Times are a'changing folks.....last night showing off my sail boat to a new visitor....a fair young thing she was too.
As I got to the engine room compartment I made my usual joke...."....and this is the ladies' favorite part of the boat...".
Bless my trousers...she dropped to her knees...crawled halfway into the engine room...pulled the floatation cushion off the top of the engine and said..."Ah...a Perkins 4154....I have worked on lots of these!"
"Oh?" Says I.
"Yes" she said...."I had these in my lifeboats and as power plants for the generators on my ship."
"Ship?" I smartly replled.
She said "Yes, ship....I am a Licensed Mariine Engineer and spent a couple of years at sea altogether."
I proposed marriage on the spot.
Blender has not got a monopoly on leggy engineers.