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Short Wave Sportfishing[_2_]

On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:38:03 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:10:13 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

Again, my sincere apologies to the group as a whole for being a moron
and adding to the rec.boats clutter.

Geez guy, don't be to hard on yourself. This is rec.boats.clutter
Besides, while all the sniping here gets tiresome, a high quality nuclear
flame war, now, that's entertainment. ;-)

I learned from the best - James Boe, The Deacon, Gharlane of Eddore -
all the Usenet greats. I was even on Usenet's Top Ten Most Wanted
list at one time. :)

Another time - another place. Sadly, I'm no longer up to it. Time to
move on and let the younger crowd run with it.

Although the quality of most flame wars now seem to be sorely lacking
in language skills reduced to being obnoxious and foul mouthed rather
than skilled in the use of language as a weapon. If I thought that
the flame war newbies would learn something, I might get involved, but
my heart wouldn't be in it. :)

Right before he died, Gharlane sent me a private message (we became
friends after a word war duel which we declared a draw) saying that it
was getting harder and harder to maintain fresh and inventive ways to
eviscerate the maddening crowd if only because the replies were one
sentence and involved the vulgar forms for defecation, urination and
copulation.

I felt his pain. :)

Oh well. Onwards and upwards I always say.