an unrunnable dam

She is copper-fastened and copper-bottomed, and a remarkable fine ship.

They also have sexually and scatologically suggestive elements nicely offsetting the hallucinogenic beauty.

[…] up the Flag Lieutenant to inform him that a cow would have to accompany the distinguished passenger. Flags was rather horrified at this, so Louis, overworked and slightly irritable, said, "Very well — no damn cow, no damn general — […]