So what's all this about, then?

[Caliban]

At which comment Captain Nemo replied "Beens! That's it. That's what the good ship needs, coffee beans to disguise the illegal cargo that those damned sniffer dogs always find, preventing us from ...

[ernknot]

accessing ports and off loading our cargo of cyberbong refills". The crew felt like it was like the old times when they used to run up the jolly roger, or was that when they rogered up jolly?? No matter, the coffee bean idea was putin motion and ..........

[Driver]

No matter, the coffee bean idea was putin motion and ..........

(So how did Vladimir feel about having his motion described as coffee beans?)

... (but getting back to the story) ... with the sniffer dogs duly distracted by the rich aroma of the roasted beans, the crew were able to off-load an entire cargo-hold of contraband ...

[ernknot]

lefthanded screw drivers which are used for the sole purpose of.........

[echnidna]

of tightening left hand threaded woodscrews

[ernknot]

for which there is a high demand in cyber space. " Whats this got to do with dope, sniffer dogs and coffee beans.......'

[Driver]

... demanded young Henry, interrupting his teacher once more.

"You really have to be more patient, dear," she said. "The relevance of all these things will be revealed as the plot develops. It's all to do with imagery."

She took up the story again:
The crew, whilst engaged in offloading the contraband left-handed screwdrivers ...

[Grunt]

the entire crew succumbed to the gas being emitted from ...

[ozwinner]

this story line.................

[Driver]

... and with one voice, all three Captains: Nemo, Pugwash and Crabtree (see, you'd all forgotten that he's a Captain too, hadn't you?) cried:

"Open that rip in the fabric of the universe and get us back to somewhere with a more exciting plot or we'll be in danger of expiring through lack of interest! If that happens we'll have to take to wearing bloody foil helmets and tutus!"

With that, a tremendous ripping sound was heard. However, that just turned out to be Staines - who had over-indulged in the baked beans.

Following hard on its heels however, was a second and distinctly more refined ripping sound and ...

[Caliban]

Raffaele walked in fresh from his unhappy encounter on the new inventors and threw a whole box of his 3-d brackets at Crabtree's feet, saying "they also work eith left handed screws!"
Crabtree scooped them up saying...

[Driver]

..."A pix on your loft hounded scrows!"

And he hurled them back through the rip. There was a bang like the crack of doom, a pause and sixteen jolly jack tars, balls akimbo, dancing a hornpipe, appeared in the rip.

"Not again!" cried Nemo and he ...

[fxst]

fired all foward torpedo tubes and then turned to his men and said...............

[TassieKiwi]

...I wonder if that sailor chappy got my number. It would be good to..

[Caliban]

be rogered by the cabin boy.