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Default The High Cost of Cruising

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:46:38 +0700, FoolKiller
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Wilbur Hubbard


And there is Wilbur, The Old Man of the Sea, The Master Mariner, the
individual who specifies the correct length of a set of oars was
"short enough to fit in the boat" and many other gems of nautical
wisdom.

Too bad you have never been in a boat. Maybe you would have learned a
tiny bit about sailing and instead of being the buffoon of RBC you
might be able to scale the heights of being "someone who is not too
bright". Far above being referred to as "Wilbur the Dummy".

Say, for instance, if you had said that "oars should be long enough to
reach the water", people would have thought, "well, he isn't the
brightest light on the Christmas tree" instead of "Stupid old Wilbur
done did it again". One thing I'll give you credit for though. You
really work at being stupid. Nobody could be as dumb as you are
without a tremendous amount of effort.



A fool who knows his foolishness is wise
at least to that extent, but a fool who
thinks himself wise is a fool indeed.



Cruel, cruel...
But, very good