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  • noun nautical Someone who pilots a towboat

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  • Extremely low tides reveal aquatic wonders along the coast this week towboater wrote on Jun 23, 2009 8: 01 AM:

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  • Here’s a straight-faced description of a riverside general store’s wares: “Spectacularly varied, crowded with goods, it is stocked with everything a towboater might need or find attractive — a video, for example, called ‘Oral Orgasms’ and subtitled ‘Carpet Munching Extravaganza.’

    How It Gets There From Here- With McPhee Riding Shotgun 2006

  • Here’s a straight-faced description of a riverside general store’s wares: “Spectacularly varied, crowded with goods, it is stocked with everything a towboater might need or find attractive — a video, for example, called ‘Oral Orgasms’ and subtitled ‘Carpet Munching Extravaganza.’

    How It Gets There From Here- With McPhee Riding Shotgun 2006

  • Here’s a straight-faced description of a riverside general store’s wares: “Spectacularly varied, crowded with goods, it is stocked with everything a towboater might need or find attractive — a video, for example, called ‘Oral Orgasms’ and subtitled ‘Carpet Munching Extravaganza.’

    How It Gets There From Here��� With McPhee Riding Shotgun 2006

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