On Aug 1, 5:51?am, HK wrote:
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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An Offshore Fishing Rescue

Sorry, but without an overly dramatized magazine cover story illustration,
done in garish colors, this story leaves me unimpressed. The illustration
should include all the usual outdoorsy stuff, like a heroic dog, lacerated
arms, torn shirts, etc., so the net effect is Norman Rockwell on acid.

Maybe someone here can "Chuck it up," with purple prose and the
requisite nods to corporate sponsors.

Screw you, Harry.

I think the tale would be better off "Kraused". In that version, the
MOB is somehow mysterously rescued by the shoreboat launched from a
mythical Hatteras -an imaginary lobster boat. The victim has
technically expired, but the skipper of the lobster boat is married to
a highly skilled physician (much younger and far sexier than most
women to whom guys his age are married) and she happens to be aboard..
In the best seafaring tradition of his fabled father, (who soloed
across the Atlantic in a little dinghy powered by a Seagull outboard
and arrived to a hero's reception at the New York City Yacht Club),
the brave skipper plows fearlessly through the six-inch "bathing suit
weather" waves while his wife works her medical magic on the victim.
The MOB revives, and as soon as he is able to see clearly he exclaims
"Harry? Harry Krause? Remember me? We were classmates with GWB at
Yale! Skull and Bones, Dude, Skull and Bones!"

Yeah, when it comes to credibility, Harry, you're in a class of your
own.
When I have to resort to lying to try to make my life or some story
sound interesting, I'll choose not to write instead. You might
consider experimenting with the same standard, I think it would serve
you well.