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Literature | Greenlandman's Galley The lowest type of profanity and vulgarity. "In my seafaring days the Greenland sailors were notorious for daring and their disrespect of speech, prefacing or ending every sentence with an oath, or some indecent expression. Even in those days [the first quarter of the nineteenth century] a `Greenlandman's Galley' was proverbially the lowest in the scale of vulgarity." - C. Thomson: Autobiography, p. 118. Too low for even a Greenlandman's Galley. One whose ideas of decency were degraded below even that of a Greenland crew. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 52 45 45 4E 4C 41 4E 44 4D 41 4E 27 53 47 41 4C 4C 45 59 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01010010 01000101 01000101 01001110 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000100 01001101 01000001 01001110 00100111 01010011 00100000 01000111 01000001 01001100 01001100 01000101 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G R E E N L A N D M A N ' S   G A L L E Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0052 0045 0045 004E 004C 0041 004E 0044 004D 0041 004E 0027 0053 0047 0041 004C 004C 0045 0059 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4152393948463548384735489532413546463959 |
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