Also Sprach Gary Warner :

o As the oft used analogy goes: It's like talking politics at
your local marina bar.

It's more like a few drunken morons in the corner talking politics at your
local marina bar, then one of them breaks the bottom off a bottle of
scotch and runs around the room jabbing glass shards into the gut of
someone discussing whether an anchor rode is a rope or a line.

o Lastly and most importantly, this newsgroup is GREAT for
boating. Almost any question or post you make about boating
gets many knowledgeable and interesting responses.

And eventually, some asshat will steer ANY actual on-topic thread into a
back stabbing political free for all.

Dan



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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he
is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not
make messes in the house.