sometimes I&#8217;m <i>really<\/i> thankful that Margot asks about things instead of just wondering in silence.  Really glad.<br \/>\nAs we may have mentioned, she&#8217;s been incredibly diligent about recording Finn&#8217;s every feeding, nap, etc. in a pad called &#8220;the Captain&#8217;s Log&#8221; (after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/finnegan\/2008\/04\/buffalo_squirrels.html\">Captain Squirrelulon<\/a>, of course).  A few days ago I was listening to NPR and heard a funny bit about people trying to say things in foreign languages and the trouble that can result.  Later I heard Margot exclaim,<br \/>\n<i>&#8220;I&#8230; &#8216;I like to sleep on fat sailors, the ace up your hole&#8217;&#8230; <b>Whaaat??<\/b><\/i>&#8221;<br \/>\nI&#8217;d jotted down a couple of the funny mistranslations in the log (the only pen and paper within reach), but without giving them any label or explanation.  I had to explain quickly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An American guy had gone camping with some Germans and tried to say, &#8220;I like to sleep on thick mattresses,&#8221; but he instead said, &#8220;I like to sleep on fat sailors&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>An Indian guy was trying to calm down an irate customer and wanted to say, &#8220;That&#8217;s your ace in the hole&#8221; or &#8220;That&#8217;s the ace up your sleeve,&#8221; but instead managed to say, &#8220;That&#8217;s the ace up your hole.&#8221;  He said that this at least broke the tension. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Needless to say, if I write weird bits in the log again, I&#8217;ll take the time to explain the context!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, sometimes I&#8217;m really thankful that Margot asks about things instead of just wondering in silence. Really glad. As we may have mentioned, she&#8217;s been incredibly diligent about recording Finn&#8217;s every feeding, nap, etc. in a pad called &#8220;the Captain&#8217;s Log&#8221; (after Captain Squirrelulon, of course). A few days ago I was listening to NPR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5580,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/5580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}