On Monday, January 6, 2014 8:32:27 PM UTC-6, Wayne. B wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 17:36:17 -0800 (PST), Tim

wrote:



On Monday, January 6, 2014 7:02:25 PM UTC-6, Wayne. B wrote:

On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:20:09 -0800 (PST), Tim



wrote:







On Monday, January 6, 2014 4:06:16 PM UTC-6, Gene Kearns wrote:



Thanks Wayne, but things don't look a lot different than when I left.















1) Harry, Harry, Harry,







2) Lots of childish sniping,







3) and no boating content.















I can remember when we had 100+ boating posts per day.....











I won't dispute there were that many boating posts, but I will say the board was very informative and lighthearted in 'the day'...







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Yes, and we had a good mix of interesting people like Wayne "Clams"



Canino, Larry from Charleston, Short Wave Tom, Chuck Gould and many



others. A lot of people stopped telling their more interesting



boating stories after Harry started putting everyone down. I guess



that's all he had left once everyone realized what a fraud he was. The



spoofing and sock puppet epidemics chased away a lot of good people



also.







Unfortunately a lot of folks have moved on to web based moderated



forums. There are some benefits to that but it tends to fragment the



knowledge base and doesn't have the same character.



I barely remember Karen (I believe) who had her giant diesel outboard powered 'frigate' and her dislike for Ficht outboard engines.



And Peggy the sanitizer who had a lot of good stuff concerning keeping bildges clean, odors removed and getting rid of mold.



Sad they're gone.



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Yes, both Karen and Peggie were driven off by U-No-Hoos never ending

stream of insults. Peggie is still a major contributor on other

forums however, and also has a book available:



http://www.amazon.com/Get-Rid-Boat-Odors-Aggravation/dp/1892399156



She is OK with being called the Head Mistress, but the Princess of

Poo, not so much. U-No-Hoo is alleged to have once had an unpleasant

confrontation with her at a boat show. Don't know it's true or not.

Well, that's truly unfortunate. I've looked for here posts on other USNET forums, but nothing as of late.


With Karen it was always humorous to try and decode her Australian

slang expressions.

Yeah, i know. Not your typical "American" humor.