LouthePou needs your help

[buffdog]

LouthePou, one of our more regular Milsurp Forum Members, needs a bit of your assistance to help support a worthy cause.

If he is willing to go this far, I think we can have a bit of fun and show our support and appreciation of his efforts.

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/foru...s-a-###y-Snow-White-And-support-or-good-cause
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[smellie]

Worth 20 bucks to me!

 

[woodchopper]

Oh thats funny..... I'll scrape some $$ together.

 

[svt1940]

I am in!

Joce

 

[louthepou]

Thanks guys! We're roughly a 1/3 of the way, so don't be shy, let us know how much you're willing to give to the Bourget Food bank, and we'll watch the total grow. And my anxiety alongside.

 

[louthepou]

Hi folks, thanks to many of you, we're nearing the half way mark. Current total is $415. Don't be shy, send me a PM, support a good cause! (And by that I mean the food bank, not my costume-wearing attitude...)

Lou

 

[louthepou]

Hi folks, the half-way point has been reached. We're over $500 in funds for the Bourget Food Bank, which the Eastern Ontario Shooting Club is helping out. Don't be shy, let's reach our target before September 14! Send me a PM if you want info etc.

Lou

 

[lavoltiges]

hi lou

put $ 25 for me

thank you

 

[louthepou]

Thansk Lavoltiges!

Lou

 

[Steyr1]

I suspect if I belonged to EOSC, I'd be willing to pay to NOT see you dressed in drag!

 

[louthepou]

I suspect if I belonged to EOSC, I'd be willing to pay to NOT see you dressed in drag!

Maybe I'd raise more money that way

Lou

 

[smellie]

I am sort of 50 - 50 on this because it would be good fun AND I like Lou.

Pensions are in Thursday; I'm sending in mine for the food bank whether Lou does it or not.

Anyone else?

 

[Fremen]

Thank you all (And Lou of Course) for donating.

 

[diopter]

I'm for $50.00
Want to borrow my fishnet stockings?
Use to be my grandfather's, when he was working on the 4 mast Portuguese Cod ships.

http://www.schoonersail.com/images/tall-ships/santa-maria-manuela.jpg

video
http://www.patricioclan.org/video/whiteship.html

 

[louthepou]

Thanks Smellie, very much appreciated - by me of course, but really by the many who will benefit from the Food Bank's help. And Diopter, thanks too! I'll gladly accept the donation, but I'm ok for stockings. (very nice ship by the way)

Lou

 

[Fremen]

Lets bring this back to the top.
So very close to getting it done.

 

[smellie]

@ DIOPTER:

Do you know if any of the old White Fleet ships are still afloat? They must have been the loveliest fishing-fleet ever to cross the Atlantic.

I got out to Newfoundland only in 1975, so barely missed their final season.

I think I would have given almost anything to see them out there, at work: the very LAST commercial sail.

Have you seen the 1936 version of "Captains Courageous"?

It's dory-fishing on the Grand Banks with a Gloucester two-master as home base. An awful lack of "special effects" because they didn't have the technology to fake it.... so they used real schooners. Watching that film, there are places which can make you cry (literally): the ships are just SO beautiful.

 

[diopter]

http://www.thetelegram.com/Manufact...45977/White-Fleet-ship-saved-from-scrapyard/1

When I was kid, I thought Popeye was a bad caricature of my grandfather.

http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/view/1115-17

http://www.santamariamanuela.pt/en/

 

[diopter]

Here's one of them.
Santa Maria Manuela (SSM)

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=...xYHgAg&usg=AFQjCNFsW4PGFcD6wWaH7B7D_R01v7KpBA

 

[diopter]

Blog on the white ships from the fishing company that is restoring them.
Feel free to have google translate it.
http://santamariamanuela.########.ca/
in Portuguese

http://translate.google.ca/translat...http://santamariamanuela.########.ca/&act=url
google English translation