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The Daily Gazette
    daily.swarthmore.edu Monday, December 1, 2008    
Nautical Terminology: Mediaswain
Nautical types like to call people "swains." If you have some sort of job, you're probably a swain. Refreshment-swain, office-swain, and the ur-swain, the boatswain. The boatswain (often abbreviated, in fine nautical tradition of abbreviations that don't make sense, as the "bosun") is a generalist, in charge of the care and keeping of any particular part of the ship, but of everywhere and everything else. Lines, tar, tools, and (in the golden age of sail) the application of the lash were all the domain of the boatswain.
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The Weather

Today: Chance Rain Showers. High of 53.

Extra cranberries, extra stuffing, and-- my personal favorite

Tonight: Partly Cloudy. Low of 32.

Extra weekend--

Tomorrow: Partly Cloudy. High of 48.

Now there's something to give thanks for.

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Lunch: chicken gumbo soup, tomato basil soup (vgt), chicken nuggets, choice of dipping sauce, curly fries, tofu stir fry (v), baked pasta (vgt), veggie blend, oven roasted butternut squash (vgt), cheesesteak bar, cookies

Dinner: honey mustard & rosemary roasted turkey breast, wild rice pilaf, chilean bean stew (v), morrocan rice (vgt), baby carrots, corn on the cob, burger bar, ice cream bar

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