Re: [Paddlewise] CG sp*ns*ns investigation (and ballast rocks)

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)  :-)



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