Re: [Paddlewise] Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 07:06:06 -0400

Kissing the paddle, yes.  Licking -- certainly not on the first date.  *******
the paddle?  Only on extended wilderness trips.

Which brings me to an amusing story courtesy of my Uncle Gordie, who spend a
couple of decades in the arctic tracking ice flows from the nose of an old
bomber.  He says that there were some remote weather recording stations which
were staffed by only one person at a time, and of which a few received no
contact throughout the winter other than by radio.  Each station was supplied
with live chickens to provide fresh food.  One winter one of the fellows
manning one of these isolated stations started to mention a lady-friend in his
converations over the radio.  Everyone at first thought that it was a joke.
The fellow talked more and more about his lady-friend.  Everyone started to
think that he had an imaginary friend.  The fellow started spending all his
radio time talking about his lady-friend.  The decision was made to pull him
out as quickly as possible in the spring.  When spring came and his replacement
arrived, everyone was rather suprised to learn that his lady-friend was not
imaginary after all, but even more suprised to learn that she was a chicken.

Richard Culpeper
www.geocities.com/~culpeper


John Winters wrote:

> Richard wrote;
>

--snip--

> When I was
> first
> >learning sprint canoeing, the pull phase of the stroke was described to me
> as
> >******* the paddle, but much to the relief of my girlfirend, I did not
> take
> >this too literally either.  (That being said, I have yet to find a boat or
> >paddle whith which I could not have fun.)
>
> You mean you aren't supposed to lick your paddle?
>
> Cheers,
> John Winters
> Redwing Designs
> Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft
> http://home.ican.net/~735769/




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