James said:* Alex had said: > Scrathed or unscratched, New Zealand uses black to get their Americas Cup > yachts top go FASTER *<<<The first truly funny post in this whole thread. Mine, about the desirability of visiting an art museum with Matt Broze, was only half-funny in comparison.>>> <snips to Alex and James> Well, I poked some fun at Melissa's post too, but I guess it didn't even get a groan from you for my pathetic Canadian humour attempts, James. And, wasn't Peter's comments about "fluorescent green" kind of cute? Though, I do see from the above that you think of yourself (in context) as "half-funny." I'd have to give it a half-funny too, to be consistent, but I'll give you zero for humility and sensitivity. And zero for your late night rant at Melissa. Mine was meant as good natured fun with Melissa, 'cause she knows how much most of us long-time Paddlewisers enjoy her prose and perspectives. There's folks on this list that have way more class than most of us here -- like Peter O and Melissa -- for example, and the list is richer for their participation. You come across as a very intelligent individual, so why you misinterpreted what Melissa was attempting to communicate is totally beyond me -- but then many things are. Well, Melissa can fight her own fights and defend herself without others jumping in I'm sure, but I really think you owe her an apology. I'll send her a half-appology for my poke at her take on scratches. Hopefully she knows me well enough. I for one have _not_ been able to eradicate out of my mind over the last few days something Melissa said recently in her post. To quote: "Why should I be so anxious to erase these happy visual and tactile reminders of time so well spent in this life?" Truly, we are given one very short life, gone in but a breath. Spending time in a kayak slicing through the wet veneer of our planet's blue surface -- a planet that might have better been called Oceanus -- helps us to account for the moments we are here, time that is so easily lost with our normal terrestrially-biased activities that preoccupy most urbanites. Melissa's posts have only ever even lightly "scratched the surface" of all the available thought provoking prose one could write about when it comes to paddling (and she is one of the better posters in this regard). The cure for black hulls? Wasn't it to lighten up. Amen. Doug Lloyd *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Oct 01 2002 - 17:49:36 PDT
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