Bill Tuthill wrote in message

A stroke of genius, Mike. It's the kind of thing that should be on
Pete Staehling's http://www.eruditium.org/pete/ website.

I sent it to Pete almost as soon as I posted it.

I also posted it to MCC's Paddle Prattle under a nom de plume (Joe
Ensphalls) and the MCC'ers proved to be quite a creative bunch, coming
up with a variety of paddling prayers:

http://www.monocacycanoe.org/mccboar...ges/18551.html