735769 wrote: > > Greetings from Professor Inverbon on his return from a most dangerous > archeological study of Paleolithic Pingo paintings in the Northwest > territories of Canada. SNIPPED who will instruct the instructors in Greenland > technique. I submit this is the wrong question. The proper question is who > taught the Greenlanders? SNIPPED > In the final analyses it should not be the Greenlanders who take offense but > the Mayans and every right thinking paddler should object to the > Greenlanders claiming they invented the Greenland style when in fact all > they did was rename the Mayan style. No doubt they learned this technique > of cultural kidnapping from the Brits SNIPPED Well it seems that our learned Professor Inverbon again is on to something. If indeed the Mayans are behind what now passes for Greenland style, and we all agree to that as no one can refute an Inverbon finding, then we must take the search for the root of the Mayan-turned-Greenland style a bit further. It is a known fact that the pyramids that the Mayan civilization was supposed to have built were really navigational range markers for incoming space ships (GPS was not invented at the time) and that all that is Mayan was taught by interplanetary travelers. Therefore the paddling style the ACA and BCU wish to certify should rightly be termed Intergalactic. Both organizations should use that term. It would get them off the cultural thievery hook with the Greenlanders. And the Mayans would feel better about the whole thing as news of the true origins of the Greenland paddling techique will draw purist kayakers (and their tourist money) to the Yucatan and Guatemala to learn directly from extraterrestial paddlers. Learning the Greenland style closer to its true source in Mexico and Guatemala has enormous advantages: 1. The water temperatures are much warmer; no need for stinky sealskin or neoprene wetsuits 2. Airfares are much cheaper to Central America than they are to Greenland and the area is much closer to Texas so that John Heath can cut down on his travel time 3. Greater variety of food beyond the blubber diet further north 4. A longer, safer paddling season 5. No ice cream headaches while learning the 3,241 different Intergalactic rolls (the Greenlanders got a distilled list of rolls in what was passed on by the Mayan and which numbered a mere dozen or so) 6. Maligiaq Padilla, the Greenland junior national champion, would fit right in as he is half-Mexican ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jul 14 1999 - 15:37:41 PDT
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