WHERE'S THE VALIUM...

A nightmare vision writhes before my eye:
A monstrous shoal of Bobsprits sailing by...


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screening tubes in a d type boiler fool.


"Rick" wrote in message
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Sidney Greenstreet wrote:
Explain those preheater downtubes one more time.

??? Perhaps you need to explain them. Or keep better track of your
paranoid fantasies.

Methinks you are truly delusional now ...

But still loser wannabe ...

Rick

Sidney Greenstreet wrote:
screening tubes in a d type boiler fool.

"screening tubes" ???

"Preheater downtubes" ???

Screen tubes, yes, but whats a screenING tube or a "preheater downtube"
??? You love to nitpick terminology about which you have absolutely ZERO
knowledge and now you pretend to know something about boilers and write
terms like that??

What a loser wannabe you are, Nil.

And you really do need to sort out the antagonists in your paranoid
fantasy life. Such terms are the product of your own dementia.

Hell, you can't even keep your own identity straight and now you are
attributing your own delusional writing to me ... what a loser.

Rick

At MLW, MHW, MLLW, MHHW , LAT, MLLHW, or at LT?

Scotty

"Donal" wrote in message
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"Sidney Greenstreet" wrote in message
ink.net...

It's obvious that Bobsprit sails exclusively for escapism but to what
depth?

I dunno! What's the deepest water within three miles of the Long Island
shore?



Regards


Donal
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Scott Vernon
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"Sidney Greenstreet" wrote in message
ink.net...
Sailing, as almost any endeavour, can be looked at as serving either of
two
purposes. The first, and most common, is simply a form of escapism. It can
be an escape from the toils, drudgeries or stress of everyday life. The
second purpose is much more directed. That purpose is character building
and
personal challenge.

It's obvious that Bobsprit sails exclusively for escapism but to what
depth?
He has no regular job and really no stress in life. So what is it that he
escapes from? Himself. He goes back and forth to the dock and in and out
of
the harbor - several times a day. It's his life and he has little to show
for it. For him there's no challenge, no building of skills, no building
of
character. Why? Because there is nothing to put those acquisitions in.
There's nobody there to see him run an inlet when the tide changes, so why
bother? It's better if people just see him in his boat whether tied to the
dock or motoring around the pier.

You see, Bobsprit can only "find" himself in the material things he owns
and
the facade he puts on for others. He chides others for working, realizing
little that others find productive achievement quite satisfying. He chides
others for owning lesser craft, not understanding that a boat is simply a
tool, an extension of the sailor's ability and not the other way around.
His
only metric for the world is "what do others think".

It must be a living hell to go about life adrift in such shallow miseries.
For some they never know it, so it follows ignorance is bliss. For others,
such as Bobsprit, he knows. He only takes a quick glance in the mirror,
never a hard look. The Long Island Sound is a true allogory to this
hollow
shell of a person.

Sid