Steve Holtzman wrote: >> Has Dr. Peregrine Inverbon had anything to say concerning sp*ns*ns, Timmy, and the USCG? Bob said: >Regretfully, neither Dr. Inverbon nor John Winters has been seen around these parts for several months. I believe John's email >address started failing in August for unknown reasons, so he's not on this list currently. John's probably on the lamb from the tax man - the Canadian Tax Man, a very overbearing, overburdening beast indeed. Then again, maybe his business did well and he is off on some tropical island observing scantily clad young things or thriving in the US tax structure. Another thought is that Kaitlin O'Hara is actually John's alter ego -- some kind of elaborate hoax perpetrated on paddlewise by the grinning Peregrine himself (the only other alternative is that "Scarlet" of Potomac is actually Timmy hatching up some kind of weird plot; or the less unthinkable, Kirk our list administrator trying to jazz up what was a slow couple of weeks on paddlewise recently!). Well frankly, I don't give a damn (about sponsons, that is, as I've hot-aired enough with my late night obscure rant). But as for certified Canadian Ballast Rocks, I was one of the original developers of them in the early 80's, bagging them in long cylindrical VCP gear bags for storm-paddling ballast; or even using multiple five-pounders straight off the local beach, beach-to-hatch for impromptu hurricane-force wind paddling (do not do this in a commercial North American kayak). They work great for landscaping and NAFTA demonstrations, too. And I must say, while my "emission" standards are much lower than California's, our Canadian Ballast Rocks really rock man, and totally rule over the inferior american counterpart. Just don't try selling them up here, the tax structure will suck the life right out of you. I do hope John is doing well -- or moved to the USA; or even perhaps partershipping with the Canadian Coast Guard high in the Arctic developing Inuit-based technology, seal-skinned sponsons with grant money from Ottawa's deep treasury robbed from fellow Canadians. Okay, enough. Doug Lloyd (who gave new meaning to the term Rock n' Roll -- way before the Aussie clubs did) :-) *************************************************************************** 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 Nov 05 2002 - 07:00:08 PST
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