Harry.Krause wrote:
In article , Don White says...

*JimH* wrote:
"NOYB" wrote in message
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Skipper wrote:

Hey Chuck, how's it going? Are you enjoying the Nifty Nuthouse nuts and
cap? Got another question for you...What do you think of the following
statement? "We once had a regular poster identified as "Skipper" here; a
non-boater and a negatively oriented trouble seeker. Skipper seems to
have dropped out of sight completely..."

Got another question for you, Chucky, how would you respond to a rather
short chubby fellow sporting either a Greek fisherman's or Commodore's
cap who angles up to you and begs to be your exclusive boat broker in
the NW? How would you feel about that fellow if you gave him a positive
response to his request and he failed to check out the only two boats
you specifically asked him in investigate, a Skookum in Anacortes and a
Northcoast across the bay in Lake Union?



Naw.

Is Skipper back from the dead?

ROTFLMAO.

I don't know if there's more to this letter than the snippet found
here, but
This can't be Skipper.

First of all, this person describes somebody (me?) as being "rather
short and chubby". Now one would have to evaluate "short" and "chubby"
from some frame of reference, or so I would assume. At an average
height of just a whisker under 6-feet, there are people who will never
see the top of my bald head unless I'm sitting down and they're
standing up. Not to say that all members of the general population that
are shorter than I am are correspondingly lighter than I am. I'll leave
it at that.

Assuming the short and chubby fellow this imposter imagines is supposed
to be me (I often wear a greek fisherman's cap in the winter), there is
additional proof that the author cannot be Skipper. While I have met
Skipper in the past and shown him a couple of boats, I never "angled up
to him" (how the heck would I have even recognize him?) and "begged"
for anything. He called on me at my place of business, so any "angling
up" was done from his side of my desk after he sought me out.

If I recall correctly, from all those many years ago, Skipper only
contacted me to
check out these boats *after* he was already working deals through
other brokers on them. I think there was some conversation concerning
the advisability of picking an exclusive broker in the area rather than
asking 2-3 brokers to get involved in the potential sales end of every
boat that seemed mildly interesting from Wichita. Certainly there was
no "begging", (and the real Skipper would know that). Maybe he wanted
a freebie look-see and opinion, prior to hiring a surveyor?

Anyway, the real Skipper probably to this day wonders why I knew early
on he probably wasn't going to be a buyer. It was a small thing,
really. Had nothing to do with the fact that his wife always went
"shopping" while he was wandering up and down the docks looking at
boats. Had nothing to do with his lies about boating through localized
"torito" hurricanes down in Mexico, (in a 22-foot Bayliner lined with
portable gas cans). Had nothing to do with any of those things.

So, to the imposter posting the open letter trying to imply that he's
Skipper, here's a "what would you think" question back to you: What
would you think of a guy who rambled on and on about taking up
bluewater cruising in retirement, but who was married to a woman who
was *deathly afraid* of the water? Wouldn't it be memorable if a grown
woman were so terrified when she put a foot onto the deck of a 38-foot
boat (and it rocked ever so slightly under her weight) that she
recoiled in horror and almost fell down leaping back to the dock? Can't
imagine who that guy with the terrified wife might be, but maybe if the
Skipper imposter looks up the short, chubby guy with the fisherman's
hat he might ask if the guy and his disintersted, aquaphobic wife ever
bought a boat for offshore cruising in retirement.

Final evidence the imposter isn't Skipper: His open letter is dripping
with malice.
What sort of total a-hole would carry a grudge for all those years?
Skipper may be many things, and not all of them positive, but a total
a-hole wouldn't be on the list.