"Charlie Morgan" wrote in message
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:32:02 -0600, "Gilligan"
wrote:


"Dave" wrote in message
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:41:47 -0400, "Ellen MacArthur"
said:

What's with this sock and puppet conspiracy thinking about around here?

When a man feels he must hide behind a number of masks, you have to
wonder
why he's hiding.

Either he's a coward or has something really valuable to lose.


Or something else!

Dave, who posts under his real first name but wisely witholds other
personal
information (a smart move in usenet) is not exactly the same persona in
real
life as he portrays here. Does that make him a sock puppet? Using just
your
first name isn't really revealing much of anything. I didn't know what to
expect, but I was pleasantly surprised. The man loves his boat, and being
on it.
He's a lot more strident and rigid here than he is there. He's actually
quite
reserved and pleasant. He's a lot of fun to sail with. If there is such a
thing
as a "sailing style", ours are quite similar.

Dave is going to need help delivering his boat to it's winter storage yard
in
Norwalk in a few weeks. I told him without hesitation that I would do it
if I'm
available. If anybody else wants to cover if I can't do it, please let him
know.
I'm not sure precisely when he needs to do that delivery.

CWM

I knew by your keen wit and really nice pictures that you weren't the rotten
Binary Bill or Krusty that people have seen here. Nor is RB the monstrous
troll he makes himself out to be. He's too smart for that. Captain Neal is a
wonderful man too, Lady Pilot is a good, pious Christian woman. It's what
others read into your posts.

Helping Dave is a wonderful thing and shows you are a genuine, caring
person. Thank heaven for nice people such as you.

Gilligan