----- Original Message ----- From: "ralph diaz" <rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com > routine of cooling off. If paddling with others, just hang on to their bow > and lower part of your lower body into the water. I meant to say UPPER body. It would be quite some trick to get your lower body into the water and brings back the painfully remembered language of James Joyce about one of his characters wading into "the scrotum-tightening sea." ralph diaz *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
----- Original Message ----- From: "ralph diaz" <rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com> To: "ralph diaz" <rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com>; "Richard Culpeper" <culpeper_at_tbaytel.net>; <paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 11:30 AM Subject: [Paddlewise] Whops!!Re: Protection for immersion... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ralph diaz" <rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com >brings back the painfully remembered language of > James Joyce about one of his characters wading into "the scrotum-tightening > sea." > I've waded many times into "the scrotum-tightening sea"; although initially painful, you soon become "comfortably numb"--if this is what you want to call it; I wouldn't recommend this on a nudist beach--even John Holmes would have wished he had a pair of shorts nearby! This type of wading really gives depth of meaning and understanding to the phrase "blue balls"! I wince and cross my legs as I write this...the memories still hurt... *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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