Re: [Paddlewise] Boat Opinions & Analysis, was "request opinion off list"

|Thank you for the "thanks" Larry, and others who sent positive feedback.
|Its funny though, because I've had other people tell me I have a case of
|bad verbal diarrhea, while others have said I'm as bad as the sp*ns*n man
|(you know who you are, and thems fighting words!) so I guess you can't
|please everyone, though I always try and warn of a long post or suggest
|deleting it before reading if the subject is of no interest.

Hmmmm, maybe they were talking about me since my dad has always said I had
"diarrhea mouth" or called me "motor mouth."  8-)

|This brings up another point! The last few weeks have been GREAT on
|Paddlewise, lots of diverse stuff, detailed info, and friendly banter. I
|heard via the grape vine that there are those in the instructor fields who
|think PW just has mostly garbage on it. This is silly!

I sure would not want them as instructor's.  This list is the best source of
information I have found on the internet.  Period.  I subscribe to another list
PW is far superior.  Partly its that our ListMom and certainly its the people
who make up the PW community.  When you have informative discussions from Dr. I,
as well as our resident boat designers, what more can you ask for?  8-)

One of the things I like about this list IS that we repeat the same discussions
over and over.  How many times have we had the "rudder" discussion.  Or "which
radio should I get", or "How do I lock up my kayak?", or "How do I setup an
electric pump?"  Generally, I learn something new everytime I read a repeated
thread.  Though there is not much left of the Rudder/NotRudder Horse at this
point I'm sure its very informative for people who have just subscribed to the
list.

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|PS I hope we can all be "ourselves" on this list. Some of us are gung ho,
|macho, some are easygoing paddlers, some are very technical, some are very
|humourous - or at least try to be. Some are spiritual, some are hedonistic,
|and the best paddlers amongst us probably keep to themselves for the most
|part.

The humor on this list is part of its greatness.  Sometimes a new message will
arrive, you see the subject, the author of the note, and just know that there is
going to be some smart a.sed, I mean witty, errrr, enlightning piece of
information... 8-)

As an example, I swear I just saw an note where a WOMAN listed not only her AGE,
but her HEIGHT and WIEGHT! Whow!  I don't think you can be more "ourselves" than
that!

LOL!

I just returned from my SecondHurricaneFloydCleanUpTrip so I really needed and
appreciated the humor I found in two days worth of PW notes.  I just want Irene
to get the hell away from North Carolina.  The people DownEast can't take
another storm.  They have already lost everything, they just don't need the
mental punishment and anguish of another storm.....

Later....
Dan McCarty


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