On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:30:02 -0400, Secular Humouresque
wrote:

For the record, I do not *hate* guitars, dogs, horses, beer, movies or
motorcycles. I have a guitar, I've had dogs, I've ridden horses, I go to
movies and I have a motorcycle.

But after all, it *is* a boating news group, and the farther we stray
from boats the worse the signal to noise ratio.