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* SelfMadeLie: The lyrics of [[PatterSong "When I was a lad,"]] have Sir Joseph Porter, KCB telling the tale of how he social-climbed his way into commanding the Royal Navy, constantly emphasizing how this goal was attained by his diligent work... which involved ''no'' nautical experience whatsoever.
-->Of legal knowledge I acquired such a grip
-->That they took me into the partnership
-->And that junior partnership, I ween,
-->Was the only ship that I had ever seen.
-->But that kind of ship so suited me,
-->That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!
-->Of legal knowledge I acquired such a grip
-->That they took me into the partnership
-->And that junior partnership, I ween,
-->Was the only ship that I had ever seen.
-->But that kind of ship so suited me,
-->That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!
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* {{Nepotism}}: Captain Corcoran implies that being related to a peer is what get one a command, regardless of merit or skill. Despite that, he points out can hand, reef, steer, ad ship a selvagee.
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* {{Nepotism}}: Captain Corcoran implies that being related to a peer is what get gets one a command, regardless of merit or skill. Despite that, he points out can hand, reef, steer, ad ship a selvagee.
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* {{Nepotism}}: Captain Corcoran implies that being related to a peer is what get one a command, regardless of merit or skill. Despite that, he points out can hand, reef, steer, ad ship a selvagee.
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** "[[http://www.poetry-archive.com/g/general_john.html General John]]" and "[[http://books.google.com/books?id=JzI_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=gilbert+the+baby%27s+vengeance&source=bl&ots=d1AJ5fHgCh&sig=z29pazZq0CaBLUcKkuKhc1xtmSo&hl=en&ei=ckv7S8b4L5C6NvvG4bEB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result=3&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false The Baby's Vengeance]]" are both versions of the theme of an upper class man and a lower class man discovering they were switched at birth, and play up the joke that is present but somewhat [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in the opera, which is that everyone instantly believes the SwitchedAtBirth story without any evidence (in both poems it's heavily implied that the people telling the story are simply making it up).
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** "[[http://www.poetry-archive.com/g/general_john.html General John]]" and "[[http://books.google.com/books?id=JzI_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=gilbert+the+baby%27s+vengeance&source=bl&ots=d1AJ5fHgCh&sig=z29pazZq0CaBLUcKkuKhc1xtmSo&hl=en&ei=ckv7S8b4L5C6NvvG4bEB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result=3&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false The Baby's Vengeance]]" are both versions of the theme of an upper class man and a lower class man discovering they were switched at birth, and play up the joke that is present but somewhat [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in the opera, which is that everyone instantly believes the SwitchedAtBirth story without any evidence (in both poems it's heavily implied that the people telling the story are simply making it up).evidence.
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The Royal Navy is never engaged in battle.
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The Royal Navy is never engaged in battle. The First Lord's plans for how the Navy should be run include a lot about good manners and correct posture and dancing hornpipes, but nothing about military tactics in any way.
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* WoodenShipsAndIronMen: Parodied without mercy. For starts, the ship is named after a little girls' outfit, manned by a crew of completely sober sailors, a captain who doesn't swear and a First Lord of the Admiralty who insists on micromanaging everything in spite of never having been closer to the ocean than a [[JustForPun partner-ship]] in a law firm.
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* WoodenShipsAndIronMen: Parodied without mercy. For starts, the ship is named after a little girls' outfit, manned by a crew of completely sober sailors, a captain who doesn't swear and a First Lord of the Admiralty who insists on micromanaging everything in spite of never having been closer to the ocean than a [[JustForPun partner-ship]] partner-ship in a law firm.
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** The basic premise comes from Gilbert's poem [[https://gsarchive.net/bab_ballads/html/joe_golightly.html "Joe Golightly,"]] where [[AdaptationNameChange the original version of Ralph Rackstraw]] is a common sailor who loves a woman above his station and annoys his Captain and crew by constantly singing about his love. In the poem, the woman does not reciprocate the sailor's love, and it ends with Joe getting [[DownerEnding thrown in the brig for twelve years]] with [[NoKillLikeOverkill "five hundred thousand lashes"]] every day.
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** The basic premise comes from Gilbert's poem [[https://gsarchive.net/bab_ballads/html/joe_golightly.html "Joe Golightly,"]] where [[AdaptationNameChange the original version of Ralph Rackstraw]] is a common sailor who loves a haughty woman above his station and annoys his Captain and crew by constantly singing about his love. In the poem, the woman does not reciprocate the sailor's love, and it The poem ends with Joe getting [[DownerEnding thrown in the brig for twelve years]] with [[NoKillLikeOverkill "five hundred thousand lashes"]] every day.
