[Paddlewise] Fwd: Wrongful intent and Cold Canadian Ballast Rocks

From: <Johnlebl_at_aol.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 02:34:23 EST
In a message dated 12/30/1998 4:22:50 PM EST, 735769_at_ican.net writes:

<< You get what you pay for. Only Genuine Canadian Ballast Rocks (TM) provide
 the stability one needs in a kayak. Inferior clones will only submerge one
 in a false sense of security.
 
 Sad but true there will always be those who hope to make a buck off the
 uneducated public.
 
 Cheers,
 John Winters >>


Fellow Paddlers,

While it is true that you get what you pay for, who would ever want to use a
genuine Canadian Ballast Rock (TM) in the winter?  They are cold as hell!  

One of the primary, secondary uses for ballast rocks in the first place is to
place into ones sleeping bag to keep them warm at night.  Now think of how
danged cold Genuine Canadian Ballast Rocks (TM) are in winter.

You are much better off buying  Ballast Rocks from the tropics during the
winter no matter how inferior John Winters tries to fool you into believing.

Listen, he is the kind of person that entices you into his sleeping bag in the
winter with the promise of warming you up when in fact he is intent on
stealing every last calorie from your almost hypothermic body.

For the love of all mankind, please!  Buy Tropical Ballast Rocks during the
winter even if the inferior ones from Asia are all you can get.  Your very
life may depend on it!

John LeBlanc


attached mail follows:


Mark wrote;

>      I see that the christmas ballast rock market is being innundated
>with ballast rocks of Asian origions at extremely low prices. I suppose
>that it was only a matter of time.......


You get what you pay for. Only Genuine Canadian Ballast Rocks (TM) provide
the stability one needs in a kayak. Inferior clones will only submerge one
in a false sense of security.

Sad but true there will always be those who hope to make a buck off the
uneducated public.

Cheers,
John Winters
Redwing Designs
Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft
http://home.ican.net/~735769/



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